@newbie77 if it helps it was hard work digging and preparing it! Ive put some alliums & tulips in the middle for now till the potted roses (potted up bare roots) have roots growing out of the pots & I can plant them as theyve been in since Octoberish & are sprouting happily!
Ive discovered my Birthday boy #2 has died again, must be something in that patch it was in thats caused it. I will put something else there & try another spot for a new one. Ive got a Viburnum to move out hopefully no links to roses there?
We had a most bizarre but very enjoyable week last week, 22c days and not dropping below 5c overnight - in fact is was 13.8c one morning at 6am when I let the dogs out. Lots of roses prematurely bursting into bud, but this morning we were back to cold frosty conditions.
Looking forward to the coming rose season and seeing all our new acquisitions in bloom!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Today I took delivery from @Daniel Rutherford of not one, but two Munster Woods. They were picked up yesterday and arrived today (thanks DHL). I am so grateful to Daniel for this 'retired' DA rose(s).
I have already got them soaking in a bucket of water and I will deal with them tomorrow. Ideally I want to put them into pots, till I decide where they are to go.
Suggestions for planting them best into pots (compost, feed, &c) welcome along with best placement in the garden later on i.e. sun, aspect, &c very welcome.
You all know how much I had coveted having a Munster Wood rose - and now I have two! I am like a dog with two tails today. First red roses we have in the garden.
@PeterAberdeen how exciting!! My Munstead woods in a pot happily, ive got it in john innes no3 with some empathy plant food, empathy root grow and a bit of watergel. Mines in a sunny spot in one of those big black double handled pots you garden sell & seems content. I got it just before it was retired. I have a metal plant support in to help shape it as it flops a bit Bonus picture of 2of my assistant gardeners.. the boys helped unpack the mini trees for the front earlier (by eating the straw & tossing it round the garden )
I wanted to buy Malvern hills for a 10m section of wall, but Austin don’t have it on their EU website. There is a garden centre in Dublin that I’ve found to be not great in the past who are selling it, so if I wanted to buy from there I’d have to try to get there at the weekend.
The crowd coming to do some hard landscaping for me suggested The Pilgrim as a replacement. What does the Rose hive mind think? Austin call it a climber rather than a rambler and I’d really like something to ramble from the bed it’ll be in across the back of a 3m patio nearby.
@Nollie same here Nollie.. not as mild as your climate, but then the temp has suddenly gone down to freezing last night..
I had got the DA food this time as well @Marlorena .. I could notice some of them from last year on the pots.. are they not supposed to disintegrated? or slow release would stay on for longer?
Yes, those yellow granules stick around forever it seems.. mine are the usual Vitax Azalea transferred to an old DA pot..
I like Ghislaine de Feligonde too,.. 15-20 foot width after 4 or 5 years.. interesting rose, repeats well, but we should always choose what we like best I think. I never did have The Pilgrim long enough beyond 8 feet, but I see it can grow very large these days, against a wall..
Well I suppose it's mid winter, doesn't feel like it although cold wind outside today.. I've had a few -6's but roses can take that .. 'Marie Pavie'.. 'Fragrant Delight'.. ..nice new bare root 'Constance Finn', lovely foliage appearing.. these pots all froze solid recently, but not a problem for roses.. ..this Geranium can't wait to get going.. much like us.. ..hope you've got a few Snowdrops out..
Thanks everyone. Munsteads are now potted up using JI, garden compost with a bit of loam and using some Empathy Root Grow. Placed the pots in a sheltered south facing spot and I'll feed and mulch later in February.
Like @Marlorena I have some snowdrops peeping through, though over the last 20 years the colonies have began to disappear, but an old school friend has an 'infestation' of snowdrops in her garden so she's donating some 'in the green' to reinvigorate my supply. Had a few -16º's here and the roses have taken it in their stride. The Standard Princess Annes are event coming into leaf - now they have been moved to a more sheltered SE facing border.
Unlike @Marlorena my geraniums are still dormant and it is me that is wanting them to come on a bit (I'm getting impatient, as I always am at this time of the year).
But at least I have got the new Yew hedge prepared and planted - I wonder how my patience will cope with them reaching the required 6' to screen the compost heaps!
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Ive discovered my Birthday boy #2 has died again, must be something in that patch it was in thats caused it. I will put something else there & try another spot for a new one. Ive got a Viburnum to move out hopefully no links to roses there?
Looking forward to the coming rose season and seeing all our new acquisitions in bloom!
You all know how much I had coveted having a Munster Wood rose - and now I have two! I am like a dog with two tails today. First red roses we have in the garden.
Onwards and Upwards
Bonus picture of 2of my assistant gardeners.. the boys helped unpack the mini trees for the front earlier (by eating the straw & tossing it round the garden
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@PeterAberdeen nice thick stems on those MW specimens..
@Nollie same here Nollie.. not as mild as your climate, but then the temp has suddenly gone down to freezing last night..
I had got the DA food this time as well @Marlorena .. I could notice some of them from last year on the pots.. are they not supposed to disintegrated? or slow release would stay on for longer?
I like Ghislaine de Feligonde too,.. 15-20 foot width after 4 or 5 years.. interesting rose, repeats well, but we should always choose what we like best I think. I never did have The Pilgrim long enough beyond 8 feet, but I see it can grow very large these days, against a wall..
I've had a few -6's but roses can take that ..
'Marie Pavie'..
'Fragrant Delight'..
..nice new bare root 'Constance Finn', lovely foliage appearing.. these pots all froze solid recently, but not a problem for roses..
..this Geranium can't wait to get going.. much like us..
..hope you've got a few Snowdrops out..