Lovely sunny weekend here so yesterday I fed all my roses and today I planted the new patio rose that I bought from the garden centre a week or so ago into a pot. It is White Patio (White Patio Wonder according to HMF), bred by Jalbert.
Best of luck with house hunt @Mr. Vine Eye. Nice to hear from you. Yes with your care the MH will bounce back with all new growth.
I have not been able to prune as still busy with job search and interview preparations. Job market is not good atm.
Anyway, I was feeling bad and guilty about not pruning then I thought what if I dont prune this year! Roses will look unruly but it's not going to harm after all.
By not releasing a new rose at this time of year, DA has lost atleast one customer. I used to get new release rose for my bday.
Another one here whose life got in the way of gardening! I had a fair bit of moving, repotting and dumping planned but haven’t got very far. As a result, some below par roses might have a free pass this year.
The good news is we’ve had - finally - some decent rain so the water butts are full and everything has had a good drink.
I also had three 40L bags of worm compost delivered. It’s really rich, black and crumby and all the roses have had a generous top dressing of that as well as their Vitax azalea food then a thick mulch of my usual ericaceous compost. Interestingly, the roses have shinier, redder new growth, even those that don’t usually have much of that. Coincidence??
Palais Biron, for example, whose foliage is normally a matte olive green, maybe a hint of pinkish red in new shoots but not usually like this:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
good to hear from @Nollie@Mr. Vine Eye house hunt in summer? are you planning to take your roses with you?
re; Crown gall, shouldn't the entire plant be removed? or is it just the cane...
remembered @WAMS and her roses the other day when I searching for a particular rose in this forum.. hope the person who inherits it, takes care of them well..
Good luck with job interviews @newbie77 roses can wait this season.. I think many are annoyed with the late DA release...
@Perki did you built that arch yourself? some skill set you got there..
Is it just me or does Spring feel more wintery.. At least the sun shines for longer..
@Marlorena in fragrance does Country parson fare same as Silas Marner? I have got a shaded spot and not sure how much sunlight it would get in the summer.. but felt scots roses may be better at shaded areas compared to others..
@cooldoc A nice lemony scent if I remember, quite different to SM.. the blooms soon lose their yellow and turn to creamy white. I doubt it's fussy as to location. Long flowering too, one of the first to start and last to finish.. always a bloom open.. You'll need gloves..
@Mr. Vine Eye The Rose Geek on youtube had a talk with Dr Mark Windham a year ago and he said that you can’t cut crown gall out because it lives in the soil and through the whole plant. He said you need to remove the rose and either remove 2 wheelbarrows of soil and spread it thinly over your lawn in a part of your garden where it won’t wash into your flower beds. This isn’t possible for alot of us in this country however. Or plant something else there that isn’t susceptible. Otherwise he said it takes 8-10 years to disappear from the soil.
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Ended up with an extra unexpected job though when I found this on Malvern Hills:
Gall I think. I've chopped that cane off at the base as low as I could below the lump.
But that cane was holding the vast majority of the structure of the rose! I hadn't realised how much I'd be removing.
All the drainpipe zig zag and most of what went above the doors and windows gone!
But nevermind, gives a chance to rejuvenate it with new growth. The flowering hasn't been as spectacular as those first few years.
Hopefully it'll be ok now and not suffer too badly from the gall.
I have not been able to prune as still busy with job search and interview preparations. Job market is not good atm.
Anyway, I was feeling bad and guilty about not pruning then I thought what if I dont prune this year! Roses will look unruly but it's not going to harm after all.
By not releasing a new rose at this time of year, DA has lost atleast one customer. I used to get new release rose for my bday.
The good news is we’ve had - finally - some decent rain so the water butts are full and everything has had a good drink.
I also had three 40L bags of worm compost delivered. It’s really rich, black and crumby and all the roses have had a generous top dressing of that as well as their Vitax azalea food then a thick mulch of my usual ericaceous compost. Interestingly, the roses have shinier, redder new growth, even those that don’t usually have much of that. Coincidence??
Palais Biron, for example, whose foliage is normally a matte olive green, maybe a hint of pinkish red in new shoots but not usually like this:
house hunt in summer? are you planning to take your roses with you?
re; Crown gall, shouldn't the entire plant be removed? or is it just the cane...
remembered @WAMS and her roses the other day when I searching for a particular rose in this forum.. hope the person who inherits it, takes care of them well..
Good luck with job interviews @newbie77 roses can wait this season.. I think many are annoyed with the late DA release...
@Perki did you built that arch yourself? some skill set you got there..
Is it just me or does Spring feel more wintery.. At least the sun shines for longer..
@Marlorena in fragrance does Country parson fare same as Silas Marner? I have got a shaded spot and not sure how much sunlight it would get in the summer.. but felt scots roses may be better at shaded areas compared to others..
A nice lemony scent if I remember, quite different to SM.. the blooms soon lose their yellow and turn to creamy white. I doubt it's fussy as to location. Long flowering too, one of the first to start and last to finish.. always a bloom open.. You'll need gloves..