Daydream fund challenge part 4

lostinrates

Fay wrote: »

I actually come from quite close to David Austin roses so I migth pop there next weekend as I'm over that way. I really like the old fashioned type roses and the ones the bees can actually get to if they want to. The pergola is painted the same colour as you have used a lot at your place so I'm thinking a pal dish pink or a white/cream would go well. I like lemon roses but I'm not sure it would look right against the green. Thanks again for the advice.
I want more roses in the garden. I have a large bed I'm renovating this year. It's south/west facing but overhung by large trees from the old georgian estate next door so can be dry and shady. Any ideas?

Every colour works agains that colour, its fab. We had hops against it and the pale greeny hop flower was still beautiful. Lemon would be great IMO. A subtle Monet ish sort of palete. . I'd possibly risk the clash of lemon and pink.



You know, LOTs of my roses cope with shade. I'm trying to think of ones that aren't compromised ATM. Very very few, may be half a dozen of mine at best.

Healthy varieties cope best with compromises. Shade will increase leggy ness IME. I allow this and tackle with under planting being taller than I might otherwise go for.

Full double roses aren't actually that bee and wildlife boosting:(. Unless you count aphids and they feed lady birds....but these lady birds, they never keep up... )

But they are beautiful. And incredibly forgiving. Roses are generally tough.

My suggestion is always let your heart choose! And avoid zepherine droughin.

choille

I got the most beautiful book out of Oxfam - new I may add: The Cut Flower Patch;grow your own cut flowers all year round. By Louise Curley for £3.80 reduced from RRP price of £20. They have a small stack of them if any one wants one let me know before tomorrow & I'll get you one if they have any left!
Blawing a hooley here, grey & wet & not inducing me out. A lot of the snow is away making the Mountains look very monochrome - black & white streaks.

I_have_spoken

More snow mid-week if forecasts are correct -

alfie_1

hi all... may i add that the area LIR has planted up/terraced/built/painted/fenced out back and off the old dairy is wonderfull. from when i saw it as a blank canvas it is springing to life ! the roses along the fence line with the fruit trees fanned out .... cant wait to see it all in bloom this summer LIR has what i see as planting visions that are or make no sense to us mere mortals and then when it all flowers i "get it" AND see it ... p.s. the hops were wonderfull.:T

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

hi all... may i add that the area LIR has planted up/terraced/built/painted/fenced out back and off the old dairy is wonderfull. from when i saw it as a blank canvas it is springing to life ! the roses along the fence line with the fruit trees fanned out .... cant wait to see it all in bloom this summer LIR has what i see as planting visions that are or make no sense to us mere mortals and then when it all flowers i "get it" AND see it ... p.s. the hops were wonderfull.:T

Aw. thank you


That was really easy because its vertical. My white borders need work and the gold ones kinda got a bit abandoned last year. I've never had as good Californian poppy seeds as the ones it used the first year...which were normal ones in fancy packaging, but I cannot remember the fancy packaging or I'd be getting more. The saccharine end needs that hit of flame.


If I have enough money in my garden budget at the end of the year I might pull the hedge out over that side and plant yew.



If I had LOADS a money I'd be a great gardener :rotfl:. I'm really good at pointing at things and saying what looks pretty :rotfl:


I'm SO behind sechedule with my garden. My personal aim was to have the front three bits of garden .....the borders ' done' by this summer. I didn't expect the side bit to be needed so long by builders and I didn't expect to sleep so much!

I'd hoped we'd have started in the back the year before last, but such are schedules, huh? And, er.....budgets!!!!

I_have_spoken

My weekend has been so frustrating! Thought I had lost two important things, one of which I re-ordered off Amazon. Have now found both

At least Amazon will accept a no-quibble return. Anyhow, searching high and low also obliged me to tidy up...:D

Had a scout around the garden; the cold and wind haven't done the potato vine and honeysuckles any favours :mad:. I always knew the potato vine was marginal but have mulched it in the hope it might come back from the base.

choille

What has shocked me a lot is going about & seeing all the storm damage - trees snapped off half way up their huge trunks. There's a lot of trees down everywhere. I think we've been quite lucky.

My garden is a disaster but everywhere is now gone to bog after the thaw. The breeding sheep are up to their knees in mud now. The water is just pouring down the croft. It's quite awful. But it does amaze me how quick it can dry out given a dry spell.

Got a sample of grey paint & it looks good, so I'll go with that for the kitchen.

Fay

I love seeing photos of everyone's garden, so inspiring. I enjoy seeing the planting combinations as I'm useless with that.
I started my chili seeds yesterday and treated myself to a basic electric propagator. I think we are going to do raised beds too, as inspired by Dave! Let's hope my veg is as successful as his. Have a good monday everyone, I have a long one, added to by my hours commute either way, boo.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

morning all,


feeling really frustrated.. huge blow-out with youngest yesterday, about sorting out his room, in the end I threw a guitar down the stair, and he said he didn't give a shhhiiittte, no wonder it was hubby's.. kept on telling me he was 19, and can do want he wants..


so today, I am off work, hubby will be back from work to, to help clear his room.. he will have a shock when/if he comes home from work, as EVERYTHING will be gone from his room.. even the bed if I had my way lol...


right off to have a cuppa and toast, and let the battle of the crap begin ( again)

ferretkeeper

Thanks Dave for confirming what I thought, the final decision will depend on price now, I like a good deal

No farm livestock will be getting near these hedges, they're just for round the garden. I think all evergreens are bad news for them to a greater or lesser extent, a friend lost a goat after it ate privet, her other animals were fine, can't have eaten as much.

My goats and sheep have had access to the privet in one of our field hedges with no ill effects but they'll be kept away now, it's where my polytunnel will go and has been fenced off. When my neighbour lived here he ripped out a native hedge row and replaced it with the privet, such a townie! However it has been cut hard back and hopefully will thicken up to screen prying eyes from the lane looking in.

My garden is also a disaster area, although the chickens have been helping greatly, the surface of the raised beds is lovely and crumbly I just hope they haven't destroyed the few plants I did get in last year

The soil in the raised beds has sunk a lot, I don't know if I'll top them up again, it's bloomin hard work lifting and tipping barrows in!

However I do want to muck out the 'deep litter' areas soon, so there's going to be a lot of straw and hay with sheep and goat contributions available....I wonder whether it's too strong to put straight down where there are a few plants, the top layer is just hay, the lower layers should be fairly well rotted down. I think it'll be ok if I stay away from the main stems with the stronger stuff.

But the first lot is going in the raised beds where the new hedges will be planted, with topsoil over so that'll get them off to a flying start

I love roses too, got far too many, I love combining them with other climbers and I will be getting some ramblers through these hedges once they're established.

I've got a Kiftsgate rose growing up the 10' high wall that's topped with 6' of trellis between me and my nosey neighbour above. It's doing well, so much so that some late sprouting long branches have been damaged in the wind where I didn't tie them in

It seemed like a good idea at the time but could it get so big and heavy one day that it catches the wind and pulls the trellis over :eek: