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Growing roses from seeds
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I'm guessing you've seen Osiria rosa? By all accounts a bit of a dud in a home garden, but what I think of when I imagine the Queen's garden.Murphybear said:
I take it the roses weren’t painted.ArbitraryRandom said:If you really fancied the multicoloured route you could also consider grafting.
I can't remember where it was, but there was a stately home we visited a few years back with an Alice in Wonderland theme - and they had red and white roses. I think it took some careful pruning but it looked good.
. Alice was my favourite book as a child and I loved the bit where the cards painted the white roses red as they had planted the wrong ones!
They did also have beautiful tulips on the theme - Google is suggesting they might have been ‘Estella Rijnveld’, but time and memory may be leading me to lie to you.I'm not an early bird or a night owl; I’m some form of permanently exhausted pigeon.1 -
I have seen it nowArbitraryRandom said:
I'm guessing you've seen Osiria rosa? By all accounts a bit of a dud in a home garden, but what I think of when I imagine the Queen's garden.Murphybear said:
I take it the roses weren’t painted.ArbitraryRandom said:If you really fancied the multicoloured route you could also consider grafting.
I can't remember where it was, but there was a stately home we visited a few years back with an Alice in Wonderland theme - and they had red and white roses. I think it took some careful pruning but it looked good.. Alice was my favourite book as a child and I loved the bit where the cards painted the white roses red as they had planted the wrong ones!
They did also have beautiful tulips on the theme - Google is suggesting they might have been ‘Estella Rijnveld’, but time and memory may be leading me to lie to you.. The rose and the tulips look a bit OTT 1 -
I think you mean OWHHMurphybear said:
I have seen it nowArbitraryRandom said:
I'm guessing you've seen Osiria rosa? By all accounts a bit of a dud in a home garden, but what I think of when I imagine the Queen's garden.Murphybear said:
I take it the roses weren’t painted.ArbitraryRandom said:If you really fancied the multicoloured route you could also consider grafting.
I can't remember where it was, but there was a stately home we visited a few years back with an Alice in Wonderland theme - and they had red and white roses. I think it took some careful pruning but it looked good.. Alice was my favourite book as a child and I loved the bit where the cards painted the white roses red as they had planted the wrong ones!
They did also have beautiful tulips on the theme - Google is suggesting they might have been ‘Estella Rijnveld’, but time and memory may be leading me to lie to you.. The rose and the tulips look a bit OTT
I'm not an early bird or a night owl; I’m some form of permanently exhausted pigeon.0
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