Thank you, @cooldoc. Just took a risk and ordered Harlow Carr and Golden Celebration standards. It's our 15 year anniversary so have an excuse for two.😁
@Alfie_ were you looking at the Harlow Carr standard, too?
@WAMS Ha, I was about to post the same!! I accidentally ordered a Boscobel standard for out the front... NATURE23 works too for 15% off. I wanted that rose & fancied another standard but they didn't have any at the shop so I figured thats not a bad price either. They do vary courier ive noticed. Ive had parcelforce in the past. If Evri do mess up, DA are so good at replacing, its worth a punt.
Thanks, JessicaS! I bet Boscobel would be an amazing standard (and fragrant). My shrub did not stop blooming till this cold snap. Fingers crossed it is Parcelforce.
As you say it isn't a bad price esp with the discount bringing them to ~£39. I have spent about the same on 5L rhododendron plants, for example.
@WAMS yes I bought it late summer this year. Arrived well packaged but defoliated (they do say it normally does arrive like this).
Put on a nice first display earlier this month which I recently posted:
I was looking for a standard and looking over previous threads and I must have ordered it within 5 minutes of seeing @pitter-patter’s one.
Well being looking healthy and flowering away:
Next to a camellia I moved into a large pot that looks geared up for a good display next spring 🤞
@JessicaS some fine choices there. I think PAoK, although a bit unruly and a few health issues, produces some of the most spectacular blooms out of all the Austins I have.
@Alfie_ im a sucker for the classic Austin English Rose! I love PAOK so far and Penelope is looking to be a nice rose too, certainly fast repeats. Ive acquired Alnwick and Geoffrey Hamilton recently too to add to my existing Cadfael, Shalott, bring me sunshine, crown princess, munstead wood & lady Emma Hamilton, so im looking forward to those two come summer! They are joining Desdemona in pots out the front over some drain access covers.
They had Harlow Carr standards at the gardens, they look lovely and im not suprised Pitter Patters beautiful specimen sold a few .
Just got a delivery from the ever-reliable Yodel. Some imbecile of a woman apparently ordered about 200 allium bulbs this summer. Who would do such a thing?!
You have so many of the most beautiful DAs, Jessica. I just got Abraham Darby potted up. High hopes!
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@Alfie_ were you looking at the Harlow Carr standard, too?
As you say it isn't a bad price esp with the discount bringing them to ~£39. I have spent about the same on 5L rhododendron plants, for example.
Pitter-patter is responsible for a LOT of purchases, I feel. Still thinking about his Lilac Bouquet
They had Harlow Carr standards at the gardens, they look lovely and im not suprised Pitter Patters beautiful specimen sold a few
You have so many of the most beautiful DAs, Jessica. I just got Abraham Darby potted up. High hopes!
Guilty as Charged - over the last 12 months I have worked out I have bought 17 new roses! Of those 11 were DAs.