Hi Verdun Have to say the only plant I really won't tolerate...apart from the obvious like knotweed...is monbretia. Can't stand it and replace it as soon as possible but having several "large in the middle of nowhere full of rabbit and deer" gardens any kind of flower is a blessing! I let things like comfrey mint and lemon balm fight it out. plant honesty and sweet rocket, wild mallow. All thugs that I wouldn't ever use in my own garden.
Where are you that roses don't grow well? Tried to look at profiles earlier and computer said no!
Soz nothing to do with subject, but Verdon we had our honeymoon in St. Ives 32 yrs ago..oops can't be right I'm 26 & 1/2. Still got a pencil sketch that a local harbour artist drew of me..very nice, lovely in fact..but his guide dog had the afternoon off.
A cornishman/woman! Still don't know can't check profile lol. Mums down there in Looe. Have you tried climbers? She seems to have managed ok with seagull...rambler rather than climber? I too love crocosmia lucifer and spread that round. Like all the others too Dove just not the horrid orange thingy lol. Bunnies don't eat it and deer not keen.
...just to give a different verdict here, roses will grow perfectly well in Cornwall...
...it's a bit of an old wives tale/myth that they don't.... in fact because of the mild climate rare Tea roses, tender elsewhere, can be exceptional... along with so many others... I grew one of the rarest tea roses in the world in Cornwall, called 'Marie Nabonnand' and it thrived - 5 foot tall in 2 years...
''The Cornish Rose Company is 5 years old and came into being because Pocock’s Roses was sending more roses to Cornwall than any other county in the UK. This was a surprise as people were always saying ‘you can’t grow roses in Cornwall’! We presumed that either the roses were dying and being replaced or customers were successfully growing roses. After some market research, we decided that there was a need for a ‘proper’ rose nursery in Cornwall (one that grows from start to finish, not just buying in roses and potting them up). Following the purchase of some very weedy land and a lot of hard work, The Cornish Rose Company took root!
Our aim in Cornwall is to grow good, healthy varieties that will withstand Cornwall’s damp climate and give satisfaction in the garden with normal cultivation - i.e. Feeding and pruning but little or no spraying against fungal diseases''.
if anyone is interested in roses, and they want to see how they are grown right from the budding stage, there is an interesting 15 minute video to be found on their website.... if you have the time...
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Hi Verdun
Have to say the only plant I really won't tolerate...apart from the obvious like knotweed...is monbretia. Can't stand it and replace it as soon as possible but having several "large in the middle of nowhere full of rabbit and deer" gardens any kind of flower is a blessing! I let things like comfrey mint and lemon balm fight it out. plant honesty and sweet rocket, wild mallow. All thugs that I wouldn't ever use in my own garden.
Where are you that roses don't grow well? Tried to look at profiles earlier and computer said no!
Hi, good thread... I've been outside and have just hung up my coat
and I am less than 26 as well, except that I am also numerically dyslexsic.
Soz nothing to do with subject, but Verdon we had our honeymoon in St. Ives 32 yrs ago..oops can't be right I'm 26 & 1/2. Still got a pencil sketch that a local harbour artist drew of me..very nice, lovely in fact..but his guide dog had the afternoon off.
Hang on a minute - there are some gorgeous crocosmias - lots bred here in Norwich
http://www.norwichinbloom.co.uk/CrocosmiaLocalRoots.html
They're not all thugs
look here http://www.thecrocosmiagardens.net/5330361
You're being brave Verdun - one wave of her wand and you could be a toad!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A cornishman/woman! Still don't know can't check profile lol. Mums down there in Looe. Have you tried climbers? She seems to have managed ok with seagull...rambler rather than climber? I too love crocosmia lucifer and spread that round. Like all the others too Dove just not the horrid orange thingy lol. Bunnies don't eat it and deer not keen.
Oops yes I do you said plantsman
Welcome addict
...just to give a different verdict here, roses will grow perfectly well in Cornwall...
...it's a bit of an old wives tale/myth that they don't.... in fact because of the mild climate rare Tea roses, tender elsewhere, can be exceptional... along with so many others... I grew one of the rarest tea roses in the world in Cornwall, called 'Marie Nabonnand' and it thrived - 5 foot tall in 2 years...
''The Cornish Rose Company is 5 years old and came into being because Pocock’s Roses was sending more roses to Cornwall than any other county in the UK. This was a surprise as people were always saying ‘you can’t grow roses in Cornwall’! We presumed that either the roses were dying and being replaced or customers were successfully growing roses. After some market research, we decided that there was a need for a ‘proper’ rose nursery in Cornwall (one that grows from start to finish, not just buying in roses and potting them up). Following the purchase of some very weedy land and a lot of hard work, The Cornish Rose Company took root!
Our aim in Cornwall is to grow good, healthy varieties that will withstand Cornwall’s damp climate and give satisfaction in the garden with normal cultivation - i.e. Feeding and pruning but little or no spraying against fungal diseases''.
if anyone is interested in roses, and they want to see how they are grown right from the budding stage, there is an interesting 15 minute video to be found on their website.... if you have the time...
http://www.garden-roses.co.uk/about-us/