@Alfie_, I have The Poet's wife as shrub. My main complaint is that it grows quickly and then flops. May be as a standard it will be more manageable. Flowers are beautiful yellow, fragrant and rebloom is quite good.
I also have Gabriel oak as shrub. Plant is on smaller side as compared to usual Austins but I have it in a very crowded position. Rebloom is not as good as TPW.
Has anyone ordered bareroots from DA now that they have opened for orders? I am going to get Eglantyne just in case they discontinue it. Now sure which other "bareroot only" ones are nice. Maid Marion? Hero? Sweet Juliet? Hmm..
@Jess91 Thank you. The dark foliage plant is an oxalis triangularis. I have it as a houseplant, but it’s good as a border edging and in pots in the summer. Here it is with some Imperata cylindrica grass.
Gosh, your Chandos looks 200% better than mine; all the shiny leaves! I wonder if mine needs more sun. It certainly needs to move to centre stage over the winter. Mine is buried in a border and too difficult to sniff. Are you TLCing yours? @Alfie_
@Alfie_ I have poets wife, i like the flowers and the lemony fragrance, mines quite spindly and so flowers flop over, hoping next year will better. All my loving in pot Double delight in pot, the red on this one is fantastic if you zoom in. Unknown white with liquorice fragrance. Iceberg doing alot better now.
Plenty of lovely roses today and some planting artistry too..
Next Spring, if I'm still doing this, I think we might need an extra thread for roses.. just a thought for now..
'Frilly Cuff'.. 'Lambada'.. surprisingly low thorn for a Kordes.. ..good clusters too.. I like its Australian name 'Mango Tango'.. 'Sally Holmes'.. 'Mrs. John Laing'.. 'Sweet Siluetta'.. 'Tottering..' Diascia personata...
@newbie77 thanks for the info, very useful. I have Gabriel Oak as a shrub too but too early to judge as only got it this winter just gone. TPW sounds awesome. Others have also said good things about it before. There are no pictures anywhere of these two as standards even on DA!
@ElbFee - I'm not sure about a fortune - is it that sought after? I am tempted to start selling my cuttings as I'm getting better at it. I just want to be sure I can do it legally. Seems to stay on all US websites so long as it’s 20 years after it has been introduced but can’t find anything specifically for UK?
@SalixGold - nothing particularly during this season except a deep watering once per week and a slow release fertiliser twice (spring and mid summer). I did however nurture it a lot in a pot last year. I find a full year in a roughly 35cm x 35cm pot really brings them on quickly. I bought it very early in the season (end of April). Here it is in mid May last year potted up:
Produced dazzling displays last summer in that pot:
Each one the size of my fist. Huge. Not got one this size since moving it out.
Here it is in November going into the ground. Huge thick stems the thickness of my fingers. Rootball was the size of the pot.
In spring I then just cut it back by 2/3rds. When I went to Harkness this year I said that since moving it to the ground the blooms are smaller and the owner chipped in and said cut it back almost to the ground for large blooms so will try that next spring. In a pot you obviously need to water. I still did the two slow release fertilisers but I also gave it a liquid feed once per week.
If I like the larger Austin flowers and also scented ones do you think I should go for Jubilee C now it is available again for pre order as a bareroot? Any comments on anyone that has it? Would you recommend it? Thanks
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I also have Gabriel oak as shrub. Plant is on smaller side as compared to usual Austins but I have it in a very crowded position. Rebloom is not as good as TPW.
All my loving in pot
Double delight in pot, the red on this one is fantastic if you zoom in.
Unknown white with liquorice fragrance.
Iceberg doing alot better now.
Souvenir de St Anne’s is getting into its third flush. Photos of the same flower just over an hour apart
Next Spring, if I'm still doing this, I think we might need an extra thread for roses.. just a thought for now..
'Frilly Cuff'..
'Lambada'.. surprisingly low thorn for a Kordes..
..good clusters too.. I like its Australian name 'Mango Tango'..
'Sally Holmes'..
'Mrs. John Laing'..
'Sweet Siluetta'..
'Tottering..'
Diascia personata...
said good things about it before. There are no pictures anywhere of these two as standards even on DA!
Produced dazzling displays last summer in that pot:
Each one the size of my fist. Huge. Not got one this size since moving it out.
Here it is in November going into the ground. Huge thick stems the thickness of my fingers. Rootball was the size of the pot.
In spring I then just cut it back by 2/3rds. When I went to Harkness this year I said that since moving it to the ground the blooms are smaller and the owner chipped in and said cut it back almost to the ground for large blooms so will try that next spring. In a pot you obviously need to water. I still did the two slow release fertilisers but I also gave it a liquid feed once per week.