roses in pots

beautiful roses...hope they grow well for you

Hi Elsiemay and Izzy
Thanks for looking. I will be spending a fair bit of time uploading pics of flowers etc. This is my first posting as have spent most evenings in the garden but now nights are drawing in will spend more time planning, scheming, picking brains (others naturally, mine is wearing out!), and hopefully sharing experiences with anyone I meet here.

Very interesting blog and must say your roses look better than mine.
This is the first year I have tried them in pots, one not bad the other struggling. Must get some well rotted manure !

Lovely Tetrarch! :) I love roses... I have about 40 different kinds, mostly David Austin...I love the shrub roses with great perfume! None in pots though...yet!

Hi there Tetrarch, have just posted a photo of my rose.

I think it is a really great idea to do a "running commentary" on how your roses get on! :-) As I only have a balcony to garden on I don't have much room for roses. :-) They are a plant I've always liked & have grown a few over the years especially while I still lived at home but was working & could afford to buy them.

One year I bought a brand new introduction of a low growing yellow rose from Ireland! I bought 6 bushes, they cost me a fortune back then, (back end of the 60s!) but they were still alive when I returned from Spain in 2001! Unfortunately my brother grubbed them up a few years ago. :-(

He did the same with the 3 shrub roses Fred Loads I had planted under the living room window in about 1970. Now there was a rose I admired & still do! When we got this flat I got one bush & put it in a big square pot in a corner of the balcony. It has had some flowers but it has never done remotely as well as the 3 bushes in my mum's garden. I have always suspected that it finds itself too cramped after all it's capable of throwing up huge heads of flowers over 2m high!

I've posted a few pictures of the bush on my balcony, in my photos.

Sorry I didnt get round to answering this Balcony, it arrived on the day we left for few days holiday. Sounds like your bro not a fan of roses..shame on him!!

I did try to find your pic but didnt succeed but almost certainly you are right. They dont recommend climbers or tall vigorous roses for pots. Im chancing my arm with Alfresco which is a shortish climber...

Don't worry about that! We all have other things to do & don't always get around to answering people as you as we would like to!

You say you couldn't find my photos of Rose Fred Loads, well here is a link to the page where you can see some of my photos:

http://www.growsonyou.com/garden/show_garden_item/14331-rose-fred-loads

Hope you enjoy them as much as I do! :-))

managed to get to see your Fred Loads at last Balcony, what a super colour! And love your balcony, it must be a joy to see over the summer months. Really lifts the heart

Thank you, Tetrarch. yes the balcony does usually look very nice but the last year it hasn't been at all good. My Fuchsias, for example, haven't done nearly as well as last year. Even so people seem to like it!

Glad you liked my Fred Loads rose. Unfortunately it didn't flower very well this year either & I only had one flush of flowers. I left the flowers to produce their hips this year so perhaps that's the reason.

This is such a great idea, Tetra, and I love roses, got quite a few in my garden too. My OH loves Zephirine Drouhin, an old Bourbon Rose...mainly because it is thorn-less...It does have a lovely scent, but droops quite a lot. Not the best disease resistance either unfortunately....

If you have a fair amount of space Flori try Banksia Luteum its a tiny dainty yellow rose..rosette really, on a climbing plant, loves the sunshine and is thornless and very unusual. See pics on my Visit to Biddulph Gardens in Places to Visit. I bought one to go on my new gazebo, when we put it up in spring.

I have seen these, they are so pretty, and I love the colour yellow in a garden too...thanks, you have just reminded me of this...and I have a spare Garden Voucher just itching to be spent......lol. Will check out your Biddulph pics....You are a star...may you continue to twinkle brightly\0/x