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- Опубликовано: 24 май 2024
- My garden on the Welsh/English border at the end of May. Lots of recent bare root roses in pots, plus well established roses in the ground and in pots. I had intended to plant many of the bare roots, but that will have to wait now to avoid transplant shock risk.
Beautiful looking roses, They are the bees knees.
god bless you more
Lovely to see how your roses are progressing Nik. They look a lot better than mine. The heavy winds and rain last week really battered the ones that were in bloom and we've just had another heavy downpour with thunder and lightening mixed in just to let us know what a rotten year weatherwise this is. It can only get better! I keep saying that I don't have room for any more roses but your Desdemona is winking at me and telling me that I need one and last year I did promise myself that I'd buy a Sweet Honey. Like you, I'd like more red roses. Jay Jay's Amadeus is my favourite in his garden. I expect you've been like me trying to get outside in the garden. I had to put on my gardening jacket yesterday as it was really cold. Let's hope we get some good weather soon. Your garden is looking great.
Hi Wendy - we've had heavy rain here too, with a hailstorm to liven things up. I've just been putting supports on a few newly bent stems and deadheading between showers. Luckily I mowed the lawn and did some weeding yesterday, so things are being kept under control. I really love Desdemona, so I think that you had better follow up on that wink. Sweet Honey is such a workhorse, churning out masses of flowers until very late in the year, but as you have no doubt gathered it needs a lot of space - I've just put some canes in to support low spreading stems (which could have been cut back I suppose). But I would happily buy another, to plant at the back of the bed next time! Jay Jay's Amadeus is lovely, but I don't want a climber - well, I say that now, but you know how it is ... I like my red Dublin Bays in the front garden, and I have seen positive things about Mr Lincoln in the US. But maybe Amadeus is the best bet ....?
Yeah nik. Very nice. Your garden looks ahead of mine certainly. Some of the new roses you have I hope you like them but time will tell. It made me smile when you spoke of mum in a million. I know exactly what you mean. Yes I was shouting sweet honey at the screen when you were there, it looks to be doing very well. We’ve been blessed here the past few days with amazing sun, heat and blue skys and in just that time it’s surprising how fast things move. But alas rain this evening :(
Thanks for sharing nik. Lovely
Thanks for shouting, but can you make it a bit louder next time? I'm already starting to compile a list of the roses I may pass on or otherwise dispose of eventually. Thankfully JParkers make such a course of action acceptable with their low prices. It's interesting how the same amount of money can buy a remarkable rose like ... what's it called again? Oh yes ... Sweet Honey, or something you would happily throw away. Or you can even spend a lot more on something you regret buying. DA roses are expensive, but you do tend to get something worthwhile for your money. But I am looking forward to seeing how all these new roses perform - there must be a fair percentage of keepers, surely.
Hi Nik, thank you so much for the walk around your roses and garden aren't they all looking wonderful ! Thanks for the close ups of Desdemona, she is very pretty, mine is only a baby so she has a long way to go :) Munstead Wood so beautiful but I felt it bite you there ! Your Silas Marner is making me think I may not have given him enough room. Philadelphus how lovely, the scent will be wonderful and just where you pass by it all the time, when it's in flower must be so beautiful.. I planted a Virginal in '22 and this year it has buds on so I am very excited. Margaret Merril looking amazing I'm afraid mine isn't looking good at all, I perhaps should move it, I know I need to be more patient with it maybe I'll see what she does next year, she does have a great perfume. Look at your Sweet Honey it's so full of bud you couldn't count them ! I just wanted to stick my nose in that close up of Mum In A Million haha we need smellyvision 👃Eustacia Vye looking beautiful. The Ancient Mariner wow he is tall already, quite a few on DA site seem capable of much more than they state. Your Hibiscus will be stunning, everything in your garden is that bit further on than mine, I planted two hibiscus (absolute bargains from the garden centre sick bay) I think they were 50p or something ridiculous. The one I planted at the front didn't fair too well when we had that -11c in Dec '22 and it died but the one I planted at the back was more sheltered and it survived so I'm looking forward to seeing if it flowers this year, lovely view across the fields, thank you for the lovely tour Nik, its all looking very beautiful, take care.
Thank you Linda, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I think Desdemona is particularly striking when it has the sun high behind it in the evening and the luminous white contrasts with the dark foliage - I was also struck by the white of the tall campanulas next to the one on the decking, really beautiful. Yes, Silas has got very floppy and straggly this year, but my Iceberg and Gabriel Oak went through a similar phase and are now more compact (and my Lady of Shalott cutting on the decking is flopping around too) - but as we saw in the Overdevest video Silas can get very big. Yes, the smell of a philadelphus is wonderfully strong and sweet - I wish I got the same smell a few feet from a rose bush, instead of having to stick my nose in and risk getting stung by a hidden bee. There are two Sweet Honeys, a fantastic rose which seems to flower nearly non-stop, but the middle of a bed is not the best place to have a 6-ft tall very thorny rose when you want to weed the back of the bed - but I see SH is still advertised as a 3-ft rose !!! I noticed Eustacia was very fragrant this week - maybe I'm recovering from my post-Covid nose-blindness. Ancient Mariner usually looks very impressive when the whole bush is in bloom at the same time - the one by the greenhouse is 6-7 years old now, but the ones below the decking are only 2-3 years old and almost as tall. I actually potted up 4 tiny hibiscus self-seeded plants last autumn - they take years to develop fully, but it's a free plant. We have just had lengthy very heavy rainfall and then a hailstorm - I've just been out and there are a few young stems bent or flattened, so I'll be sticking some supports in later on.
😂… I was shouting through my phone. NIK that’s sweet honey!!!!! Lots of new additions this year. I almost believe you when you said you didn’t have the space.
I thought I heard someone shouting in the distance. The pots will need to be spaced further apart as they grow - I've already accidentally lost a good Alpine Sunset bud by turning the adjoining pot without due care and attention. And my wife wants me to plant some summer bedding somewhere. If only I could buy that field.
@@nikkonch 😂 yes that field behind the garden would be a game changer which also means you’d be coming out of retirement and start working full time, not an option I’m afraid Nik.
@@kenvoong5977 You are so sensible, Ken - and such a party-pooper ! Leave me my fantasy, however unrealistic it may be. As W.B.Yeats wrote "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."