My little rose garden

Seven months after sheal kindly suggested it i have finally finished clearing the borders

 

I bet it looks a whole lot different now CRG! It's amazing how much is produced when you start a tidy up, it seems a lot more than when it's attached to various plants.

 

Managed to get most of the stuff on my shopping list. off into my garden this morn and mums this aft


SHOPPING LIST
cream spray paint
bleach for patio
john innes no 3
Traditional potting compost (100% peat compost
Mycorrhizal fungi (fryers roses)
bonemeal
toprose granular feed (fryers roses)
well rotted manure
roseclear
uncle toms rose tonic

 

I'm so envious. Can't grow roses here. For sentimental reasons,I tried......very, very hard.....to grow a David AUstin rose called Happy Child. Lovely yellow and wonderful scent but grew it for the name. Clearly, chimneyrosegarden, you like roses. Clever aren't I to work that out?

 

Verdun, there is no reason why you can't grow them in large pots, but they will have to be fed regularly during the growing/flowering season.

 

finished the edging today and swept up the path. working on wildlife area to side of shed quickly this morn. found an old hanging basket triple hook so put some bird feeders and a wind chime up.

Little chimney very excited about seeing birds in her garden. done my best to make it cat proof. repaired the little bug hotel on the arch and put some metal edging and bark down to make it look a bit neater

 

The majority of my roses are in planters. They do take a bit more looking after (as do the rest of my containerised plants), but I enjoy giving them the attention so it's not a chore and you get very well rewarded

 

Hanging fire on my garden till the lovely dai the plant looks at it tomorrow. My david austen roses arrived yesterday. so thats the last 6 roses safely recieved

 

nothing going on in my garden over weekend - trying to 'break the back' of mums first.

 

garden wall painting started thanks for the suggestion folly mon . picked a nice cream colour. beautiful weather here no frost this morning and a mild 6 degrees.

 

Painting the wall will make such a big difference CRG, all those lovely rose colours will stand out better!

 

Nothing done today little chimney decided to get up at 2.30 am

 

a bad day in the chimneyrosegarden garden today. Mr chimneyrosegarden decided to help paint the walls and not a rose box bush or camelia has escaped paint spatters!
I have tried to get the paint off the leaves but i cant :(
I did ask him not to get any paint on the plants. Will it hurt them? I am so upset I was busy helping out with scout post and trusted him to at least try and be careful :(

 

I think it depends on how bad it is CRG. Have you tried hosing them off? Other than that I think you'll have to wait until it grows out. You know what they say about wanting a job done properly?!

 

BIg day for me today. Off back to docs today for more investigations and blood tests a to why my blood tests keep coming back wrong. Will have to get out into the garden today to take my mind off it.