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Post by spider on Mar 17, 2015 13:41:50 GMT
 if ye remember this rose from last year we cut that stem and just stuck it in the ground and now we have new leaves sprouting from it so we have a second one yipee |
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Post by lotsofcats on Mar 17, 2015 14:58:59 GMT
You lucky thing - I didn't think roses could be rooted that easily.
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Post by spider on Mar 17, 2015 16:48:22 GMT
so far i done it twice and the two of them are growing
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2015 20:09:53 GMT
That's brilliant! I've never grown roses but I remember my dad having a few in the front garden 
I've had to pot up my cucumbers as they were getting too big for the propagator and the roots were starting to break through the bottom. They're now in 'pots' made from four individual 2 litre pepsi bottles, holes for drainage in the bottom, so they have a lot more depth of compost to grow in and can happily grow on (I hope!) for another week or two either on our living room windowsill or the greenhouse. *note to self ~ plant them in deeper pots next year!!!*   |
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Post by smilesbetter on Mar 17, 2015 20:17:51 GMT
My dad planted a rose bush in the garden of the house I grew up in, would love to see what it looks like now (provided it's still there). We have a mental rose plant/monster outside the kitchen in my family home, it's sort of strapped to the house now and gone quite wild haha.
Haha @gillykat glad the cucumbers are doing well!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2015 7:57:12 GMT
I had a bit of a panic last night just before I went to bed as two of them had flopped over but they were upright once more this morning and are now all on the kitchen window away from a certain Very Naughty Kitten!
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Post by tonib on Mar 20, 2015 23:00:58 GMT
Mark got this in his Twitter feed:-  with the comment |
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Post by smilesbetter on Mar 21, 2015 21:22:40 GMT
Hahaha!
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Post by tonib on Jun 27, 2015 11:52:05 GMT
Talk about a mass of blooms on one rose bush (Crocus Rose).  Crocus Rose 20150626 P1030683 by osiriscat, on Flickr Perhaps this is why I like roses:- How they change:- ShapeFrom this  Falstaff 20150626 P1030691 by osiriscat, on Flickr to this  Falstaff 20150626 P1030692 by osiriscat, on Flickr even next to each other  Crocus Rose 20150626 P1030693 by osiriscat, on Flickr or colour & shapefrom this  Jude the Obscure 20150627 P1030710 by osiriscat, on Flickr through  Jude the Obscure 20150627 P1030707 by osiriscat, on Flickr & this  Jude the Obscure 20150626 P1030695 by osiriscat, on Flickr finally to this  Jude the Obscure 20150627 P1030708 by osiriscat, on Flickr They all have something special from the almost insignificant flowers but lovely coloured leaves & stems with the flowers turn into lovely red hips for the birds in autumn.  Alexandra Rose 20150626 P1030698 by osiriscat, on Flickr to the frothy & purely ornamental  Port Sunlight 20150626 P1030697 by osiriscat, on Flickr Maybe that's why I like the dark red peonies as they are like the roses as the flowers change shape through their life & their colour is superb  Peony 20150627 P1030711 by osiriscat, on Flickr |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2015 13:32:18 GMT
Wow! They are GORGEOUS!!!  Are the roses David Austin ones?
I've never really grown roses myself. My dad had a lovely Peace rose and two Iceberg in the front garden (which always got black spot  ) but I've yet to try them myself....perhaps next year I'll put some on the allotment |
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Post by bectil on Jun 27, 2015 18:12:49 GMT
Beautiful photos! Seems to be the year for roses! Two customers (one has a climbing rose, the other has two shrub roses) have scented roses and they smelt amazing! I am yet to go to David Austin roses (I've only been to the shop, never been around the gardens) - My aunty and grandma went a few weeks ago and said some were in flower, though I think if they went just that bit later everything would be open! Some plants I would like for next year: Lupins, scented rose shrub and Salvias... love the smell of Salvias! |
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Post by tonib on Jun 28, 2015 13:02:15 GMT
Wow! They are GORGEOUS!!! Are the roses David Austin ones?
I've never really grown roses myself. My dad had a lovely Peace rose and two Iceberg in the front garden (which always got black spot ) but I've yet to try them myself....perhaps next year I'll put some on the allotment @gillykat, All our roses (except one) are from David Austin & most are actual David Austin bred roses. All the ones in the detailed photos are bred by him. The Falstaff & Jude the Obscure are over 15 years old. I used to have Falstaff in a big pot on the balcony of my old house in Brighton, when I moved up here (into a rented flat) in Feb 2000 my father kept it going until I had a garden again (October 2000) & it survived the 250 mile journey & stayed in that pot producing lovely flowers until we had the garden landscaped in 2008 when most of the others where choosen by a visit to David Austin's whilst they had the garden dug up, sadly the other rose I brought up here (Crimson Glory) didn't do well after the journey so we eventually bought the climbing variety (at a garden centre) but when I got it home it was Ena Harkness (they'd been next to each other but just as good to look at ) & that is now trying to reach the top of our silver birch (badly placed as no low flowers as the sun is blocked by the tree) giving tantalising glimpses of dark red amongst the leaves. However Jude the Obscure was ought in 2000/2001 as I was given a David Austin voucher as a house warming present & that was also put in a pot & replanted with Falstaff. The Alexandra rose was bought with Jude & planted in a back corner of the garden now hidden by the summer house so was moved in 2008. We've also got another 6 roses (all from David Austin) in the front garden of which Maigold, although not bred by him, is a prolific, gorgeous yellow climber on our almost north-facing house wall which is one of the first to flower. I was looking & photos & found I'd taken one last year on the same date as the one this year (the rampant buddleias & weeds etc. are outside our garden on the council owned footpath verge!)  Maigold 20140603 P1020767 by osiriscat, on Flickr  Maigold 20150603 P1030595 by osiriscat, on Flickr My father had hybrid tea roses in more formal rose beds (I prefer to plant in amongst the flower beds or is that flowers amongst the rose beds!  ) & Peace was a favourite, its a lovely mix of colours & well scented. All my roses are scented, that is a must for me. Beautiful photos! Seems to be the year for roses! Two customers (one has a climbing rose, the other has two shrub roses) have scented roses and they smelt amazing! I am yet to go to David Austin roses (I've only been to the shop, never been around the gardens) - My aunty and grandma went a few weeks ago and said some were in flower, though I think if they went just that bit later everything would be open! Some plants I would like for next year: Lupins, scented rose shrub and Salvias... love the smell of Salvias! , you're right about the roses as those photos of Maigold prove. If you can get round the David Austin gardens when most are in flower then its a lovely sight & you can take photos to think about later & also see how the different varieties perform & its free (at least it was the last time I went.) If anyone likes roses then the Royal National Rose Society have a garden, which opens to the public, near St. Albans www.rnrs.org.uk/visit-us/opening-times-and-prices/ |
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Post by lotsofcats on Jul 15, 2015 13:52:46 GMT
I am so proud of my petunias this year - I have them in 3 stone troughs in the front garden.
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Post by scallywag on Jul 15, 2015 14:47:54 GMT
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Post by scallywag on Jul 15, 2015 14:54:11 GMT
Just gonna shift these post onto here  ok im having trouble with this weed can anybody tell me what it is its all over my rose garden and do what i like its still there how do i get rid of it please  Do these look like same plant ? if so .... www.downgardenservices.org.uk/ground-elder.htm
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if ye remember this rose from last year we cut that stem and just stuck it in the ground and now we have new leaves sprouting from it so we have a second one yipee
) but I've yet to try them myself....perhaps next year I'll put some on the allotment 
) & Peace was a favourite, its a lovely mix of colours & well scented. All my roses are scented, that is a must for me.
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