@WAMS Sweet Juliet shown as back in stock on DA website!
Oh my gosh, THANK you! I really wanted this one. I got your message just as I was about to turn in for the night. Now I have made a slightly impulsive half-asleep order. Hurray!😁
I see you have well and truly got the apricot bug WAMS, It really creeps up on you.. hope you like the fragrance of Sweet Juliet, I thought it was superb.
I succumbed to popular opinion and added The Poet’s Wife for my OH to an existing order. Marriage saved! Somehow an Abraham Darby slipped in there too. I fail miserably to limit my rose orders every year and my resolution to reduce roses in pots likewise. Then the ‘what the hell am I going to do with them all’ panic sets in!
@Fire is that Uncle Toms Rose Tonic (potassium phosphite) you mean? Cooldoc and I had a discussion about that around page 9. My view is that it’s a supplement not a substitute for your usual rose food containing N and essential micronutrients. You wouldn’t need to feed liquid tomato food on top though. Here’s the link again explaining what pp is..
Narrowly escaped there @Nollie 😂 How did you go about creating space in your bed? Did you give roses their maximum width when planting on the ground?
Edit: I am too a fan of having shades of colour in a rose than a plain pink. DA was kind enough to apply the discount code to my previous order when I succumbed to temptation and added 'Penelope Lively'.. hope the scent matches upto its reputation here..
Since it’s nothing to do with her current obsession (golf) by the time it arrives I bet it will be a surprise!
@cooldoc I allow the full estimated spread for roses. I draw out circles in the soil with a stick at the appropriate sizes and plant perennials outside of that allowing for their spread too so the circles aren’t touching. I more or less follow this DA guide regardless of whether the roses are theirs or not.
Doesn’t always work, since plants rarely follow the rules, growth-wise, but you have to start somewhere and then adjust later if required. Others plant closer, but I find anything touching or overhanging causes the roses to have blackspot conniptions in my humid climate.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@WAMS I finally picked up my Alnwick from my friend a few weeks back, its lovely! Gorgeous scent and pretty peachy blooms. No clue where its going yet Is it ok in sun? Debating out the front as im cutting an extension on front bed but it gets very hot out there. Might swap some potted newer hybrids out front and pot it in the back which has more shade.
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I deadhead until my roses finish as not many fancy hips on mine and I hate the dried shrivelled deadflowers in the damp autumn. I cut back the taller stems to help stop windrock in winter winds and at least semi prune a few as I have 80+ to get through and it dosent usually get reallyyyy cold here. I never prune off quite enough either!
I do tidy dead leaves and debris and cut out any dead stems from underneath in winter and defoliate anything tatty too to help vs blackspot.
@JessicaS My Chandos Beauty are still blooming but the canes are huge! How much would you cut them back after flowering? TIA
@Dasha I always say, if you are set on a particular rose you should get it, and deal with it later... years down the line before you need worry about it's climbing proclivities..
'The Generous Gardener' growing as a tall shrub, about 6 feet tall.. with other roses.. also in the photo.. 'The Poet's Wife'.. 'Forever Royal'.. 'Scepter'd Isle'.. 'Baronne Prevost'..'Wild Rover'..
This is very encouraging, thank you, @Marlorena. I will treat it as a shrub for now then and see what happens
I noticed you included Kew Gardens and Scarborough Fair in your list of favourite DAs. If you had to pick one which one would it be?
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I succumbed to popular opinion and added The Poet’s Wife for my OH to an existing order. Marriage saved! Somehow an Abraham Darby slipped in there too. I fail miserably to limit my rose orders every year and my resolution to reduce roses in pots likewise. Then the ‘what the hell am I going to do with them all’ panic sets in!
@Fire is that Uncle Toms Rose Tonic (potassium phosphite) you mean? Cooldoc and I had a discussion about that around page 9. My view is that it’s a supplement not a substitute for your usual rose food containing N and essential micronutrients. You wouldn’t need to feed liquid tomato food on top though. Here’s the link again explaining what pp is..
https://www.bartlett.com/resources/plant-health-care-applications-for-potassium-phosphite.pdf
How did you go about creating space in your bed? Did you give roses their maximum width when planting on the ground?
Edit: I am too a fan of having shades of colour in a rose than a plain pink. DA was kind enough to apply the discount code to my previous order when I succumbed to temptation and added 'Penelope Lively'.. hope the scent matches upto its reputation here..
@cooldoc I allow the full estimated spread for roses. I draw out circles in the soil with a stick at the appropriate sizes and plant perennials outside of that allowing for their spread too so the circles aren’t touching. I more or less follow this DA guide regardless of whether the roses are theirs or not.
Doesn’t always work, since plants rarely follow the rules, growth-wise, but you have to start somewhere and then adjust later if required. Others plant closer, but I find anything touching or overhanging causes the roses to have blackspot conniptions in my humid climate.
Blue for You, last hurrah.
Claire Austin, love the lemony tones.
Strawberry Hill, lst year.
Eglantyne
Natalie Nypels, I have two of these in matching pots by a bench.
Unknown Apricot which I adore.
Last, but not least my Royal William, planted for my father back in 1993, has survived 3 House moves and still going strong!
'Kew Gardens' is my favourite rose, but it's a personal choice. I like single white flowered roses.
I found another pic of The Generous Gardener whilst still a shrub..