@Alfie_ yes lots of small blooms from tiny buds. My BN lived in a 10L pot for 2 years before I planted it out! Check under your pots for slugs and snails too.
Yes I think it might be an OK combination. I’m trying to liven up the soft orange and lemon theme surrounding my rear patio @owd potter which is all rather tastefully coordinated and possibly a tad boring!
Thanks @Tack, still stuff to do and areas to sort out, but the garden is finally approaching that coveted mature stage.
BTW I think I might have solved the ‘how to support a standard and reinforce the rose umbrella stand’ conundrum! Those two square stakes on LEH are only an inch wide but I pushed them in vertically near the pot rim and gently bent inwards to tie at the top so they are tensioned and very sturdy. I’m going to repeat that with my big GdF standard with four stakes tied into the umbrella at the top, maybe with some cross bars lower down. Basically, constructing an obelisk type support under the umbrella post installation. Will let you know how that goes..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
My mother has pointed out that I have ordered a pink Camellia - which is true. However, she insists that it will not go with the orange Westerland rose. So it seems that the suggestion of @Marlorena with The Lark Ascending is now her preferred choice - with its apricot colour.
So in the words of mum ... "You should listen to the 'Rose Lady'". I always wondered what it was like to be bestowed with an epithet!
@PeterAberdeen That's nice of your mum, I don't mind being a rose lady - can't do much else to be honest - ... but I feel there's a snag there in that, at least where I am, I don't know any pink Camellia that will be flowering at the same time as one of those shrub roses.. Camellias are usually finished by late May, just as the roses start.. so I'm not sure you, or Mum, need worry about that aspect unless things are different in Aberdeen..
I’d appreciate some advice. Two boscobels have very dead looking stems. I’m planning to cut them off, but I wondered where? Should I take from the Basal stem?
The other one is looking even more sorry for itself
wpuld this have been caused by poor pruning on my part? I’m keen not to kill any more of my roses than I have this year!
Apologies if already discussed here, but not only Sophie Rochas but also Arthur Bell is now being flogged under a Charles III coronation type name. Ugh! Are they going to go through all the roses in my garden and give them lame royal names?
... but I feel there's a snag there in that, at least where I am, I don't know any pink Camellia that will be flowering at the same time as one of those shrub roses.. Camellias are usually finished by late May, just as the roses start.. so I'm not sure you, or Mum, need worry about that aspect unless things are different in Aberdeen..
It's probably the foibles of a 90 year old wanting to have some import into the decision. So I will just indulge her. Otherwise, I will never hear the end of it. I am firmly in the 'pick your own battles" camp!
Apologies if already discussed here, but not only Sophie Rochas but also Arthur Bell is now being flogged under a Charles III coronation type name. Ugh! Are they going to go through all the roses in my garden and give them lame royal names?
That is such a shame. I love Aurthur Bell. What is its new name now @WAMS?
I am new to this forum. But, I love roses. I will learn a lot from everyone here.
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Yes I think it might be an OK combination. I’m trying to liven up the soft orange and lemon theme surrounding my rear patio @owd potter which is all rather tastefully coordinated and possibly a tad boring!
Thanks @Tack, still stuff to do and areas to sort out, but the garden is finally approaching that coveted mature stage.
BTW I think I might have solved the ‘how to support a standard and reinforce the rose umbrella stand’ conundrum! Those two square stakes on LEH are only an inch wide but I pushed them in vertically near the pot rim and gently bent inwards to tie at the top so they are tensioned and very sturdy. I’m going to repeat that with my big GdF standard with four stakes tied into the umbrella at the top, maybe with some cross bars lower down. Basically, constructing an obelisk type support under the umbrella post installation. Will let you know how that goes..
That's nice of your mum, I don't mind being a rose lady - can't do much else to be honest - ... but I feel there's a snag there in that, at least where I am, I don't know any pink Camellia that will be flowering at the same time as one of those shrub roses.. Camellias are usually finished by late May, just as the roses start.. so I'm not sure you, or Mum, need worry about that aspect unless things are different in Aberdeen..
wpuld this have been caused by poor pruning on my part? I’m keen not to kill any more of my roses than I have this year!
That is such a shame. I love Aurthur Bell. What is its new name now @WAMS?
I am new to this forum. But, I love roses. I will learn a lot from everyone here.
https://www.englishroses.co.uk/product/coronation-rose-for-king-charles/