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  • bullfinchbullfinch Posts: 692
    agnasia said:
    Oh that's pretty @bullfinch!  Do you think it would be happy in a pot?

    Ooh sorry, I'm not sure,  it isn't on the David Austin web page for being suitable for containers. But they do have a few other pink ones there which they say are happy in pots. It's so hard to choose isn't it?!  :)

  • agnasiaagnasia Posts: 154
    Thanks @Marlorena, it is so helpful to have feedback, especially when you have grown them yourself.  So of those five St Ethelburga would best suit a pot?

    Ha ha why not @ElbFee, the more the merrier!

    It is so hard to decide @bullfinch, hence my list getting longer rather than shorter!! :D
  • WatsoniaWatsonia Posts: 134
    My garden walk through this morning was very disappointing. My “Anna Ford” was doing so well, lots of lovely growth and lots of lovely buds starting to swell. This morning, it was decimated. All new growth gone, all buds disappeared. 

    Yes, deer have gotten into the garden again. I had raised all the fences, and really thought I cracked the deer-proving this year. I think I might have to give up on roses, unless it’s right by the back door, it is just so disheartening  :'(
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I know how you feel @Watsonia, I had the same problem at my last house until OH put a high fence around part of it. The garden was too big and complicated to fence it all but at least I had a bit I could grow roses and flowers in. Sending sympathy.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Albertine. Vigorous rambler, interesting pink colour, nicely scented ... But the flowers die an ugly death. Even worse in damp weather. I inherited one. But didn't keep it.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited April 2023
    Watsonia said:
    , deer have gotten into the garden again. 


    Human hair kept the deer off my runner beans.  But they are more determined in late pregnancy and lactating.  I tried leaving a radio on.  The batteries ran out.  I eventually erected a plastic netting fence as an experiment.  It worked, so it has remained.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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