@cooldoc haha hilariously its not my car! Its next doors, our estate has a weird way of doing front gardens where a strip of it overlaps your neighbours, even though its your front lawn! So the patio/drive/ bin is actually theirs... my neighbours on the otherside overlaps mine in the same way.. very silly! Thankfully they are both lovely.
Ive got lots of lovely hellebore either out or about to be, and the first few snowdrops - I tried planting in the green last year as ive never had luck with the bulbs & its worked brilliantly, all sprouting away. Lots of roses sprouting here. Done all my pruning.
For some colour, heres a reminder of some of the pretty roses I saw in a garden in Japan... Alas no idea what they are! Lovely scents...
If I wanted yellow then I'd go with The Pilgrim.. given a few years I'm sure it will suit your purposes.. it seems capable of covering a decent sized wall..
Despite the weirdly warm January weather, your roses are much more advanced than mine, Marlorena. Apart from one I pruned back hard meaning to dump it then forgot about, that’s fully leafed out.
I saw Princesse Charlène de Monaco on sale at my local GC and was tempted, given it’s supposed to be both rain and heat tolerant. Hmm, could I squeeze in a tall narrow rose somewhere??
A query about pruning modern shrubby hybrid tea roses…
I’m thinking of the likes of those with big blowsy blooms but grow on thick woody stems, HT-style. Can you prune these back as hard as HTs, e.g to 6”? Would they object to hard pruning or is it better to just cut back by half?
Asking for a friend who wants to know how to prune her soul, which has grown very tall. I grow it as a climber so wasn’t sure what to advise! @Tack you grow it freestanding I think?
I have a funny feeling I have asked this before but have been a bit distracted of late so can’t remember!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
If I wanted yellow then I'd go with The Pilgrim.. given a few years I'm sure it will suit your purposes.. it seems capable of covering a decent sized wall..
Just one more question- what is Woolerton Old Hall like? It seems to be pretty large too. I’d never really looked at it before and it’s lovely.
'Wollerton Old Hall'.. other members have this rose I think.. as I recall it grew very quickly, tall and lanky and the canes need supporting if not to flop everywhere. Very strong scent of what they call myrrh, or garden myrrh.. we might say baby soap or talc.. It's a scent produced from hybridisation as it's not found in specie roses. I like this scent but not everyone does.
It's not a true climbing rose, but a very large shrub rose capable of being trained like a climber on fences and walls. Very few thorns as I remember. If scent is important, then it's much stronger than The Pilgrim. Wispy petals, incurving.. similar to Jude The Obscure but a much larger rose.
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Nice of Daniel R to give you those MW's roses @PeterAberdeen lucky you !.. I wish I had kept one of mine now, but I can't keep everything here..
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Ive got lots of lovely hellebore either out or about to be, and the first few snowdrops - I tried planting in the green last year as ive never had luck with the bulbs & its worked brilliantly, all sprouting away. Lots of roses sprouting here. Done all my pruning.
For some colour, heres a reminder of some of the pretty roses I saw in a garden in Japan... Alas no idea what they are! Lovely scents...
Claire
Strawberry Hill
The Pilgrim
Mary D
Generous Gardener
GJ
Wollerton Old Hall
Generous Gardener
Bathsheba
James Galway
Constance Spry.
I’d prefer something light, even pastel. Yellow was where I wanted to go.
I saw Princesse Charlène de Monaco on sale at my local GC and was tempted, given it’s supposed to be both rain and heat tolerant. Hmm, could I squeeze in a tall narrow rose somewhere??
I’m thinking of the likes of those with big blowsy blooms but grow on thick woody stems, HT-style. Can you prune these back as hard as HTs, e.g to 6”? Would they object to hard pruning or is it better to just cut back by half?
Asking for a friend who wants to know how to prune her soul, which has grown very tall. I grow it as a climber so wasn’t sure what to advise! @Tack you grow it freestanding I think?
It's a scent produced from hybridisation as it's not found in specie roses. I like this scent but not everyone does.
It's not a true climbing rose, but a very large shrub rose capable of being trained like a climber on fences and walls. Very few thorns as I remember. If scent is important, then it's much stronger than The Pilgrim. Wispy petals, incurving.. similar to Jude The Obscure but a much larger rose.