Roses

The roses I have bought from Cant's have always been healthy and well packaged. The only drawback, as with most nurseries, is the extra cost of delivering here to Scotland, especially the Highlands. If you buy them bare root later in the year they will be cheaper.As long as the wind isn't...

Definitely get some sturdy but unobtrusive wire in place over the door, fixed to rawl-plugged screws or hooks. When you tie in the rose stems, arching them over to the horizontal, they'll flower all along the stems. The plant looks a bit young to be needing much pruning but it's never too soon...

Welcome Curlylocks. Lucky! (the exclamation mark is part of it's name) is a floribunda rose shrub which should have dense foliage and a mass of perfumed, lilac pink blooms throughout the flowering season. I had one amongst the roses in my last garden....It's the only rose I've had that...

Bit of a panic there - the ends of a couple of the rose stems were turning grey - I cut them off.Pleased to say that it's now starting to sprout - you never know might get some blooms this year .

Aaaaand the shop cancelled my "Warm Welcome"... Now there is only a single online shop left in Germany that carries them. Put my order in just now. Import from UK is also not an option because of Brexit related waiting times at customs. Dont want my rose to sit in some Storage pile for weeks...

Decided to go for a 'Golden Gate' instead, but this thread was really helpful to make a decisionI dont expect them to be that different, so the availability from where i live made the biggest difference

Thanks, Linclas for your contribution and photograph! OK the sprouting buds are perhaps not on brown shoot but are on OLD shoots! Sure similar has happened to me (and others) in the past, so thanks! If it has happened, I've never noticed it, so it'll be interesting if it does sprout on a...

and a another to shop around with to get the cheapest price and 5 year guarantee...I have found :bareroot 1 x plant £8.99 4ltr pot x1 £27.99

I have always thought it was simply due to overzealous breeders trying to produce the most impressively large blooms. The only rose I've grown where this was really a problem was 'Special Anniversary' (Whastiluc), but the beautiful large pink flowers and rich fragrance made the nodding seem like...

Good afternoon @Jasmine star no worries my friend you are most welcome I shall be speaking to Joe and will convey your thanks to him

Thank you very much Nigel. I hope you are right as I love this rose & it seems to be doing alright, excluding this issue. Good idea, I will email them and ask for advice.

Time to plant those citrus trees

@groundbeetle I agree some roses are prone to diseases. I've found it tends to be the older generation of roses as later ones are grown to be more resistant. I had an assortment of roses in my last garden and the only one that seemed to suffer from black spot (late in the flowering season) was...

For pruning it all depends on where you live. We prune in March or April depending on the weather. Here's a video I have made a thread about this guy, it's called Fraser valley rose farm

Good afternoon @Finston Pickle please keep us updated with your observations and findings my friend It would be really appreciated,thank you

As with blue colour dyed orchids they will revert to their natural colour (white) unless repeated again.

You're welcome newbiemud. Sorry, I know absolutely nothing about Wisteria and not as much as I'd like about climbing and rambling roses, I've always grown shrub [email protected] has spent most of his life working with roses and is GC's resident rosarian so you can trust his judgement.

Following your reply's. I do think that I have sucker on this rose. I have cut it off as low as I can.

Let them grow past the wires ( 2ft at least ) then bring them down to be tied in, I assume you are tying them to horizontal wires . Doing it this way will speed up the frame work of a climbing rose , tying them down continuously will slow the plant down. Morning is the best time to be tying /...