Snoodle - It looks quite like Bonica I've grown it three times now - a lovely rose which copes with a bit of shade and makes a lovely cut flower - an absolute picture in a jug with some Ladies Mantle .
It does grow quite lax and I see that nowadays it's advertised as procumbent or groundcover - I used to prune it like a floribunda which kept the stems shorter and a bit more sturdy.
I've planted another one this year - this time it's on a bank so I don't mind if some of it flops a bit - we'll have to see how it goes.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've got two bonica and two ferdys - planted symmetrically either side of my steps. Trouble is I can't remember which way round I planted them...
Just had a wander round Apuldrum Roses where I got them from. Ferdy is down as ground cover, Bonica as shrub rose. The picture I took is from where I intended to plant ground cover so think its Ferdy. Although perfectly possible I mixed them up on planting! (My achillea in my hot colours bed has just opened to show its lovely lilac colour.... so the one in the pot waiting for the blues bed to be ready must be red then....)
Oh, so the worms won't exactly be enjoying my handwork then...
Ah Dove, that looks like the pink roses in the "shrub" position - shape matches. Writing them down now so don't forget again.
I've also got a Jacques Cartier and Felica that I don't know which is which. Neither have flowered. One is already huge, other small. So there's the clue...off to hunt.
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The new bed...
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
La Sevilliana
Bonica (I think!)
Worm's eye view... (do worms have eyes?)
Think the pink is Ferdy, not Bonica. Sigh! What did I do with the planting plan...?
Snoodle - It looks quite like Bonica
I've grown it three times now - a lovely rose which copes with a bit of shade and makes a lovely cut flower - an absolute picture in a jug with some Ladies Mantle 
.
It does grow quite lax and I see that nowadays it's advertised as procumbent or groundcover - I used to prune it like a floribunda which kept the stems shorter and a bit more sturdy.
I've planted another one this year - this time it's on a bank so I don't mind if some of it flops a bit - we'll have to see how it goes.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This is my newly planted Bonica when it was just coming into bloom a couple of weeks ago - now it has clusters of several blooms.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've got two bonica and two ferdys - planted symmetrically either side of my steps. Trouble is I can't remember which way round I planted them...
Just had a wander round Apuldrum Roses where I got them from. Ferdy is down as ground cover, Bonica as shrub rose. The picture I took is from where I intended to plant ground cover so think its Ferdy. Although perfectly possible I mixed them up on planting! (My achillea in my hot colours bed has just opened to show its lovely lilac colour.... so the one in the pot waiting for the blues bed to be ready must be red then....
)
Oh, so the worms won't exactly be enjoying my handwork then...
Ah Dove, that looks like the pink roses in the "shrub" position - shape matches. Writing them down now so don't forget again.
I've also got a Jacques Cartier and Felica that I don't know which is which. Neither have flowered. One is already huge, other small. So there's the clue...off to hunt.