Simple gardening advice

London_1

Good Morning I wonder if anyone can help I am moving in the next 6-8 weeks and my daughter bought me from a specialist rose grower an Albertine Rose for Mothers Day.it looks pretty healthy and is in  sealed bag. Now do I plant it in a container or do I wait until we move then plant it in my new garden. I don't want to plant it in my existing garden then kill it buy digging it up for the move Any suggestions would be appreciated

  JackieO xx

P.S she bought it for me as my late Mother had one in our garden when I was a little girl and I loved the smell of it 

FreeBear

Find yourself a large pot and use that for the rose. Keep it watered, and it should be fine for a year or more. Once you have settled in to your new home, you can think about where to plant it in the ground.

ChilliBob

See if you can find a good nursery near by, not garden center, nursery!.. Show them the pics and they will probably give good advice. We have a couple near us and they jumped at the chance to give advice. You may need to consider where the sun comes from - some stuff needs loads, some stuff can deal with whatever.

Skip the laurel, especially cherry laurel, we have some and they are beasts! 

Eldi_Dos

@London-1   Rosa Albertine is a climbing rose so need to take that into account when picking a site for it.

To keep in a container until move, get a large container with drainage holes,fill the bottom with around 50mm of gravel then fill with John Innes soil (not compost) and place plant in container.Then make a wigwam with four tall bamboo stakes tied at the top, this will allow it grow upwards as its natural inclination.
It is important to put rubber stoppers on top of the bamboo to protect eyes as people will have a tendency to lean in to smell the plant.

jusferbrowsing

Not a bush but I found lavender grows well in scrubby areas at the side of our drive and smells lovely. A little trim keeps it in shape and fresh. 

FreeBear

ChilliBob said: Skip the laurel, especially cherry laurel, we have some and they are beasts! 

Best pruned at ground level. Trouble is, the darned stuff will sucker up from the roots, so you need to keep at it.

Finally got rid of mine with the help of a mini-digger

Chickereeeee

London_1 said:

Good Morning I wonder if anyone can help I am moving in the next 6-8 weeks and my daughter bought me from a specialist rose grower an Albertine Rose for Mothers Day.it looks pretty healthy and is in  sealed bag. Now do I plant it in a container or do I wait until we move then plant it in my new garden. I don't want to plant it in my existing garden then kill it buy digging it up for the move Any suggestions would be appreciated

  JackieO xx

P.S she bought it for me as my late Mother had one in our garden when I was a little girl and I loved the smell of it 

Just FYI, it is not the best idea to resurrect a 3 year old post (even at this time of year) with a completely new question.

You would get better response by starting a new one.

ThisIsWeird

NibblyPig said:

I have never done any gardening before. I moved house recently. I don't actually have a garden but there is a kind of flower bed along the front of the house.

Here's a picture:



I pulled all the bushes and plants out including the roots. As you can see the neighbours don't care about theirs and it is massively overgrown, so things CAN thrive in it.

What I would like to do is plant some nice bushes in.

Here's the next house along the road:


It looks lovely. I asked them what they planted but they said they would have to find out.

I would like to plant something similar, or the same, I don't mind. But my two questions are... what can I plant that is kind of bushy like that but not prickly and won't hopefully grow to monstrous heights?

And how do I plant it, I have never planted anything before, do I just dig a small hole and chuck it in?

Many thanks for any advice!

https://www.thompson-morgan.com/top-10-evergreen-shrubs-for-small-gardens

I'd personally try and choose sizes that won't need keeping in check. I'd also space them so that they remain individual bushes, and don't meld together - as that laurel example will (it'll become a large hedge that'll need constant shaping to contain).

Fill in between with ground-cover plants, ideally colourful - focus on a simple choice of colours, such as purple and white. Or whatever you prefer.

Then spread bark chippings over the remaining ground, and get a trigger spray of 'Roundup' or similar - shoot each weed as they appear. Jobbie jobbed.

But, plan out the layout before going ahead.

If you want a taller feature, you could choose slim columnar conifers, slow-growing, so perhaps reach 6' max. Plant three of these, and add lower bushes in between.

Most of the above are ericaceous, so you may need to give them regular acid baths.

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