I haven't got that rose, but now, having seen the link, I want it.
There are lots of roses growing in big pots in David Austin's garden and I grow them in pots too, just need to keep them more fed and watered than ones in the ground.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Roses are gross feeders so you will need to feed constantly, throughout the whole of the growing season, not just a dribble in the Spring, after the first year. I have Gertrude Jeykyll from David Austen in a 2 cubic sq ft container outside my door, glorious on a summers evening.
I no longer have it but one of my favourites is Merryl Street, almost pure white, with the faintest pink overlay, but a wonderful perfume. Not a strong grower and not a David Austen. He really does beat most roses hands down for perfume.
I bought Lady Emma Hamilton from David Austin last June, planted it in a pot, and it flowered about four times, gorgeous scent. My two favourite climbers from David Austin are also in big pots against the house, The Pilgrim and A Shropshire Lad.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
The rose I meant is Margaret Merril, not Merril Street!
. A semi double white with the mearest hint of pink but a really lovely scent. It is a floribunda, around 3/4 ft in height.
I love the quartered flowers David Austen breeds, lovely. Thank goodness the family are breeding plants with perfume,a rose with no scent has no place in my garden, no matter how beautiful it may be.
I bought a bare root David Austen rose, Anne Boleyn, a small shrub with light pink flowers, the really full ones. I've got it in a small raised bed and its doing ok. I have a red one in the front garden but I don't know what type it is but it flowers its socks off. I also have rosa moyes geranium in a big pot. I need to get more I think.
My one's in full sun and get a little variegated shade from a Gaura. It was the best it has been last year. I also like Arthur Bell. This has deep yellow flowers that gradually fade to lemon white as they get older and have a lovely perfume.
I have several DA roses and some do better than others in my somewhat exposed garden with long, wet winters that can also turn bitterly cold and dry for 2 to 3 weeks at a time.
My newest, Jacqueline du Pré has yet to experience a real winter as last year's was very mild so her hardiness remains to be established but Gertrude Jekyll, Sceptr'd Isle, Generous Gardener, Constance Spry, Queen of Sweden, Teasing Georgia and Crocus Rose all do well.
William Shakespeare is a wuss but did well this summer cos he wasn't frazzled by a normal winter. Benjamin Britten always seems in two minds about thriving or struggling. Molyneux and Grace curled up their toes in a -25C winter as did one of my Malvern Hills, a New Dawn and a Guinée but they had been bashed by a -32C the year before.
Tess of the D'Urbevilles had to be moved so I could take down her trellis panel and let a mini bulldozer pass and she positively thrived in her year in a pot against a south facing wall. It remains to be see how she'll cope now she's been moved to a sligtly less exposed position than before. Geoff Hamilton was being swamped by a creeping juniper and Munstead Wood, new last year, didn't do well so they are in pots in the greenhouse to recover and shelter and I'll find them somewhere better later this spring or just nurture them in big pots against that south facing wall.
I don't see the point of a rose with no perfume.
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I haven't got that rose, but now, having seen the link, I want it.
There are lots of roses growing in big pots in David Austin's garden and I grow them in pots too, just need to keep them more fed and watered than ones in the ground.
Roses are gross feeders so you will need to feed constantly, throughout the whole of the growing season, not just a dribble in the Spring, after the first year. I have Gertrude Jeykyll from David Austen in a 2 cubic sq ft container outside my door, glorious on a summers evening.
I no longer have it but one of my favourites is Merryl Street, almost pure white, with the faintest pink overlay, but a wonderful perfume. Not a strong grower and not a David Austen. He really does beat most roses hands down for perfume.
Oh yes I feed them regularly, can't wait for them to bloom again this year
Does anyone have a favourite Rose that they've grown in a container?
I am going to place my order for another tomorrow, reason why I haven't already is because I keep changing my mind on which one to get! lol
I bought Lady Emma Hamilton from David Austin last June, planted it in a pot, and it flowered about four times, gorgeous scent. My two favourite climbers from David Austin are also in big pots against the house, The Pilgrim and A Shropshire Lad.
Correction.
The rose I meant is Margaret Merril, not Merril Street!
. A semi double white with the mearest hint of pink but a really lovely scent. It is a floribunda, around 3/4 ft in height.
I love the quartered flowers David Austen breeds, lovely. Thank goodness the family are breeding plants with perfume,a rose with no scent has no place in my garden, no matter how beautiful it may be.
I bought a bare root David Austen rose, Anne Boleyn, a small shrub with light pink flowers, the really full ones. I've got it in a small raised bed and its doing ok. I have a red one in the front garden but I don't know what type it is but it flowers its socks off. I also have rosa moyes geranium in a big pot. I need to get more I think.
My one's in full sun and get a little variegated shade from a Gaura. It was the best it has been last year. I also like Arthur Bell. This has deep yellow flowers that gradually fade to lemon white as they get older and have a lovely perfume.
I have several DA roses and some do better than others in my somewhat exposed garden with long, wet winters that can also turn bitterly cold and dry for 2 to 3 weeks at a time.
My newest, Jacqueline du Pré has yet to experience a real winter as last year's was very mild so her hardiness remains to be established but Gertrude Jekyll, Sceptr'd Isle, Generous Gardener, Constance Spry, Queen of Sweden, Teasing Georgia and Crocus Rose all do well.
William Shakespeare is a wuss but did well this summer cos he wasn't frazzled by a normal winter. Benjamin Britten always seems in two minds about thriving or struggling. Molyneux and Grace curled up their toes in a -25C winter as did one of my Malvern Hills, a New Dawn and a Guinée but they had been bashed by a -32C the year before.
Tess of the D'Urbevilles had to be moved so I could take down her trellis panel and let a mini bulldozer pass and she positively thrived in her year in a pot against a south facing wall. It remains to be see how she'll cope now she's been moved to a sligtly less exposed position than before. Geoff Hamilton was being swamped by a creeping juniper and Munstead Wood, new last year, didn't do well so they are in pots in the greenhouse to recover and shelter and I'll find them somewhere better later this spring or just nurture them in big pots against that south facing wall.
I don't see the point of a rose with no perfume.
Thanks for all the wonderful feedback