I have one growing in my front garden Verdun with several others. It is silvery blue and has seed heads like large wheat. My ma in law called it dune grass and it spreads. Do you have it? I've not seen it at garden centres.
Hello Verdun, are you eating a donut for breakfast? I agree with Yvie - boring swathes of ornamental grasses. I once had a red pennisetum that didn't grow and I have a boring golden carex in a pot that a friend gave me. I think plants grow better when they know you like them! I have roses out from May until December, even if only a few at a time in July and August.
The Pilgrim has started again, lots of buds and some are out. Lovely delicate fragrance in the evening. Has never been ill.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Anyone got Malvern Hills rose? I've picked it out from catalogue to buy over the winter as seems to do what I want for my pergola - soft yellow, few thorns, good disease resistence, repeat flowering rambler. Not seen it in real life though.
I have one. Lovely delicate yellow, scented, small flowers in clusters, repeat rambler (which is rare). Not too rampant. Mine is in a pot, I posted a photo on the previous page.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
We had one of those new fangled Prairie style gardens. We dug it out on the grounds that if you provide a suitable growing condition for Ornamental grasses then couch and creeping fescue and other unwanteds will also like it and boy did they.
Zephirin Drouhin might be thornless, but here it is leafless from mid August onwards because of blackspot which causes the leaves to fall off.
We have Shropshire Lad, and it is definitely as thorny as all the other roses. And it has blackspot, mildew, greenfly and mushy flowers after the over night rain.
Verdun, It's very hard to hide/ignore a good rose, their beauty will always shine through, grass on the other hand.....
To perform at their best roses need to be fed correctly, watered appropriately, pruned at the right time and in the right way and you occasionally have to deal with the odd problem. That sounds familiar. Aah yes, it's the way I treat all my other plants.
If all we had to do was plant and ignore then we wouldn't have any gardening to do.
I do so agree about grasses. I tried some a few years ago, beguiled by the colours of penisetums and blue fescue. Far too wussy for my garden's winters so loads of euros wasted. Miscanthus do well but not, funnily enough, tehse last two years following mild winters. I planted molinia in a damp spot but those tall "transparent" stems broke in the first strong wind so definitely not designed for elegant waving.
I like an occasional bronze carex buchananii but the last of those gave up in a very wet winter a few years ago and that leaves me with another bronze carex form which looks fine for a year or two then gets so long and floppy I have to trim it back to stop it tripping me up and is now self seeding into my paths and rotting in the middle after a cold wet May.
They all look sodden and bedraggled after last night's impressive storms but the roses are standing, with their flower heads held high. Guess what gets my vote.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Not a trace of blackspot on my Shropshire Lad and hardly any thorns, about 2 per stem. It's in a pot. Not yet having another flush of flowers, but usually does in September.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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I have one growing in my front garden Verdun with several others. It is silvery blue and has seed heads like large wheat. My ma in law called it dune grass and it spreads. Do you have it? I've not seen it at garden centres.
Photo taken yesterday.
Hello Verdun, are you eating a donut for breakfast? I agree with Yvie - boring swathes of ornamental grasses. I once had a red pennisetum that didn't grow and I have a boring golden carex in a pot that a friend gave me. I think plants grow better when they know you like them! I have roses out from May until December, even if only a few at a time in July and August.
The Pilgrim has started again, lots of buds and some are out. Lovely delicate fragrance in the evening. Has never been ill.
Anyone got Malvern Hills rose? I've picked it out from catalogue to buy over the winter as seems to do what I want for my pergola - soft yellow, few thorns, good disease resistence, repeat flowering rambler. Not seen it in real life though.
I have one. Lovely delicate yellow, scented, small flowers in clusters, repeat rambler (which is rare). Not too rampant. Mine is in a pot, I posted a photo on the previous page.
Malvern Hills
We had one of those new fangled Prairie style gardens. We dug it out on the grounds that if you provide a suitable growing condition for Ornamental grasses then couch and creeping fescue and other unwanteds will also like it and boy did they.
Zephirin Drouhin might be thornless, but here it is leafless from mid August onwards because of blackspot which causes the leaves to fall off.
We have Shropshire Lad, and it is definitely as thorny as all the other roses. And it has blackspot, mildew, greenfly and mushy flowers after the over night rain.
Verdun, It's very hard to hide/ignore a good rose, their beauty will always shine through, grass on the other hand.....
To perform at their best roses need to be fed correctly, watered appropriately, pruned at the right time and in the right way and you occasionally have to deal with the odd problem. That sounds familiar
. Aah yes, it's the way I treat all my other plants.
If all we had to do was plant and ignore then we wouldn't have any gardening to do.
I do so agree about grasses. I tried some a few years ago, beguiled by the colours of penisetums and blue fescue. Far too wussy for my garden's winters so loads of euros wasted. Miscanthus do well but not, funnily enough, tehse last two years following mild winters. I planted molinia in a damp spot but those tall "transparent" stems broke in the first strong wind so definitely not designed for elegant waving.
I like an occasional bronze carex buchananii but the last of those gave up in a very wet winter a few years ago and that leaves me with another bronze carex form which looks fine for a year or two then gets so long and floppy I have to trim it back to stop it tripping me up and is now self seeding into my paths and rotting in the middle after a cold wet May.
They all look sodden and bedraggled after last night's impressive storms but the roses are standing, with their flower heads held high. Guess what gets my vote.
Not a trace of blackspot on my Shropshire Lad and hardly any thorns, about 2 per stem. It's in a pot. Not yet having another flush of flowers, but usually does in September.
Busy - lovely roses. What's that purple one please?