obelixx - Wow, that's quite a collection you have there. Your garden must smell gorgeous with all those roses. Which is your favourite out of all the roses you currently have?
Ladybird4 - I'm glad to hear the roots are well established. I purchased three potted roses from B&Q about a month ago and each one has very little roots with nearly all the compost in the pot falling away upon pulling the plant out from the pot. So I was a bit wary of paying £21 a plant for something like that.
Lou12 - Thanks. I primarily chose Gertrude Jekyll and Munstead Wood for their scents so I really hope they don't disappoint.
Sammymummy - Did you buy your plant as bare root or potted? I too am planning to grow it as a short climber against the house wall, but in a pot. Are you growing it as a climber?
Tooey - thanks for confirming your potted plants were established plants. Just had a look at Brother Cadgael on David Austins website. It's a gorgeous flower. Appears to have very little thorns on it. Can you confirm if that's the case?
jenny-the-wren - Did you buy the Boscobel as potted or bare roots? My garden is pure clay too but I'm planning to keep all three of mine in pots.
wakeshine- Thanks. When you say it wasn't fully established in the pot, what do you mean? As in the roots weren't pot bound?
Hi Rubi, I planted my Gertrude Jekyll bare root last November so it's in its first year in a narrow border. Because it is now over 5 ft tall with a lot of branches, it fell over and I had to stake in three places. Its stems seem to grow straight rather than arch like other climbers do, and I am thinking to move it later this year to be closer to a fence and train it as a climber. I wonder if any of the forum users has tried it.
Sammymummy I grow mine right up against the fence on tension wires as a climber - Gertrude Jekyll that is - the first year it was quite short just around 3 foot but this year it is sending off tall stems which I think I can start to train on the wires next year.
Brother Cadfael does have thorns but not too many. I've also got the Lady of Shallot and I'm forever snagging myself on that one. But it's such a beautiful colour it's worth the odd scratch!
I don't have a favourite - each is where it is because it looks good in a mixed bed and they're not all in one formal rose bed - but I am tending more and more towards the simpler flowered forms when I buy new ones because they're good for pollinators.
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Obelixx, what plants would you recommend between roses? I underplanted mine (I have 5 in a narrow border) with geranium Ann Folkard, following the common wisdom and a salvia (good for fungal problem) between the roses but the whole thing looks rather very busy.
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Thanks for all your replies.
obelixx - Wow, that's quite a collection you have there. Your garden must smell gorgeous with all those roses. Which is your favourite out of all the roses you currently have?
Ladybird4 - I'm glad to hear the roots are well established. I purchased three potted roses from B&Q about a month ago and each one has very little roots with nearly all the compost in the pot falling away upon pulling the plant out from the pot. So I was a bit wary of paying £21 a plant for something like that.
Lou12 - Thanks. I primarily chose Gertrude Jekyll and Munstead Wood for their scents so I really hope they don't disappoint.
Sammymummy - Did you buy your plant as bare root or potted? I too am planning to grow it as a short climber against the house wall, but in a pot. Are you growing it as a climber?
Tooey - thanks for confirming your potted plants were established plants. Just had a look at Brother Cadgael on David Austins website. It's a gorgeous flower. Appears to have very little thorns on it. Can you confirm if that's the case?
jenny-the-wren - Did you buy the Boscobel as potted or bare roots? My garden is pure clay too but I'm planning to keep all three of mine in pots.
wakeshine- Thanks. When you say it wasn't fully established in the pot, what do you mean? As in the roots weren't pot bound?
Hi Rubi, I planted my Gertrude Jekyll bare root last November so it's in its first year in a narrow border. Because it is now over 5 ft tall with a lot of branches, it fell over and I had to stake in three places. Its stems seem to grow straight rather than arch like other climbers do, and I am thinking to move it later this year to be closer to a fence and train it as a climber. I wonder if any of the forum users has tried it.
By the way good luck with your DA roses Rubi. I love roses and also have a Desdemona (cream) and it is beautiful and very fragrant.
Sammymummy I grow mine right up against the fence on tension wires as a climber - Gertrude Jekyll that is - the first year it was quite short just around 3 foot but this year it is sending off tall stems which I think I can start to train on the wires next year.
So it'll take three years before it climbs.
Brother Cadfael does have thorns but not too many. I've also got the Lady of Shallot and I'm forever snagging myself on that one. But it's such a beautiful colour it's worth the odd scratch!
I don't have a favourite - each is where it is because it looks good in a mixed bed and they're not all in one formal rose bed - but I am tending more and more towards the simpler flowered forms when I buy new ones because they're good for pollinators.
Thank you Lou, I will probably move mine in the autumn as it's too tall for other floribundas in the border.
Obelixx, what plants would you recommend between roses? I underplanted mine (I have 5 in a narrow border) with geranium Ann Folkard, following the common wisdom and a salvia (good for fungal problem) between the roses but the whole thing looks rather very busy.
I have all kinds of stuff in my rose bed, I'm going to probably have to move some of it in a few years time or it will be a bit overcrowded.