I'm sure they will Lily Pilly.... if one of them is 'The Generous Gardener' then 2 or 3 seasons before showing its better side... patience pays off with these...
Hi emma, i believe DA offer a 5 year guarantee, have you emailed your concerns to them, i'm sure they would like to help you.
I bought Rambling Rector and Princess Maragarite from DA last year. Planted PM on xmas day last year, she was a bit slow to get started and i emailed DA and they reassured me that she needs to get her roots down first before climbing. She did exactly that, flowered a little then took off up the arch and is now flowering again. Rambling Rector was planted much earlier in the year and flowered its socks off. I did feed both woth a slow release fertiliser and kept watered and mulched.
I hope your rose picks up soon Emma, it is so disappointing when they don't perform as we hoped ?
Does Emma perhaps mean she has not received her roses yet?
If they are bare root they send them out in November. I made an order yesterday and got that despatch 'date' but I think it would be the same date even if I had made the order before now.
They have different dispatch dates for different ordering dates. My OH ordered 3 Gertrude Jekyll for me for Christmas, but he didn't order until early December so the roses came early February (I think, can't remember exactly).
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Has anyone had any experience growing Iceburg pink or Iceburg burgundy floribundas? I have always grown the traditional white Iceburg and wondered if the others have the same growing habit. Also has anyone had success growing roses bought from the Parkers catalogue?
Hello. You could try starting a new thread with your question. This is an old thread about David Austin roses.
I have never grown Iceburg apart from white ones and I'm must admit I wouldn't buy roses from Parkers. There are good rose breeders such as David Austin and Peter Beales.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
dominia30... I completely agree about Trevor White roses, in fact I try to point people towards them as a first point of call if you are looking for a particular variety, as I have found their grafted roses to be larger with huge roots, and cheaper, compared to other better known suppliers...
I went to Trevor White‘s website because of your post and found the exact three I was after a lot cheaper than DA which was a moot point because one of them was out of stock.
Honorine de Brabant, Variegata di Bologna and Ferdinand Pichard, came to £38.80 delivered which is reasonable for the sheer volume of border they are going to take up - the border actually runs up in a strip dividing the border garden from the mini orchard so they will be visible 360 degrees.
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I'm sure they will Lily Pilly.... if one of them is 'The Generous Gardener' then 2 or 3 seasons before showing its better side... patience pays off with these...
So far they have my money and I have no roses!
Hi emma, i believe DA offer a 5 year guarantee, have you emailed your concerns to them, i'm sure they would like to help you.
I bought Rambling Rector and Princess Maragarite from DA last year. Planted PM on xmas day last year, she was a bit slow to get started and i emailed DA and they reassured me that she needs to get her roots down first before climbing. She did exactly that, flowered a little then took off up the arch and is now flowering again. Rambling Rector was planted much earlier in the year and flowered its socks off. I did feed both woth a slow release fertiliser and kept watered and mulched.
I hope your rose picks up soon Emma, it is so disappointing when they don't perform as we hoped ?
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Does Emma perhaps mean she has not received her roses yet?
If they are bare root they send them out in November. I made an order yesterday and got that despatch 'date' but I think it would be the same date even if I had made the order before now.
That is a good point VS hadn't thought of that ?
They have different dispatch dates for different ordering dates. My OH ordered 3 Gertrude Jekyll for me for Christmas, but he didn't order until early December so the roses came early February (I think, can't remember exactly).
Just bought Golden Celebration and a couple more container-grown for £7.50 each at Apuldram Roses for my new garden.
Golden Celebration has been my best DA rose in the last 12 years.
Has anyone had any experience growing Iceburg pink or Iceburg burgundy floribundas? I have always grown the traditional white Iceburg and wondered if the others have the same growing habit. Also has anyone had success growing roses bought from the Parkers catalogue?
Hello. You could try starting a new thread with your question. This is an old thread about David Austin roses.
I have never grown Iceburg apart from white ones and I'm must admit I wouldn't buy roses from Parkers. There are good rose breeders such as David Austin and Peter Beales.
I went to Trevor White‘s website because of your post and found the exact three I was after a lot cheaper than DA which was a moot point because one of them was out of stock.
Honorine de Brabant, Variegata di Bologna and Ferdinand Pichard, came to £38.80 delivered which is reasonable for the sheer volume of border they are going to take up - the border actually runs up in a strip dividing the border garden from the mini orchard so they will be visible 360 degrees.