Loved her Chandos Beauty! Mine's a bit weedy so I'm going to dig it up and pot it to see if it does better.
Mine isn't doing well either, but it's new in, and am trying to decide how to handle it. I don't really have room for another big pot. I wondered about trying to grow it as a climber. MB's looked near to chest height.
I am currently reading An Economic History of the English Garden by Roderick Floud, which is much more interesting than it sounds.
I thought you might be interested to learn that in 1664 a nurseryman in Shoreditch supplied 65 fruit trees to to William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington, including 4 varieties of peach at a cost of 5s each, which is equivalent to £400 each in modern values.
And in 1816 General Royale ordered 6 geraniums at a cost of £979, including the new Prince Regent variety. The book does not state if these were pelargoniums or hardy geraniums.
Just for anyone who is worried that they have overspent on bareroots.
I thought pelargoniums but there seems to be a variety of both called Prince Regent. But I would imagine pelargoniums would be more likely to have a scarcity value?
I finished pruning the remaining 13 roses in the back garden today. The only ones I haven't done is the Etoile de Hollande on the outside fence which is now looking pretty ropey after the very hot summer so I'm going to leave it this year. The second rose is my very vigorous Ispahan on the rose arch in the front garden. Although I think it's a once flowerer shrub rose, I tend to treat it more like a climber as it continually throws up long thinnish canes. I should perhaps cut out one or two of the oldest canes at soil level but that means losing the growth I've trained sideways into the magnolia. Decisions, decisions.
Here is a posy made up of a few roses (Golden Celebration, Desdemona, Darcey Bussell, Enchantress and Golden Beauty) taken from the garden today. Golden Beauty/South Africa is very much amber/orangey though in the cold weather.
Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
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Mine isn't doing well either, but it's new in, and am trying to decide how to handle it. I don't really have room for another big pot. I wondered about trying to grow it as a climber. MB's looked near to chest height.
I thought you might be interested to learn that in 1664 a nurseryman in Shoreditch supplied 65 fruit trees to to William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington, including 4 varieties of peach at a cost of 5s each, which is equivalent to £400 each in modern values.
And in 1816 General Royale ordered 6 geraniums at a cost of £979, including the new Prince Regent variety. The book does not state if these were pelargoniums or hardy geraniums.
Just for anyone who is worried that they have overspent on bareroots.
I think they would be Pelargoniums..
I thought pelargoniums but there seems to be a variety of both called Prince Regent. But I would imagine pelargoniums would be more likely to have a scarcity value?
I got it from the library @PeterAberdeen
I finished pruning the remaining 13 roses in the back garden today. The only ones I haven't done is the Etoile de Hollande on the outside fence which is now looking pretty ropey after the very hot summer so I'm going to leave it this year. The second rose is my very vigorous Ispahan on the rose arch in the front garden. Although I think it's a once flowerer shrub rose, I tend to treat it more like a climber as it continually throws up long thinnish canes. I should perhaps cut out one or two of the oldest canes at soil level but that means losing the growth I've trained sideways into the magnolia. Decisions, decisions.
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