Roses

Lurving the Kolidge of Nollidge

Good morning Simbarb and all my rose loving friends,I could start off by quoting the official recognized way of taking and winterising your rose cuttings word by word but I am not going to,you see I have always followed my own methods based on my past successes and failures(of which there have...

Thats gorgeous.

Good evening Andrew no worries my friend,all you can do at the moment is to remove all the leaves that have black spot on them,including any infected leaves that have fallen,if they are left the spores will remain on the ground over winter and black spot will appear next spring,please either...

Anything really. Both clematis and roses like to be deep planted but you will probably gt away with a shallower planted shrub.

Amazing what a bit of tlc can do - now looking much healthier with lots of new growth ...

That is so pretty....and i like the name too.

thanks lolimac, we've just been informed by Michael Marriot at David Austin's that the rose is Excelsa, named in 1909. Mystery over!

Isn't that the one you wore to the office party?

I've just followed your gardening boards.

Here is my climbing rose Penny Lane this morning

If you can, buttercup, spray the fungicide either early morning or late evening when the insect life is not around as some fungicides also include a insecticide which will wreak havoc on Bees, Hover Flies and all the other beneficial insects. Next year you need to spray the Fungicide in Spring...

ah, that makes more sense than the 2 bowls and a brick method I kept reading about, thanks

Hi, I noticed several little green caterpillars (possible Sawfly larve) on the top leaves of one of my young black Baccara roses and picked them off. The little beasties ate a few leaves, I treated the plant with some bug clear insecticide and noticed this morning some more leaves were gone.Only...

I have planted my rose in the same spot as the old one (although I planted the Teasing Georgia not Gertrude Jekyll, which will go in another spot). I did what was suggested, ie I dug out the soil and moved to another part of the garden, then filled the hole with John Innes No 3 and horse manure...

48cm should be deep enough to plant some patio roses if that's the route you decide to take - David Austin has some lovely ones (I particularly like Sweet Dream) If you're on a tight budget, then have a look at the small roses which are normally sold as houseplants in supermarkets. They are...

Well, you could put another Rose, albeit one a bit more disease resistant, if you dug out the present soil and replace it with some compost and new soil.

Well, he knows his stuff......but I'm betting you could do the same.

Hi Delta, it's a bit difficult to give good advice when there's no pic, any chance of one?? All standards are grown on root stock and all growth is taken off until the required height and then let grow into a ball shape so anything about that height should not be major pruned until you've got...

Yes please, I do like to see how people's gardens develop