Happy New Year Nik. Good to have you back. Super trouper looks keen to get going for the new season(bit like me!) and your rose cuttings are looking really healthy.
And a Happy New Year to you too Wendy! Super Trouper is looking to be quite winter hardy - it had buds much later than everything else too, although they didn't get enough sun and warmth to open in the end. Last year my first rose was at Easter on a bare root overwintering in the greenhouse, but I wouldn't be surprised to see ST first past the post this year. My pulse is quickening already at the prospect of a new season with the surprises and even disappointments it will bring!
Hi Nik, lovely sunny day today hope you are making the most of it. Your roses are all looking great, I'm sure your cuttings will do well. Might the bronze evergreen be a Cryptomeria Japonica? Possibly elegans. Take care.
Yes, Soulgirl, well done, you're right, it is a cryptomeria elegans - I just dug into the slightly prickly foliage to find the label ! I fully expect to lose over half of the cuttings in the spring, as I usually do, but it's just something I do for interest. Although I don't normally take the cuttings that late in the season. I am quite excited for this year since I have obtained permission from my other half to effectively create a new rose bed in a prime sunny part of the garden. And I have some interesting new roses to put there too - which I hope to be able to show here in the summer! At the moment that are enjoying the protection of the greenhouse to encourage growth. I won't be digging any ice-hard ground this week though. Also exciting - we're planning an excursion to see a murmuration of starlings nearby at dusk today.
@@nikkonch Lovely! I had a murmuration fly over me in the garden 10 days ago it was an unbelievable sight, it was the sound that made me look up and there they were, it was quite astonishing and such a lovely thing to experience was only a few seconds actually overhead but was quite wonderful. Looking forward to seeing your new rose bed, sounds lovely.
wonderful: its getting to be that time of year!
Happy New Year Nik. Good to have you back. Super trouper looks keen to get going for the new season(bit like me!) and your rose cuttings are looking really healthy.
And a Happy New Year to you too Wendy! Super Trouper is looking to be quite winter hardy - it had buds much later than everything else too, although they didn't get enough sun and warmth to open in the end. Last year my first rose was at Easter on a bare root overwintering in the greenhouse, but I wouldn't be surprised to see ST first past the post this year. My pulse is quickening already at the prospect of a new season with the surprises and even disappointments it will bring!
Hi Nik, lovely sunny day today hope you are making the most of it. Your roses are all looking great, I'm sure your cuttings will do well. Might the bronze evergreen be a Cryptomeria Japonica? Possibly elegans. Take care.
Yes, Soulgirl, well done, you're right, it is a cryptomeria elegans - I just dug into the slightly prickly foliage to find the label ! I fully expect to lose over half of the cuttings in the spring, as I usually do, but it's just something I do for interest. Although I don't normally take the cuttings that late in the season. I am quite excited for this year since I have obtained permission from my other half to effectively create a new rose bed in a prime sunny part of the garden. And I have some interesting new roses to put there too - which I hope to be able to show here in the summer! At the moment that are enjoying the protection of the greenhouse to encourage growth. I won't be digging any ice-hard ground this week though. Also exciting - we're planning an excursion to see a murmuration of starlings nearby at dusk today.
@@nikkonch Lovely! I had a murmuration fly over me in the garden 10 days ago it was an unbelievable sight, it was the sound that made me look up and there they were, it was quite astonishing and such a lovely thing to experience was only a few seconds actually overhead but was quite wonderful. Looking forward to seeing your new rose bed, sounds lovely.