Showing posts with label roses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roses. Show all posts
Saturday 21 July 2018
Friday 29 July 2016
Rose Hugel Pot. Hugelkultur.
- Low Cost Vegetable Garden: Rose Hugel Pot Update
- Low Cost Vegetable Garden: Hugelkultur
One thing to remember is that hugelkultur's do best in their 3-4th year after wood has broken down, become sponge like and built a network of microbes, fungi and air pockets.
If you try it, here are a few tips from locals:
Be prepared to lose some produce to deer, foxes, groundhogs, or whatever critters populate your neighborhood.
The hugelkultur landscape's natural look is inviting to them.
Don't be alarmed if your garden seems to sink.
As the wood breaks down, air pockets form, and the mound will settle.
This doesn't harm anything, but if you're hoping the garden maintains a certain height for aesthetic reasons, you may want to initially build the garden a few inches above that height.
Remember you're working with the environment.
All materials should be natural, and you shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to create a garden like this.
In addition to the logs Earnest and Hunsiker got from their own felled trees, they used their compost and free mulch from Abington Township.
- Hugelkultur: A pile of patience - and fun - philly-archives
- Low Cost Vegetable Garden: Hugelkultur
One thing to remember is that hugelkultur's do best in their 3-4th year after wood has broken down, become sponge like and built a network of microbes, fungi and air pockets.
If you try it, here are a few tips from locals:
Be prepared to lose some produce to deer, foxes, groundhogs, or whatever critters populate your neighborhood.
The hugelkultur landscape's natural look is inviting to them.
Don't be alarmed if your garden seems to sink.
As the wood breaks down, air pockets form, and the mound will settle.
This doesn't harm anything, but if you're hoping the garden maintains a certain height for aesthetic reasons, you may want to initially build the garden a few inches above that height.
Remember you're working with the environment.
All materials should be natural, and you shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to create a garden like this.
In addition to the logs Earnest and Hunsiker got from their own felled trees, they used their compost and free mulch from Abington Township.
- Hugelkultur: A pile of patience - and fun - philly-archives
Saturday 23 May 2015
Favourite roses for scent, for cutting.
Top 10 roses for scent | How to, Ornamental, Summer, Top tips | Amateur Gardening Amateur Gardening:
- ‘Louise Odier’
- ‘Madame Isaac Pereire’
- ‘De Resht’
- ‘Professeur Emile Perrot’ (syn. ‘Kazanlik’)
- ‘Jude the Obscure’
- ‘Quatre Saisons’
- ‘Great Maiden’s Blush’
- ‘Sir Frederick Ashton’
- ‘Gertrude Jekyll’
- ‘Madame Alfred Carrière’
Gardening: Top 10 roses for cutting - Sarah Raven:
- Princess Alexandra
- White Gold
- William Shakespeare 2000
- Golden Celebration
- Graham Thomas
- Susan
- Winchester Cathedral
- Gertrude Jekyll
- Buttercup
- ‘Louise Odier'
Some of the favourite roses mentioned on Gardener's World:
- Presenter's Monty Don favourite Roses - Chapeau de Napoleon
- Rachel de Thame - Roses in her garden included Graham Thomas, Evelyn, Golden Celebration and Penny Lane.
- Carol Kline - New Dawn
- Alan Titchmarsh - Jacques Cartier
- Sarah Raven - Charles de Mills
- Nick Biddle (Regents Park Head Gardener) - Stanwell Perpetual Sweet Dreams is the most successful British rose ever with sales of 4 1/2 million since 1998.
Gardener's World Favourite Rose Survey:
1. Gertrude Jekyll
2. Peace
3. Albertine (the Queen Mother's favourite rose)
4. Iceberg
5. Blue Moon
- Monty Don: Pergolas, arches, trees, even the side of the house will be enriched if you let roses ramble | Mail Online:
As a general rule, use climbers on walls, fences, pillars and pergolas and ramblers will grow into hedges, trees over large arches and may also be used on pillars and pergolas.
- Coming up roses: Bring that boring pergola to life by training masses of climbing roses over it - then letting them run riot | Mail Online:
- How to grow: best compact climbing roses - Telegraph:
- Organic gardening: Growing roses - Telegraph: "Top 10 disease-resistant roses"
- Top 10 climbers - By Rachel de Thame.:
1. Rosa 'Penny Lane'
I COULD dedicate the whole article to climbing roses, but I've chosen this one simply because it's such a good doer. It was awarded Rose of the Year in 1998. I grow it in my garden on a lowish, north-east-facing wall. It produces nicely shaped flowers, beautiful in bud and almost blowsy when fully open. The colour is particularly subtle, buff with a hint of pink when young, becoming Champagne with age. It has good disease resistance, is compact enough for the smallest garden and it repeats well. Since it went in, I have always been able to pick a posy for the house at Christmas.
- Which scented roses to plant in the garden - Saga:
'via Blog this'
- ‘Louise Odier’
- ‘Madame Isaac Pereire’
- ‘De Resht’
- ‘Professeur Emile Perrot’ (syn. ‘Kazanlik’)
- ‘Jude the Obscure’
- ‘Quatre Saisons’
- ‘Great Maiden’s Blush’
- ‘Sir Frederick Ashton’
- ‘Gertrude Jekyll’
- ‘Madame Alfred Carrière’
Gardening: Top 10 roses for cutting - Sarah Raven:
- Princess Alexandra
- White Gold
- William Shakespeare 2000
- Golden Celebration
- Graham Thomas
- Susan
- Winchester Cathedral
- Gertrude Jekyll
- Buttercup
- ‘Louise Odier'
Some of the favourite roses mentioned on Gardener's World:
- Presenter's Monty Don favourite Roses - Chapeau de Napoleon
- Rachel de Thame - Roses in her garden included Graham Thomas, Evelyn, Golden Celebration and Penny Lane.
- Carol Kline - New Dawn
- Alan Titchmarsh - Jacques Cartier
- Sarah Raven - Charles de Mills
- Nick Biddle (Regents Park Head Gardener) - Stanwell Perpetual Sweet Dreams is the most successful British rose ever with sales of 4 1/2 million since 1998.
Gardener's World Favourite Rose Survey:
1. Gertrude Jekyll
2. Peace
3. Albertine (the Queen Mother's favourite rose)
4. Iceberg
5. Blue Moon
- Monty Don: Pergolas, arches, trees, even the side of the house will be enriched if you let roses ramble | Mail Online:
As a general rule, use climbers on walls, fences, pillars and pergolas and ramblers will grow into hedges, trees over large arches and may also be used on pillars and pergolas.
- Coming up roses: Bring that boring pergola to life by training masses of climbing roses over it - then letting them run riot | Mail Online:
- How to grow: best compact climbing roses - Telegraph:
- Organic gardening: Growing roses - Telegraph: "Top 10 disease-resistant roses"
- Top 10 climbers - By Rachel de Thame.:
1. Rosa 'Penny Lane'
I COULD dedicate the whole article to climbing roses, but I've chosen this one simply because it's such a good doer. It was awarded Rose of the Year in 1998. I grow it in my garden on a lowish, north-east-facing wall. It produces nicely shaped flowers, beautiful in bud and almost blowsy when fully open. The colour is particularly subtle, buff with a hint of pink when young, becoming Champagne with age. It has good disease resistance, is compact enough for the smallest garden and it repeats well. Since it went in, I have always been able to pick a posy for the house at Christmas.
- Which scented roses to plant in the garden - Saga:
'via Blog this'
Making a Willow Wigwam.
- How to use willow in the garden - Telegraph:
Roses trained by weaving through pliable hazel domes.
Arne Maynard’s rose-covered domes at Chelsea.
- The English Gardener: Making a Willow Wigwam is Easier Than it Looks (Promise) Gardenista:
'via Blog this'
Roses trained by weaving through pliable hazel domes.
Arne Maynard’s rose-covered domes at Chelsea.
- The English Gardener: Making a Willow Wigwam is Easier Than it Looks (Promise) Gardenista:
'via Blog this'
Rose "Pink Peace".
Medium pink Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: MEIbil
Exhibition name: Pink Peace
Bred by Francis Meilland (France, 1958).
Introduced in France by URS (Universal Rose Selection)-Meilland as 'Pink Peace'.
Hybrid Tea.
Pink. Strong fragrance. 58 petals. Large bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.
Height of 3' to 5' (90 to 150 cm). Width of 28" to 4' (70 to 120 cm).
Registration name: MEIbil
Exhibition name: Pink Peace
Bred by Francis Meilland (France, 1958).
Introduced in France by URS (Universal Rose Selection)-Meilland as 'Pink Peace'.
Hybrid Tea.
Pink. Strong fragrance. 58 petals. Large bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.
Height of 3' to 5' (90 to 150 cm). Width of 28" to 4' (70 to 120 cm).
Stanwell Perpetual rose.
How to grow: Stanwell Perpetual rose - Telegraph:
"Growing tips
'Stanwell Perpetual' adapts to any soil, even thriving on chalk. It tolerates some shade and is so hardy that it grows well in Scandinavia. It can be grown as a specimen, a hedge, in a container or up a pillar.
Thorny 'Stanwell Perpetual' is best grown away from paths and steps. Dig a large enough hole to allow you to spread the roots out, shortening any really long ones, and mix in a handful of bone meal. Place the rose in the hole and cover with soil making sure the union - the bumpy part at the bottom of the stem - is an inch below the surface. Press down firmly, water if necessary, then cut the rose down hard, reducing each stem to 3in to 5in long at an outward-facing bud. This will prevent wind rock and make the plant stronger and less leggy.
If you grow it as single specimen try to preserve the arching shape. Remove any dying, diseased and damaged wood and shorten the thorny stems by up to a third during winter. You can cut it back hard in spring if you want a shorter rose, as it flowers on the new wood.
When planting a hedge, leave a 3ft gap between each rose and trim to the desired size in winter.
Feed sparingly; sprinkling an organic fertiliser round the roots at the beginning of the growing season will be plenty.
If you do get an attack of black spot gather the fallen leaves and destroy them - don't add them to the compost heap. This robust rose should shrug off the disease the following year. If it does return, gather the leaves again and water the plant and surrounding ground thoroughly with a strong tar-wash solution in winter.
Good companions
Its shell-pink flowers mix well with other old-fashioned varieties or shrub roses. These can be interspersed with violas or campanulas and edged with the silvery leaves of Stachys byzantina. 'Stanwell Perpetual' also suits a woodland planting."
'via Blog this'
"Growing tips
'Stanwell Perpetual' adapts to any soil, even thriving on chalk. It tolerates some shade and is so hardy that it grows well in Scandinavia. It can be grown as a specimen, a hedge, in a container or up a pillar.
Thorny 'Stanwell Perpetual' is best grown away from paths and steps. Dig a large enough hole to allow you to spread the roots out, shortening any really long ones, and mix in a handful of bone meal. Place the rose in the hole and cover with soil making sure the union - the bumpy part at the bottom of the stem - is an inch below the surface. Press down firmly, water if necessary, then cut the rose down hard, reducing each stem to 3in to 5in long at an outward-facing bud. This will prevent wind rock and make the plant stronger and less leggy.
If you grow it as single specimen try to preserve the arching shape. Remove any dying, diseased and damaged wood and shorten the thorny stems by up to a third during winter. You can cut it back hard in spring if you want a shorter rose, as it flowers on the new wood.
When planting a hedge, leave a 3ft gap between each rose and trim to the desired size in winter.
Feed sparingly; sprinkling an organic fertiliser round the roots at the beginning of the growing season will be plenty.
If you do get an attack of black spot gather the fallen leaves and destroy them - don't add them to the compost heap. This robust rose should shrug off the disease the following year. If it does return, gather the leaves again and water the plant and surrounding ground thoroughly with a strong tar-wash solution in winter.
Good companions
Its shell-pink flowers mix well with other old-fashioned varieties or shrub roses. These can be interspersed with violas or campanulas and edged with the silvery leaves of Stachys byzantina. 'Stanwell Perpetual' also suits a woodland planting."
'via Blog this'
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