Good news about your car @Dovefromabove. I hope you find a suitable car soon.
I had a great day at Peter Beales. I came back with new 2 roses. One was a present from PB and the other I bought but they gave me a 10% discount.
The day started with coffee in the restaurant and meeting Ian and Matt, the 2 rose experts, and the 9 of us on the course. One lady had come all the way from York.
The garden was sopping wet so we started the course in a marquee. They had put lots of potted roses and rose arches with rose canes tied on them or in pots in the marquee. The talk started with planting roses, then pruning roses, HTs, floribundas, shrubs, demonstrating using the potted roses. We had a look around the waterlogged garden which was looking pristine. We were shown the pruned roses on the pergolas, photos will follow when I've sorted them. Probably put them on the Rose thread.
Then we went for lunch in the restaurant, I had 3 fat sausages with mash and mixed vegetables and lots of gravy then lemon meringue roulade.
After that we went to a barn, there was a fan heater in it, to see films of pruned roses in various gardens with before and after and flowering photos. Also photos of Chelsea Flower Shows, I think they've won 29 gold medals.
That sounds a very interesting day @Busy-Lizzie, did it give you the confidence to be a bit bolder when pruning? How nice to be given a rose as a presie as well.
Good news about the car @Dovefromabove, now for the search for a new one.
We've had a good day as well because the hedge men turned up at 11 am a day early looking rather sheepish. It was more convenient for me however rather than having to get up early tomorrow when my sister is here. She's been down south helping out atĀ her twin granddaughters 4th birthday party - a joint affair with another pair of twin girls - 60 very excited little girls, disco, foam, bubbles, face painting etc. Lots of siblings, parents, other grans and a surprising number of young dads as well. She was shattered when she eventually got here! Going to have a lie in tomorrow morning before the long drive home.
Lovely sunset @AuntyRach, we didn't have that here or if we did, I missed it.
Morning everyone. Your days have been interesting by the sound of it. Weāre still waiting for some rain. Since Wednesday is town day, no doubt itāll pour. š
It appears to have been dry here overnight ā¦ weāve still got plenty of water we can send you @Pat E Ā ā¦ loads of roads in Suffolk and Norfolk are still flooded šĀ
I went to bed feeling a bit āchestyā and have woken with a snotty nose ā¦ I feel perfectly fine so itās probably just a bit of a cold ā¦ but Iāve got to go and pick up a prescription so Iāll get some cough mixture and Beechams, just to be on the safe side.Ā
Hope everyoneās had a reasonable night ā¦ I was listening the other day to someone on the radio explaining that waking in the night and ādoing thingsā then going back to bed used to be a perfectly normal way of going on. It was only more recently that we decided that 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep was what we need ā¦ š¤Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Good news about your car @Dovefromabove. I hope you find a suitable car soon.
I had a great day at Peter Beales. I came back with new 2 roses. One was a present from PB and the other I bought but they gave me a 10% discount.
The day started with coffee in the restaurant and meeting Ian and Matt, the 2 rose experts, and the 9 of us on the course. One lady had come all the way from York.
The garden was sopping wet so we started the course in a marquee. They had put lots of potted roses and rose arches with rose canes tied on them or in pots in the marquee. The talk started with planting roses, then pruning roses, HTs, floribundas, shrubs, demonstrating using the potted roses. We had a look around the waterlogged garden which was looking pristine. We were shown the pruned roses on the pergolas, photos will follow when I've sorted them. Probably put them on the Rose thread.
Then we went for lunch in the restaurant, I had 3 fat sausages with mash and mixed vegetables and lots of gravy then lemon meringue roulade.
After that we went to a barn, there was a fan heater in it, to see films of pruned roses in various gardens with before and after and flowering photos. Also photos of Chelsea Flower Shows, I think they've won 29 gold medals.
Next, back to the cafƩ for a cup of tea before going back to the barn for demonstrations of pruning ramblers and climbers. For rambling roses on their pergolas they prune between November and Christmas to within 6 inches of the supporting framework, training 2 or 3 canes over each arch then snipping of the side shoots to 2 - 4 ins. Ian said some of the ramblers are so vigorous that if they don't prune severely like that then you wouldn't be able to walk under the arches. Also they like light to shine down into the pergolas to stop the grass from dying. Then we were all given a potted rose to prune and when Ian approved the pruning he said we could keep our roses. I had Sweet Siluetta, a 6ft rambling patio rose. The rose I bought was Purple Skyliner because Matt said it is OK with some shade.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've posted photos on the Rose Thread.
https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1077475/roses-autumn-winter-23-24#latest
Good news about the car @Dovefromabove, now for the search for a new one.
We've had a good day as well because the hedge men turned up at 11 am a day early looking rather sheepish. It was more convenient for me however rather than having to get up early tomorrow when my sister is here. She's been down south helping out atĀ her twin granddaughters 4th birthday party - a joint affair with another pair of twin girls - 60 very excited little girls, disco, foam, bubbles, face painting etc. Lots of siblings, parents, other grans and a surprising number of young dads as well. She was shattered when she eventually got here! Going to have a lie in tomorrow morning before the long drive home.
Lovely sunset @AuntyRach, we didn't have that here or if we did, I missed it.
I went to bed feeling a bit āchestyā and have woken with a snotty nose ā¦ I feel perfectly fine so itās probably just a bit of a cold ā¦ but Iāve got to go and pick up a prescription so Iāll get some cough mixture and Beechams, just to be on the safe side.Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
terrible night and grumpy morning but I just got cheered up by the delivery of my Osmanthus variegatus. Plants in good nick and well packaged.Ā
What a lovely day for you @Busy-Lizzie and for us too, thank you for sharing.
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