Abraham D'arby

passion_flower

Hello there,
We are moving house soon and I am wanting to take a few of my David Austin roses with me. At the very least my favourite Abraham D'arby
I guess what I need help with is would it be ok to dig it out and pot it for now? and then what do I do with it when I'm in the new place re plant it straight away or would I be better to over winter it somehow?
Thank you

lostinrates

passion_flower wrote: »

Hello there,
We are moving house soon and I am wanting to take a few of my David Austin roses with me. At the very least my favourite Abraham D'arby
I guess what I need help with is would it be ok to dig it out and pot it for now? and then what do I do with it when I'm in the new place re plant it straight away or would I be better to over winter it somehow?
Thank you

Remember you have to tell your buyers


Yes, pot him up and plant him straight away I would if you are moving imminently, its not a bad time to move things. You might want to try the root grow funghi. I think they have made some small different to ours. Its much easier to care for them in the ground if you can, and if its a horrid winter, they'll be warmer in the ground than in a pot.


We've moved lots of Austin and other roses, roses are prettytoug things, and you're approaching this at a really good time of year.

passion_flower

That's great to hear thank you so much for your reply Yes my buyer has been informed that I will be taking a few of my plants with me when he viewed the house.
Should I prune it? I feel so bad disturbing it, currently he is showering me with masses of exquisite blooms from the second flush. Love this rose

Floss

Why not contact David Austin's and ask their advice?

lostinrates

passion_flower wrote: »

That's great to hear thank you so much for your reply Yes my buyer has been informed that I will be taking a few of my plants with me when he viewed the house.
Should I prune it? I feel so bad disturbing it, currently he is showering me with masses of exquisite blooms from the second flush. Love this rose

When are you moving? If you can do it the last week and its in a few weeks I'd leave it as long as possible, so its little more than it would be if you were resisting in your own garden.

Personally I would prune lightly and remove dead stuff and any black spot ( I know others would prune more heavily but these guys often do better less prunes, so if you baby it through the move, use root grow fungi and and plant as priority in a nice hole with manure.

If its sooner pick the flowers and leave for buyers?

If its a big root ball put in doubled rubble sacks if you don't have pots big enough, get as much as possible.

Also....

I'd be tempted to spray if it needs it with rose clear or what ever you use, to keep infections in your new garden to a minimum.

Don't know about you but in my low - chem garden black spot has been difficult this year, while my Abraham looks clean, he's next to things that look less so!

passion_flower

We find out today if we move on Friday or next Monday I will literally dig him out the move day I won't do it earlier
I only have 2 Austins AD and a beautiful Eden which is grown over a arch and in a container already and both have been fine this year not had a problem with black spot. I am not keen on chemicals and constantly keep an eye on them. One of my pleasures is to wander around the garden while I drink my morning coffee and check on everybody I try and remove any signs of black spot straight away.
Incidentally the house we are moving to has a few climbers over the front door (need to identify them) and they did look a bit worse for wear but the house is a repo so I doubt anyone paid them any attention for a while.
Thank you

lostinrates

Just like me Passion flower, on ly this year I haven't kept up with the black spot I'm afraid! Oops.

We're lo chem rather than no chem, but I'm afraid after we have finished our autumn border clear up then we'll be doing a bit of a clean up.

passion_flower

I think the real test for me will be this new place. Current garden is a small heavily planted oasis and mainly planted with architectural evergreens not big borders, very low maintenance so it was easy to have a no chem policy.
But the new place is at least 5 times bigger and I am not kidding myself that it will be same.