I think that looks fabulous Marlorena. My choice for a dream rose hedge would also be white - Marie Pavie. Planted alongside a driveway or path, so I could inhale all that lovely wafting fragrance as I walked by. Even when not in bloom, which isn’t often, it’s such a lovely, fulsome foliage plant.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Yes Nollie, a great choice... back in those days 'Marie Pavie' wasn't well known and expensive.. I'm not sure I had heard of it, 'Iceberg' was cheap to buy in those plastic bags, and sold everywhere, ... it still is I think.. I used to shear it over each Spring and after flushes..
'Little White Pet' is another short, continuous blooming white shrub rose for hedges, I've had that one here too..
'Desdemona' makes a fabulous hedge, but costs a lot..
I see your 'Marie Nabonnand' is doing really well and soon be flowering, a bit ahead of mine.. looks to be suited to your climate so far..
Sorry that border didn't work out, I remember you doing it all.. 'Mme. A. Carriere' in a pot? well, it'll be fun to follow the progress.. if needs must then why not?..
@Eustace Oh lovely tree peonies.. I used to have a yellow one.. I thought yours was a rose for a moment..
I hadn’t heard of the majority of the roses I now grow as recently as five years ago, before then it was a couple of local roses and a few Austins. I have this forum to thank for that, oh and TCL and my new love Loubert being such good value I can indulge my rose acquisitiveness with abandon.
My plans often get stymied by my climate, rocky terrain or an inconvenient tree, so I’m used to it by now Marlorena. MAC in a pot I can at least blame squarely on my OH!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Marlorena I would LOVE to grow an Austin hedge like Olivia or Desdemona but 18 x £22.50 would be ridiculous. Could it worth buying a few and making an Austin hedge from cuttings? I’d imagine that would be a long process. Your pictures of your old garden look incredible. Your dog looks like he certainly admires it 😂
..my neighbour at the time - who did not grow a single rose - peered over the fence and said ''too much white !!''.. ..perhaps my old dog thought the same.. I loved it..
Was s/he a German Shepherd? Utterly wonderful dog clearly admiring the vista. Glorious picture!!!
@Alfie_ You will have to take cuttings from the same plant and hope they all take.. that would be a lot of cuttings plus would need a lot of patience..
I had a garden gift token for Christmas, so today I bought this It looks great, so I hope it will do well. It will probably be the first one to flower in my garden, I don't think I've seen any buds on the roses I already have.
@WAMS Thanks, yes German Shepherd.. she was about 12 in the photo, lived to 17.. loved nothing more than chasing a ball along the beach.. that was in Cornwall, so beaches nearby.. we got 'Hazy' as an 8 year old from Battersea Dog's Home.. such intelligent and knowing dogs..
I had a large garden of roses or all types, lots of ramblers.. I went mad and kept ordering from Beales catalogue...
@Alfie_ Thanks Alfie,, yes it would take some time from cuttings, you'd best stick to your plan, but like others said, it's a bit late for bare roots.. but if you're happy to chance it.. I've planted bare roots in July before.. Are you sure you need 35? how far apart do you envisage? For that pink rose I'd be centering them 3 feet apart I think..
@Nollie Well that gave you no choice then.. I like your 'Yolande d'Aragon', looking forward to seeing that in bloom..
Nice rose @bullfinch I think some members here have that one too..
Carried out a bud audit earlier and there are a handful. I was pleased to see bud(s) on 2 of 3 Bourbons, a new rose venture from last year.
President Armand Zinch, a fun and nice smelling yellow HT looks terrible at the moment. Crown Princess Margareta which I moved huge and without cutting back is looking ok as is Chateau Munsbach. La Ville Cotta which I moved to the squishiest part of the garden is already looking happier than at any point it did last year. Other than making sure my little roses don't get covered in sweaty bulb leaves I don't have much to do for them right now but I might make a feeding list.
This is non-rose news but I don't think any of you will mind I have had some success in getting tulips to come back year after year and against what I think is proper process I have also been planting them in the green out of pots and while looking a little weird in the first year, due to being planting a little deeper (and crookeder), they come back absolutely fine. The pinkish red ones in the photos below are year 2 and 3 examples of this. They are all Darwin or Triumph and importantly I think, this, the Trapezoid bed always remains a little dry.
Pondside view, Marsh Marigolds doing well again at least on this, the sunny side. The blurry cane in the foreground is where I intend to plant Pink Leda if nothing I have forgotten about grows up in the space. It is currently in a pot. There was frogspawn in the pond mid March, I haven't seen any 'poles but there is an awful lot of foliage in there. Saw a tiny frog bouncing through a fern but not sure if that would have been this years, seems a bit quick.
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'Little White Pet' is another short, continuous blooming white shrub rose for hedges, I've had that one here too..
'Desdemona' makes a fabulous hedge, but costs a lot..
Sorry that border didn't work out, I remember you doing it all.. 'Mme. A. Carriere' in a pot? well, it'll be fun to follow the progress.. if needs must then why not?..
@Eustace
Oh lovely tree peonies.. I used to have a yellow one.. I thought yours was a rose for a moment..
My plans often get stymied by my climate, rocky terrain or an inconvenient tree, so I’m used to it by now Marlorena. MAC in a pot I can at least blame squarely on my OH!
expected to drop to -1 on Monday
Thanks, yes German Shepherd.. she was about 12 in the photo, lived to 17.. loved nothing more than chasing a ball along the beach.. that was in Cornwall, so beaches nearby.. we got 'Hazy' as an 8 year old from Battersea Dog's Home.. such intelligent and knowing dogs..
I had a large garden of roses or all types, lots of ramblers.. I went mad and kept ordering from Beales catalogue...
@Alfie_
Thanks Alfie,, yes it would take some time from cuttings, you'd best stick to your plan, but like others said, it's a bit late for bare roots.. but if you're happy to chance it.. I've planted bare roots in July before..
Are you sure you need 35? how far apart do you envisage? For that pink rose I'd be centering them 3 feet apart I think..
@Nollie
Well that gave you no choice then.. I like your 'Yolande d'Aragon', looking forward to seeing that in bloom..
Nice rose @bullfinch
I think some members here have that one too..
President Armand Zinch, a fun and nice smelling yellow HT looks terrible at the moment. Crown Princess Margareta which I moved huge and without cutting back is looking ok as is Chateau Munsbach. La Ville Cotta which I moved to the squishiest part of the garden is already looking happier than at any point it did last year. Other than making sure my little roses don't get covered in sweaty bulb leaves I don't have much to do for them right now but I might make a feeding list.
This is non-rose news but I don't think any of you will mind
Pondside view, Marsh Marigolds doing well again at least on this, the sunny side. The blurry cane in the foreground is where I intend to plant Pink Leda if nothing I have forgotten about grows up in the space. It is currently in a pot. There was frogspawn in the pond mid March, I haven't seen any 'poles but there is an awful lot of foliage in there. Saw a tiny frog bouncing through a fern but not sure if that would have been this years, seems a bit quick.