@Marlorena thanks for the tips. I have three large pots this year with multiple roses in (Ab Fab, Eustacia Vye and PAOK) and have reserved one large pot to try a single rose with an obelisk. I might go for Syrie as @JessicaS has definitely secured me a visit to Harkness soon. Do you think Charles de Mills would do good on an obelisk out in a border instead then?
@ciaranmcgrenera - exciting. Woud love to see some photos of that in the summer!
@WAMS - yes it does seem like a fairly shallow pot
@Imprevu - the Armandii flowers on old wood. Yes, the spell is short but it is glamorous and the smell is unreal. What I did last year which worked well is after flowering I was very brutal and removed every dead branch and leaf. It then throws out lots of new growth and looks really good until the following year where you just repeat the same.
Here is mine after pruning last year:
That purple stuff you can see is the new growth. It looked immaculate until just before flowering this year but didn't want to remove leaves in fear of the flowering getting affected. Still looks very healthy now even though I haven't touched it since early last summer:
Just a few deads leaves here in there but thats overwhelmed by the flowering.
@Herbloom Thank you. The fairy Ring started with a few bulbs in a circle popping up in the lawn in the Spring after a round bed was removed. Over the years they multiplied and if I dug any dwarf types up elsewhere I put them into the ring. Starting with snowdrops, it moves through crocus, iris , anenome blanda, scilla, daffodils, hyacinths and finally small tulips. It's a fairly narrow strip which we mow around and inside, you can see the gap for the mower to get in. Eventually, when the last leaves are starting to brown, we mow it all and forget it till next Spring.
@Herbloom Thank you. The fairy Ring started with a few bulbs in a circle popping up in the lawn in the Spring after a round bed was removed. Over the years they multiplied and if I dug any dwarf types up elsewhere I put them into the ring. Starting with snowdrops, it moves through crocus, iris , anenome blanda, scilla, daffodils, hyacinths and finally small tulips. It's a fairly narrow strip which we mow around and inside, you can see the gap for the mower to get in. Eventually, when the last leaves are starting to brown, we mow it all and forget it till next Spring.
It's a lovely effect. If our garden redo ends with enough sunny lawn, I may pinch the idea 😊
@WAMS thank you! Purple polyanthus were from homebase
@Alfie_ that's reassuring about Armandii pruning post flowering, mines got some insect damage causing black patches etc, im tempted to prune that out to help protect it. I might put another up the otherside to meet it as its not too rampant for me.
Eta - slime flux has really gotten my big old montana its really slimy. I cant prune currently as the robins are nesting in it. Upside, that shed needs replacing after nestinh and I dont feel so bad pulling off dead growth!
Anyone used manure to make a liquid tea for roses? I bough a bag of sheep manure to try, with a PH of 6.5, so better than alkaline horse manure in my alkaline soil. The pup is very keen on eating those delicious soft black pellets, so just spreading them doesn’t work. She may just eat the manure drenched soil instead, but worth a try?
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Marlorena , the shed used to be dark
green and house mower, secateurs, general garden stuff. Painted it
last April. Now it's called Chateau Sorbet. And still houses stuff.
You are very welcome to sit in front of it. Kordes and Tantau are
very close... I'll just see how Mutabilis fairs here. Last winter we
had 2 nights at -10 C. That killed my Yucca palm. Lagerstroemia
Indica has not made an appearance above ground yet either. I try to
move to more heat resistant plants.
@newbie77 , what do you feed your roses?
Those pot pics are amazing. Went immediately from couch to garden
center and got proper rose soil. Will order tomato fertilizer, too.
@Nollie , just showed my Astronomia and
Palais Biron, two one-legged sorry excuses for a rose, your pics.
Hope they get the idea. Pronto. Will do the same with your The
Prince. I have Louis XIV. He suffered badly last winter. Just
repotted it. Next Tuesday forecast says again -1 C. Poor sun king. He
used to be my first and last every year. Surely not this year.
@Tack , your fairy ring, spectacular
idea. Do you decorate it for a Halloween witch gathering? That picture of your Strawberry Hill by the fountain. Garden magazin worthy.
@Wynken , so glad, you are of the
chucking in team, too. I can never ever restrain myself. Planting
over weeding I say.
@Alfie , that's right. The prunus started
in November. This is from November 19.
Flowered until mid December
when the cold spell hit that killed my Yucca. After 3 weeks it
recovered and continued. If you have mild winters, go for it. I am
experimenting with flowers and trees to have blooms all year.
Chimonanthus praecox is another candidate. Great vanilla fragrance
and very bright green foliage. Wonderful Clematis Armandii and
beautifully displayed.
Thanks to looking at all your well
trained roses, Mr Vine Eye especially, got drizzled a lot yesterday
but now have 4 pegged and twirled. Let's see if the result is worth
the thorns in my hand.
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@ciaranmcgrenera - exciting. Woud love to see some photos of that in the summer!
@WAMS - yes it does seem like a fairly shallow pot
@Imprevu - the Armandii flowers on old wood. Yes, the spell is short but it is glamorous and the smell is unreal. What I did last year which worked well is after flowering I was very brutal and removed every dead branch and leaf. It then throws out lots of new growth and looks really good until the following year where you just repeat the same.
Here is mine after pruning last year:
That purple stuff you can see is the new growth. It looked immaculate until just before flowering this year but didn't want to remove leaves in fear of the flowering getting affected. Still looks very healthy now even though I haven't touched it since early last summer:
Just a few deads leaves here in there but thats overwhelmed by the flowering.
If our garden redo ends with enough sunny lawn, I may pinch the idea 😊
@WAMS thank you! Purple polyanthus were from homebase
@Alfie_ that's reassuring about Armandii pruning post flowering, mines got some insect damage causing black patches etc, im tempted to prune that out to help protect it. I might put another up the otherside to meet it as its not too rampant for me.
Eta - slime flux has really gotten my big old montana
@Marlorena , the shed used to be dark green and house mower, secateurs, general garden stuff. Painted it last April. Now it's called Chateau Sorbet. And still houses stuff. You are very welcome to sit in front of it. Kordes and Tantau are very close... I'll just see how Mutabilis fairs here. Last winter we had 2 nights at -10 C. That killed my Yucca palm. Lagerstroemia Indica has not made an appearance above ground yet either. I try to move to more heat resistant plants.
@newbie77 , what do you feed your roses? Those pot pics are amazing. Went immediately from couch to garden center and got proper rose soil. Will order tomato fertilizer, too.
@Nollie , just showed my Astronomia and Palais Biron, two one-legged sorry excuses for a rose, your pics. Hope they get the idea. Pronto. Will do the same with your The Prince. I have Louis XIV. He suffered badly last winter. Just repotted it. Next Tuesday forecast says again -1 C. Poor sun king. He used to be my first and last every year. Surely not this year.
@Tack , your fairy ring, spectacular idea. Do you decorate it for a Halloween witch gathering? That picture of your Strawberry Hill by the fountain. Garden magazin worthy.
@Wynken , so glad, you are of the chucking in team, too. I can never ever restrain myself. Planting over weeding I say.
@Alfie , that's right. The prunus started in November. This is from November 19.
Flowered until mid December when the cold spell hit that killed my Yucca. After 3 weeks it recovered and continued. If you have mild winters, go for it. I am experimenting with flowers and trees to have blooms all year. Chimonanthus praecox is another candidate. Great vanilla fragrance and very bright green foliage. Wonderful Clematis Armandii and beautifully displayed.
Thanks to looking at all your well trained roses, Mr Vine Eye especially, got drizzled a lot yesterday but now have 4 pegged and twirled. Let's see if the result is worth the thorns in my hand.