My little rose garden

Rhs link on rose care http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=191

rospa note on bark for play areas http://www.rospa.com/leisuresafety/...safety/loose-impact-attenuating-surfaces.aspx

 

Your 'Wanted' list contains my complete 'have' list of DA roses

Jude the Obscure
Lady Emma Hamilton
Gertrude Jekyll
Scepter'd Isle
Lady of Shalott
Princess Alexandra of Kent

and off your 'ordered' list - Teasing Georgia (as per my avatar).

The first four are very fragrant, the bottom three aren't, but all are very beautiful and free flowering

 

When i first got chickens i thought it would be a good idea to cover the floor of the run in bark....made it look lovely and smart.....but then found out that allsorts of spores and fungi were growing in it that can be harmfull ....won't use it now

 

Thanks Merleworld i used the replies from the thread what would be your top ten roses to help make my selection
My little girls first morn at nursery today so i am off to the garden then a fish and chip dinner )
if anyone could rotate the pic for me i would really appreciate it

 

i am a bit fed up today I placed an order for john innes 3 weeks ago and they have only deliverd half of it! i have phoned several times. but they keep saying the courrier lost it!

so waiting on 12 roses
2 bags of strulch

and from greenfingers
1 LS2639D Ladies Water Resistant Gloves - Tulip - 2.99
1 LS9152D Yeominis - Starting Gardening Set | Kids Tool - 7.49
1 LS9566D John Innes No 3 Compost - 20 Litre - 6.99
1 LS9565D John Innes No 2 Compost - 20 Litres - 6.99

 

Looks like i will get a refund from greenfingers. Lets see if i get money back. Trimmed somw box lightly just to tidy and looks like its blight. Will have to read up on it. Cut the blimming eucalyptus again and weeded the triangle border.

 

It's a bit late really for trimming Buxus CR but no worries see how they go,they can look a little 'ropey' at this time of the year...yellowing leaves etc...but read up on the blight... I hope it isn't blight because i love your little hedges...fingers crossed

 

i only gave them a tiny trim just the odd straggly bit. but i can see black leaves inside :/ i will take a photo when i can.

 

this is blight - its not that. will have a look into how to give them some tlc over winter. because i love them too

 

You've not had a good day have you CRG. Let's hope for a better one tomorrow. Could it be powdery mildew on the box? It looks silvery in the picture.

 

thats gardening as a novice sheal - loads of mistakes on the way dont know what i would have done without you guys. at least mr chimney cleaned the kitchen today so its not all bad

 

We all had to start somewhere CRG and as gardeners we never stop learning, whether the problem is good or bad. Only last week I made the simple mistake of overwatering a rooted cutting. Although I've tried to rescue it - it's looking sick. I should know better!

 

just trying to get my head around Mycorrhizal fungi

 

That would be the fellow that forms a symbiotic relationship with a plant. In return for some surplus starches from the plants roots, the fungi supplies the roots with minerals its retrieved by consuming part rotted organic matter in the soil.

 

ooo thanks clueless