Oops - my 'bad', as the Americans say(!) - as I mistakenly hadn't made the settings to that Photobucket folder 'public' - but I have now remedied this so the album should now be 'public' & therefore viewable!:
Yay! we got there in the end, I have put a comment on the other forum, a certain poster there is very keen on spraying everything with pestacides and advised you to do that.
Please dont, try to control by other methods. Washing up liquid diluted will kill them, and that wont harm ladybirds , bees, etc. As will a diluted garlic spray.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Yes, we are hoping to get a larger/deeper container than this green plastic trug. As the trug is only 30cm (height) x 40cm (diameter). It was only utilised as a temporary solution to re-pot the rose last year, i.e. as an 'emergency' option, as it was all we had to hand and - being larger & stronger than the shop's plastic pot - was at least an immediate improvement!
By next year! we might have finally found the time to get that permanent container! Fingers crossed!
Thank you for the photos. I agree with Lyn, but I would use liquid soap. I don't use any pesticides know and the natural balance is restored. Some years, of course, there are more aphids than one would like but others years there are none. I leave it to the natural predators like ladybirds.
I think the rose, lovely flower, will need a new pot next year, some of the leaves look a bit pale. In pots they need more feeding and watering than usual.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Thanks for your advice - and the lovely photos, above, of your own roses.
Re your "pots, but they are 50cms deep and 50cms in diameter. I have 2 in a trough, but it also is 50cms deep and 100cms long, 45cms wide." These sound great. I am hoping we can find something similar in an online shop so that such large &/or heavy containers get delivered to us!
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I couldn't get those photos, link didn't work, nor did copy and paste.
Its a privae photo bucket Lizzie.
Hiya!
Oops - my 'bad', as the Americans say(!) - as I mistakenly hadn't made the settings to that Photobucket folder 'public' - but I have now remedied this so the album should now be 'public' & therefore viewable!:
http://s1235.photobucket.com/user/In-The-Frame/slideshow/Pink%20rose%20climber%20High%20Hopes
Yay! we got there in the end, I have put a comment on the other forum, a certain poster there is very keen on spraying everything with pestacides and advised you to do that.
Please dont, try to control by other methods. Washing up liquid diluted will kill them, and that wont harm ladybirds , bees, etc. As will a diluted garlic spray.
Hi all
Yes, we are hoping to get a larger/deeper container than this green plastic trug. As the trug is only 30cm (height) x 40cm (diameter). It was only utilised as a temporary solution to re-pot the rose last year, i.e. as an 'emergency' option, as it was all we had to hand and - being larger & stronger than the shop's plastic pot - was at least an immediate improvement!
By next year!
we might have finally found the time to get that permanent container! Fingers crossed! 
Thanks, Lyn, for your postings at both forums.
Yes, we shall try for a less 'chemical' approach for treating it. I like the idea of using the diluted washing up liquid!
Thank you for the photos. I agree with Lyn, but I would use liquid soap. I don't use any pesticides know and the natural balance is restored. Some years, of course, there are more aphids than one would like but others years there are none. I leave it to the natural predators like ladybirds.
I think the rose, lovely flower, will need a new pot next year, some of the leaves look a bit pale. In pots they need more feeding and watering than usual.
Hi Busy-Lizzie
Thanks for your advice - and the lovely photos, above, of your own roses.
Re your "pots, but they are 50cms deep and 50cms in diameter. I have 2 in a trough, but it also is 50cms deep and 100cms long, 45cms wide." These sound great. I am hoping we can find something similar in an online shop so that such large &/or heavy containers get delivered to us!