Yes, funny how DA sent out the advertising blurb after the current discount has finished, Marlorena!
A question or two for those of you that grow Soul in the UK, which I think includes @Tack and @cooldoc..
How tall and wide does it get for you over there? I am organising one for a UK friend so an idea of that or any other info I can pass on would be much appreciated. How brutally or otherwise do you prune it? I imagine it would benefit from a hard prune to keep in shape when grown freestanding. TIA.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I was pondering where to place my Chandos Beauty once I've potted it up as I am running out of suitable flat places.
It has just dawned on me that once our new tarmac drive is completed, hopefully by the middle of next week, I could place it under a sitting room window where we would pass it on a daily basis.
However, earlier on in the year, I gave three pots that formerly lived there to my daughter as I didn't want to have to keep watering them! Decisions, decisions.
Strange oversight by DA, there, Nollie.😆 Greedy so and so's!
My last rose pics of the year, not least because my phone camera stops working after a minute or two in minus temperatures and you can't refocus the blasted thing.
Penelope Lively (DA) The Sun and the Heart (Harkness) Jubilee Celebration (DA) Dee-Lish (Anniversary Rose from Peter Beales) Lady of Shalott (DA)
That looks very chilly! I was preparing to protect tender plants such as the lemon tree and hoik out the pennisetum rubrum to store in the garage, but it’s gone weirdly warm again. Roses still coming and going, including Falstaff:
My second - and theoretically last - bare root order has reached a depot near Girona, including CPM, allegedly. I wonder how long it will take to travel around 30km.. around a week I would guess knowing the local couriers 🙄
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Love the crystalized The Anniversery Rose pic WAMS.
Blush Noisette in August, so pleased many of you are getting this, such an easy floriferous rose.
It is chilly, roses mostly pruned and tied in because of the snow warnings, now retracted, cut off so many buds.
I have only had Soul one year in a pot @Nollie. I have grown it upright for this year in a cage, the canes are 6ft ish. I have to make a plan for it, am encouraged that you think it gets more rain resistant with age. Fingers crossed you get CPM
Sigh. I wish my Falstaff had taken off nicely, Nollie- that's perfect. I did get these two nice blooms off it this year but that was my lot! I can't decide whether to keep it for another year or not. It's in a prime spot sunshine-wise. Hope you get your CPM. That's the only recently-discontinued DA I really hanker after.
I have just been out in the garden moving Blue for You to a bigger pot and potting up Cutie Pie. Cutie Pie arrived last night when my lodger opened the front door to go out for a smoke - we usually use the back door.
Cutie Pie is tiny and seems to be on it's own roots.
As usual I let my house cats wander around the garden. I saw that Truffles was inspecting all the pots with bulbs that are already sprouting due to being planted early - then I realised that he was checking if any of them tasted nice!
Best of luck for the quick arrival of your roses, including CPM - it looks beautiful @Nollie.
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How tall and wide does it get for you over there? I am organising one for a UK friend so an idea of that or any other info I can pass on would be much appreciated. How brutally or otherwise do you prune it? I imagine it would benefit from a hard prune to keep in shape when grown freestanding. TIA.
It has just dawned on me that once our new tarmac drive is completed, hopefully by the middle of next week, I could place it under a sitting room window where we would pass it on a daily basis.
However, earlier on in the year, I gave three pots that formerly lived there to my daughter as I didn't want to have to keep watering them! Decisions, decisions.
My last rose pics of the year, not least because my phone camera stops working after a minute or two in minus temperatures and you can't refocus the blasted thing.
Penelope Lively (DA)
The Sun and the Heart (Harkness)
Jubilee Celebration (DA)
Dee-Lish (Anniversary Rose from Peter Beales)
Lady of Shalott (DA)
My second - and theoretically last - bare root order has reached a depot near Girona, including CPM, allegedly. I wonder how long it will take to travel around 30km.. around a week I would guess knowing the local couriers 🙄
Hope you get your CPM. That's the only recently-discontinued DA I really hanker after.
Cutie Pie is tiny and seems to be on it's own roots.
As usual I let my house cats wander around the garden. I saw that Truffles was inspecting all the pots with bulbs that are already sprouting due to being planted early - then I realised that he was checking if any of them tasted nice!
Best of luck for the quick arrival of your roses, including CPM - it looks beautiful @Nollie.