My Princess Anne has thrown up a massive stem just like your Abraham Darby. Did you add all the Roses to your garden or were some inherited? I had a blank canvas when I bought my house and it's been a labour of love over the years getting it sorted and digging in lots of organic matter as the builders just threw down a bit of top soil when they finished their job. I daren't add up how much I've spent on plants especially the David Austin Roses but an old work colleague once told me that there are no pockets in shrouds!
That Abraham Darby was actually a Gertrude Jekyll - it's difficult to keep all the names straight (now I can understand my mother going through all my siblings' names before getting the right one when telling us off!). I know some DA roses can turn or be turned into climbers - since these tall canes seem not to bear many flowers when they grow vertically, I wonder if it would not be best to cut them down early on. I think all of the roses, bar two in the front garden, are my purchases. That bottom bed was for our first two years here a veggie bed with the local heavy red clay. I have lost count of all the compost and soil improver that we have put in there. Besides that expense the cost of the roses is tiny! My father would always say (rather confusingly) of spendthrifts "He spends money like a man with no hands." Where the garden is concerned, I am that man.
Lovely tour around your garden nik. Good to see these worts and all walk arounds I think. Some roses doing very well and some not so much this year which I think is real life. I think some of yours are doing better than mine and vise versa so interesting to see. I’m sure you have the best ancient mariner within the world of RUclips :) looks fab. How are you going to prune that come winter? I’ve said this year I’m going to leave an absolute max of 4 stems coming up from one rose but leave those stems a little taller to get some height on my younger roses. Your new purchases I’m excited about. :) and good on you for highlighting some questions. I can only assume another cut and paste gone wrong. Best of luck with them I hope they come through as the ones you wished for. The scent of mum in a million for my nose is intense :) a lovely tour nik thank you
Thanks for your as usual encouraging and positive comment Jay Jay! Last year, bearing in mind DA's recommended cut back by about a third on established roses, I thought the Ancient Mariner had perhaps been cut back too much, to about three feet of strong stems (more than 4), but that clearly did it no harm at all. I am wondering if, after being so impressed by this one example in the last few summers, I went overboard on the AM front, planting three just under the decking and another one in the front garden. Perhaps I should have backed Eustacia instead since she flowers more consistently? This year has not been a good year to make decisions on any rose though, so I'll see what happens next season. On the new rose front, I am very hopeful for the three I showed in the video (assuming that the Harkness roses are as labelled!) and am most curious to see Well Being perform - she doesn't seem to be a well-known rose despite apparently having a lot in her favour, so has she been unfairly neglected, or is she really not that impressive? I also have a potted Chandos Beauty arriving this week. Next month JParkers are sending me a small consignment of bare roots including 3 climbers (Scent from Heaven, Starlight Symphony and Westerland) which I am thinking I will pot up and put in the greenhouse over the winter, as I did with last year's DA bare roots to push them along, before planting them in the bed to climb up the south-facing fence - you may remember I posted an Easter Sunday rose on one of those warmly-cosseted greenhouse babies earlier this year, so the greenhouse treatment does work. I imagine you had a proper sunny spell over the last 5 days - over here in the west we had milky "sunshine" and last night torrential rain. I had a struggle with mowing damp grass yesterday evening after 5 dry days. Sunday's overnight forecast is minus 1! I think that's the end of my tomatoes ... but not the roses.
@@nikkonch Eustacia Vye here’s the thing I have 4, 3 of them have been a little disappointing for me as the season went on but one has done very well. That’s 4 roses planted next to each other getting the same sun shade water and treatment. But yes I agree entirely I think next year if we have usual and expected weather and in my case a touch of feed, the normal suspects will be once again singing a fine tune with more actual flowers during the course of the whole season. One rose that has done surprisingly wel for me this year is Roald Dahl. Even in this late stage it’s still working hard. Yes I may give some of my potted roses the potting shed treatment this winter after seeing yours last winter :)
@@Jay_Jay Roald Dahl - I do seem to be seeing quite a few people who are obviously enthusiastic about RD. It's one that doesn't immediately grab my attention, but maybe seeing it in real life would change my mind, and of course watching it over a season is a different experience to seeing a snapshot in time. Maybe you could include a short focus on yours in your next video for your fans which must be coming soon ...?
Garden looking great for October . Thanks for sharing .
Thank you.
My Princess Anne has thrown up a massive stem just like your Abraham Darby. Did you add all the Roses to your garden or were some inherited? I had a blank canvas when I bought my house and it's been a labour of love over the years getting it sorted and digging in lots of organic matter as the builders just threw down a bit of top soil when they finished their job. I daren't add up how much I've spent on plants especially the David Austin Roses but an old work colleague once told me that there are no pockets in shrouds!
That Abraham Darby was actually a Gertrude Jekyll - it's difficult to keep all the names straight (now I can understand my mother going through all my siblings' names before getting the right one when telling us off!). I know some DA roses can turn or be turned into climbers - since these tall canes seem not to bear many flowers when they grow vertically, I wonder if it would not be best to cut them down early on. I think all of the roses, bar two in the front garden, are my purchases. That bottom bed was for our first two years here a veggie bed with the local heavy red clay. I have lost count of all the compost and soil improver that we have put in there. Besides that expense the cost of the roses is tiny! My father would always say (rather confusingly) of spendthrifts "He spends money like a man with no hands." Where the garden is concerned, I am that man.
Lovely tour around your garden nik. Good to see these worts and all walk arounds I think. Some roses doing very well and some not so much this year which I think is real life. I think some of yours are doing better than mine and vise versa so interesting to see. I’m sure you have the best ancient mariner within the world of RUclips :) looks fab. How are you going to prune that come winter? I’ve said this year I’m going to leave an absolute max of 4 stems coming up from one rose but leave those stems a little taller to get some height on my younger roses. Your new purchases I’m excited about. :) and good on you for highlighting some questions. I can only assume another cut and paste gone wrong. Best of luck with them I hope they come through as the ones you wished for. The scent of mum in a million for my nose is intense :) a lovely tour nik thank you
Thanks for your as usual encouraging and positive comment Jay Jay! Last year, bearing in mind DA's recommended cut back by about a third on established roses, I thought the Ancient Mariner had perhaps been cut back too much, to about three feet of strong stems (more than 4), but that clearly did it no harm at all. I am wondering if, after being so impressed by this one example in the last few summers, I went overboard on the AM front, planting three just under the decking and another one in the front garden. Perhaps I should have backed Eustacia instead since she flowers more consistently? This year has not been a good year to make decisions on any rose though, so I'll see what happens next season.
On the new rose front, I am very hopeful for the three I showed in the video (assuming that the Harkness roses are as labelled!) and am most curious to see Well Being perform - she doesn't seem to be a well-known rose despite apparently having a lot in her favour, so has she been unfairly neglected, or is she really not that impressive? I also have a potted Chandos Beauty arriving this week. Next month JParkers are sending me a small consignment of bare roots including 3 climbers (Scent from Heaven, Starlight Symphony and Westerland) which I am thinking I will pot up and put in the greenhouse over the winter, as I did with last year's DA bare roots to push them along, before planting them in the bed to climb up the south-facing fence - you may remember I posted an Easter Sunday rose on one of those warmly-cosseted greenhouse babies earlier this year, so the greenhouse treatment does work.
I imagine you had a proper sunny spell over the last 5 days - over here in the west we had milky "sunshine" and last night torrential rain. I had a struggle with mowing damp grass yesterday evening after 5 dry days. Sunday's overnight forecast is minus 1! I think that's the end of my tomatoes ... but not the roses.
@@nikkonch Eustacia Vye here’s the thing I have 4, 3 of them have been a little disappointing for me as the season went on but one has done very well. That’s 4 roses planted next to each other getting the same sun shade water and treatment. But yes I agree entirely I think next year if we have usual and expected weather and in my case a touch of feed, the normal suspects will be once again singing a fine tune with more actual flowers during the course of the whole season. One rose that has done surprisingly wel for me this year is Roald Dahl. Even in this late stage it’s still working hard. Yes I may give some of my potted roses the potting shed treatment this winter after seeing yours last winter :)
@@Jay_Jay Roald Dahl - I do seem to be seeing quite a few people who are obviously enthusiastic about RD. It's one that doesn't immediately grab my attention, but maybe seeing it in real life would change my mind, and of course watching it over a season is a different experience to seeing a snapshot in time. Maybe you could include a short focus on yours in your next video for your fans which must be coming soon ...?
Oops. Rose at 11.50 is Gertrude Jekyll, not Abraham Darby.