Thank you, all. I wonder how Alnwick is going to shape up. My new potted one is so far quite narrow and orderly, but I don't know if that is luck or not.
Emily Bronte is also narrow, but not quite as much as newbie's QoS. I like that. It looks so well-mannered.
My Emily Bronte is not narrow but well behaved. When I bought it, I didn't think of it much, but now I like it. Its flowers have a special grace and beauty.
@Mr. Vine Eye, how are tadpoles doing? I wish I had a pond and so much life in it.
OK that is half the roses mulched, as well as most of the clematis.
The sharp frost from last week has certainly pushed the roses back here, though I can say that The Poet's Wife' is the furthest ahead. Is it normally an 'early riser"?
@newbie77 - tadpoles are doing well, getting bigger every day. I’ve just brought home the tank of them that I had taken to school so we’ve got two lots in the living room now! Looking after them here over Easter and then I’ll take them back.
They survived the car journey fine. I’m sure it will have been the ride of their lives! Wonder what they thought was going on.
An interesting additional aspect of this tadpole rearing is that the oxygenating pond plants are growing nicely in the tanks too. It’s like having an indoor pond! I’m going to pop to the allotment to gather some algae from the pond. Tadpoles will eat it at this stage and I thought it would be a good, non-rotting holiday food for when we’re away next week. I could take any uneaten bits out and go back to cucumber slices again when we get back.
While I’m there I can check on the pond and see how all those tadpoles are doing. Must be a thousand in there.
Lovely and warm here today, roses are looking much perkier.
Had a mild but wet day today and
another frosty spell coming up. Whoever has the spring, please share.
Called TCL today as my rose order is awol. No reply yet. Will have to
ask them to ship bare roots in May. Whish I had the discipline of @OWD
to order and plant only in autumn.
Almost none of my roses ever grow
basals, @WAMS, therefore I am very fond of every single one. I plant
them quite deep, 8-10cm, to protect the graft. Maybe I shouldn't dig
that deep. But then, the frost pushes the roses up in winter. On
upright DA's I can recommend Wollerton Old Hall and The Pilgrim, No
slender base though.
I am happy with Bouquet Parfait @Imprevu. Had it in a really shady spot and moved it because I want
more of the clustered bloomes. I had Florence in a pot where it
remained pretty small. Now soiled it. Thank you for pointing out that
it could start to climb. A good excuse to get an Obelisk.
Cannot figure out how to cut my
Wisteria so I don't. Still no buds here. Looking forward to yours @Mr Vine Eye and @JessicaS.
Some help please: what do HT and ETA
stand for? I can decrypt all the other abbreviations.
Trying to chase the winter away with
summer vibes featuring Scepter'd Isle.
@ElbFee, HT is Hybrid Tea and ETA I only know as Expected Time of Arrival .
WAMS I thoght that your EV looks like my DdeC too. Just lovely
March
being nearly over I post this as a record, pics taken 4th, 21st and
30th. I guess temperatures have been relatively mild but please please
could the rain stop soon.
Sorry, ETA means "edited to add" (or elsewhere estimated time of arrival) and HT means hybrid tea. That's interesting about basals. The graft of my Henri Delbard has become almost entirely exposed through compost shrinkage and it has not one but two new shoots from the base! I had the idea that burying the graft encouraged basal growth but seems that's codswallop.
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Emily Bronte is also narrow, but not quite as much as newbie's QoS. I like that. It looks so well-mannered.
@Mr. Vine Eye, how are tadpoles doing? I wish I had a pond and so much life in it.
@Nollie, That Euphorbia was substantial!
Yes they will turn green.. or you can prune the stems back if you wish..
All ready for planting..
They survived the car journey fine. I’m sure it will have been the ride of their lives! Wonder what they thought was going on.
An interesting additional aspect of this tadpole rearing is that the oxygenating pond plants are growing nicely in the tanks too. It’s like having an indoor pond! I’m going to pop to the allotment to gather some algae from the pond. Tadpoles will eat it at this stage and I thought it would be a good, non-rotting holiday food for when we’re away next week. I could take any uneaten bits out and go back to cucumber slices again when we get back.
While I’m there I can check on the pond and see how all those tadpoles are doing. Must be a thousand in there.
Lovely and warm here today, roses are looking much perkier.
Had a mild but wet day today and another frosty spell coming up. Whoever has the spring, please share. Called TCL today as my rose order is awol. No reply yet. Will have to ask them to ship bare roots in May. Whish I had the discipline of @OWD to order and plant only in autumn.
Almost none of my roses ever grow basals, @WAMS, therefore I am very fond of every single one. I plant them quite deep, 8-10cm, to protect the graft. Maybe I shouldn't dig that deep. But then, the frost pushes the roses up in winter. On upright DA's I can recommend Wollerton Old Hall and The Pilgrim, No slender base though.
I am happy with Bouquet Parfait @Imprevu. Had it in a really shady spot and moved it because I want more of the clustered bloomes. I had Florence in a pot where it remained pretty small. Now soiled it. Thank you for pointing out that it could start to climb. A good excuse to get an Obelisk.
Cannot figure out how to cut my Wisteria so I don't. Still no buds here. Looking forward to yours @Mr Vine Eye and @JessicaS.
Some help please: what do HT and ETA stand for? I can decrypt all the other abbreviations.
Trying to chase the winter away with summer vibes featuring Scepter'd Isle.
A winter victim this one, dead I think.