@Dasha on the subject of protecting pots, or not - and this may not apply to you - I do bubblewrap new bare root roses that I pot up in the DA type 6L pots and grow on over winter in my unheated poly. Those are very thin pots with little soil around the roots for protection from frosts. I throw a fleece over them in really bad weather too.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do with this year’s crop though, since my poly is pretty much disintegrated!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
How are you guys coping with upcoming roseless gloom? I am considering buying some winter flowering Daphne but I hear they are unreliable and just so expensive. I did get a couple of Sarcococca shrubs last winter so that's something... Anything you can recommend?
@Dasha, I like hellebores, polyanthus/primulas, Sarcococca, camellias. The autumn goes busy in clearing up leaves and planting bulbs. Do plant some crocuses and miniature daffodils and hyacinth.
I also appreciate beauty of evergreens more in winter. Nandinas are my favourite evergreens.
I have given up on winter flowering Daphne. Those are so expensive and I have lost almost a dozen over years of trying.
@Dasha on the subject of protecting pots, or not - and this may not apply to you - I do bubblewrap new bare root roses that I pot up in the DA type 6L pots and grow on over winter in my unheated poly. Those are very thin pots with little soil around the roots for protection from frosts. I throw a fleece over them in really bad weather too.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do with this year’s crop though, since my poly is pretty much disintegrated!
Thank you, @Nollie, good to know. It's funny I placed my bareroot order a while back and felt I had lots of time to prepare but now it looks like my roses are about to arrive and I am not ready at all So I might just follow your example and use old DA pots and put them into my greenhouse... Very useful, thank you!
@Dasha I also have hellebores (from the Hellebore Gold Collection), sarcococca (inconspicuous flowers, lovely scent) and skimmia (female for white berries, male for the flowers).
I got a daphne ‘Perfume Princess’ late last year, so hoping to see flowers on it for the first time this winter.
DA dispatch email here too, thankfully only one from them as Im in no fit state to plant... brought back a very unwanted souvenir from Japan, a nasty bout of Covid im stuck in bed! Lots of roses still out here, everything had shot up several feet when I got back! Ive got some confused spring things out too... a few bunches of my once flowering rambler, wedding day have randomly popped up, various clematis (montana reubens fully reflowered??) and, er... CROCUS in the front garden!!
Ive got several Daphne, from gardening express. Lovely plants, worth getting, fill the garden with scent & ive not had hardiness issues thankfully. Lowest temp here ive ever seen has been about -7.
Covid seems to be on the rise.. thankfully not serious as how it was 2 years ago.. Hope you recover soon @JessicaS
I got the DA mail, but not the dispatch one.. so hopefully still got time and few of my pots are empty from this years cull..
Your Harlow Carr makes me regret my decision to leave behind mine @Nollie but it was not as fragrant as advertised nor did it flower well for me.. best to grow as a standard I guess...
Daphne was not successful for me either.. failed twice.. they showed promise the second time but then slowly withered away.. not worth the effort for me..
Good to see some colours coming through from everyone here.. my neglected roses are still pushing out flowers singly.. so not much to post here..
@Dasha if you have a good nursery/ garden centre nearby, then visit them in different seasons to find the flavour of the month/ season.. only problem is, in every visit I ended up in buying 'one more' plant...
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... but some posters on here successfully grow the red and purple ones, which are lush.
I also like polyanthus/primulas and pansies for colour. And early flowering daffs.
Then camellias and azaleas for springtime just before the roses come.
I also appreciate beauty of evergreens more in winter. Nandinas are my favourite evergreens.
I have given up on winter flowering Daphne. Those are so expensive and I have lost almost a dozen over years of trying.
Thank you, @Nollie, good to know. It's funny I placed my bareroot order a while back and felt I had lots of time to prepare but now it looks like my roses are about to arrive and I am not ready at all
I got a daphne ‘Perfume Princess’ late last year, so hoping to see flowers on it for the first time this winter.
Julia Child and dahlia Happy Single Date:
First bloom since spring on Marie Nabonnand:
Mustead Wood, the potted one, looking a bit sprawly now:
Lots of roses still out here, everything had shot up several feet when I got back! Ive got some confused spring things out too... a few bunches of my once flowering rambler, wedding day have randomly popped up, various clematis (montana reubens fully reflowered??) and, er... CROCUS in the front garden!!
Ive got several Daphne, from gardening express. Lovely plants, worth getting, fill the garden with scent & ive not had hardiness issues thankfully. Lowest temp here ive ever seen has been about -7.
I got the DA mail, but not the dispatch one.. so hopefully still got time and few of my pots are empty from this years cull..
Your Harlow Carr makes me regret my decision to leave behind mine @Nollie but it was not as fragrant as advertised nor did it flower well for me.. best to grow as a standard I guess...
Daphne was not successful for me either.. failed twice.. they showed promise the second time but then slowly withered away.. not worth the effort for me..
Good to see some colours coming through from everyone here.. my neglected roses are still pushing out flowers singly.. so not much to post here..
@Dasha if you have a good nursery/ garden centre nearby, then visit them in different seasons to find the flavour of the month/ season.. only problem is, in every visit I ended up in buying 'one more' plant...