..the term you are looking for is weeping standard.. rambling roses in standard form are the best for this, such as 'Super Excelsa'.. Floppy shrub roses produce a similar effect as standards..but not as pendulous..
Happy New Year all, and Merry Christmas as I missed that.
The Generous Gardener has had to have a very severe haircut as I've had to replace several of the fence panels. These last few storms finally finished them off.
Looking much better now though, I've been putting it off for years.
I'm sure it'll bounce back quickly, having a mature root system. Chance to reshape it as well.
Happy New Year Mr Vine.. Nice new fence, shame you had to cut it back, but needs must, and an opportunity to start again..
For those new to roses, you will sometimes find a rootstock sucker appearing, easily distinguished due to the unusual foliage, but rarely an own root sucker appears, this is the actual rose sending out a runner that will appear away from the trunk.. it's not the same as a basal shoot. In the process of repotting this rose, I have found an own root sucker here.. on the left. I severed and potted it up.. ..so now I have an own root rose of the same variety.. ..the original rose has been repotted, minus the sucker..
..big fat shoots on this 'Constance Finn', recently potted up from bare root.. 'Cornelia' is an early starter..
Re Salvias with roses.. well I would think you'd need an awful lot of them, one or two here and there probably won't make much difference, but they do emit sulphur. It's sulphur in the air that prevents black spot on roses. During the industrial revolution there was hardly any fungus diseases back then, grow the same roses today and they get diseased. Jack Harkness wrote that when he first started in the business as a young lad in the 1930's I think it was, he never saw black spot. Then the London smogs of the 1950's arrived and following that successive Clean Air Acts. He reported seeing black spot on roses from the 1960's as the sulphur in the air disappeared..
Ive got lots of Salvias with roses & nope,no difference really. Sulphur rose spraying & Keeping feet clear of debris & maintaining a good airflow more effective.
Brother Cadfael bare root back in stock if anyone missed it. Discontinued Austin, lovely scent, almost thornless, strong sturdy stems & mines still flowering now! Beautiful rose.
Thank you for this, I've just ordered one, and at such a good price!!
I ordered this bareroot rose on 10th October 2023; I still have not received it yet. I sent in a reminder in early December and was told it will be arriving soon. If it doesn't come by the end of January, I'm planning to cancel my order.
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
I found what you said about sulphur in the air very interesting @Marlorena. Here, in Dordogne the air is clean and lichen grows easily but I think the roses get more black spot than the roses I grow in OH's garden in Norfolk. Another thing is that silver in the UK tarnishes more quickly than silver in Dordogne.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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..the term you are looking for is weeping standard.. rambling roses in standard form are the best for this, such as 'Super Excelsa'..
Floppy shrub roses produce a similar effect as standards..but not as pendulous..
The Generous Gardener has had to have a very severe haircut as I've had to replace several of the fence panels. These last few storms finally finished them off.
Looking much better now though, I've been putting it off for years.
I'm sure it'll bounce back quickly, having a mature root system. Chance to reshape it as well.
For those new to roses, you will sometimes find a rootstock sucker appearing, easily distinguished due to the unusual foliage, but rarely an own root sucker appears, this is the actual rose sending out a runner that will appear away from the trunk.. it's not the same as a basal shoot.
In the process of repotting this rose, I have found an own root sucker here.. on the left.
I severed and potted it up..
..so now I have an own root rose of the same variety..
..the original rose has been repotted, minus the sucker..
..big fat shoots on this 'Constance Finn', recently potted up from bare root..
'Cornelia' is an early starter..
Jack Harkness wrote that when he first started in the business as a young lad in the 1930's I think it was, he never saw black spot. Then the London smogs of the 1950's arrived and following that successive Clean Air Acts. He reported seeing black spot on roses from the 1960's as the sulphur in the air disappeared..
Clean air good for us, not so good for roses.