Roses

Good morning Charliebot you are most welcome my friend

Thank you everyone for your valued contributions. To update both roses are doing fine. The G de F particularly looks like it had always been there and I expect a great show next year. Iceberg is still settling but no issues to report. Hopefully they'll be a few stems long enough to cut in the...

Good evening Mondo why change the habit of a lifetimeYou are quite right Mondo I just offered the translation Joie de Vivre; I never check my friends Rose names unless I am asked,in any case my friend its definitely a Rose

A complete guess...Lemon Spice......I can't remember what colour the stamens are on mine...

Hi Sheal that's what the practice manager said to yours truly,It will be interesting to see the results

Good afternoon John you are most welcome my friend

Thanx guys. One is in and the bare root one is orderedStarted diggin the hole and the soil was quite dry underneath so not too wet at all :-)Hopefully if my body recovers in an hour or so i might get another one planted todayIf not i will do a rose a day weather dependingGlad these can...

Hi Loli about 40 Roses approximately,but they all want renewing sadly they have been there since 1988(26 years) but the practice manager won't spend the money

Thank you and will do - I'm entering uncharted territory here with my first rose :D That area of the garden can be quite windy but the rose is protected a bit by a water butt to the left of it and the large metal drain pipe that you can see. I think it should be OK re: water. The compost wasn't...

I have grown some roses from seed taken from the rose hip. They are still very small at one year old and currently reside in my polytunnel. My only advice to you would be don't let them get too wet. I lost a few to dampness. I am sure your roses will be beautiful whichever colour they decide to...

Many thanks, I was on the verge of cutting them out !!! it pays to ask !

Your plants look healthy and I can't see any disease on the leaves. Some varieties don't hold their petals as well as others but you should at least get a couple of weeks from each individual bloom. Roses are hungry and thirsty shrubs and should be fed during the growing/flowering season a...

@maggiev, any idea when this happened?I got a bit of a shock when I tried to use the link I have for Fryers - I thought they had gone bust!

Thanks

Yeah,...just don't mention cats!!!

Good morning Loli and thank you my friend,I am always Googling Roses ancestors,especially in the winter nights

Sadly I think you may have wasted your money Nash. Rose seeds are very difficult to germinate. They are best started with stratification, that's up to three months in a fridge before sowing. Some do germinate if sown straight into soil but the success rate is not good. They will take a minimum...

Good afternoon ASunnyAspect I do fully understand where you are coming from my friend and thank you for your kind and friendly post If there is someway that you could just move it a little way from the fence,say 2 or 3 feet would help your Rose.All you can do with the blackspot is to remove...

Hi there, and welcome. I got a bit confused- you are planning to have climbers in addition to and in front of the hedge, right? I agree with Noisette, you will have to think carefully about how you will cut the hedge. Mine needs doing at least twice a season and if not done it looks horribly...

Good morning Lizzie "A Rose by any other name"He who would have beautiful Roses in his garden must have beautiful Roses in his heart."It's easy to forget that down deep, roses are simply prickly shrubs—brambles—cousins to the sprawling, ineradicable blackberry. A rose just wants to be a...