Gertrude Jekyll
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Gertrud Jekyll: did she roses n Lavender?
Comments (6)Hi there @ Campanula: thanks for checking in "Roses for English gardens" personally I think La& Ro is a very bad companion combo, but the best garden lore ever, as every lanscaper looks shell shocked if I point out that it is a bad combination (for the Lavender or the rose...) and combining the more civilized Polyantha hybrids is tricky, still fiddeling and testing... (and too little space for species roses) @ mad gallica: thanks or the story about those potpourrie, who`d have thought, this stuff has certainly come a long way, but sadly, no resemblence with the present day perfume-scented artificial stuff, those real rose petals and LAvender. Perhaps a good christmas gift for 2019. I did do a quick Amazon search, and while I avoid ordering stuff from them (with the bad employment conditions and stress in those ware houses) I do buy ebooks. and lo and behold, they stock some old Jekyll-books, the optics are like that of a very cheap and bad paper back, but the text is ok, and I won`t complain if a volume costs less than 2 bucks. So, a new direction to search into, thanks again, bye, Lin...See MoreHelp with Gertrude Jekyll rose
Comments (21)Stephanie, I loved this from the link you provided about wasabi-sabi : "Wabi now connotes rustic simplicity, freshness or quietness, and can be applied to both natural and human-made objects, or understated elegance. It can also refer to quirks and anomalies arising from the process of construction, which add uniqueness and elegance to the object. Sabi is beauty or serenity that comes with age, when the life of the object and its impermanence are evidenced in its patina and wear, or in any visible repairs." I try to have my gardens look as if they belong the place where I put them because ... as it also says in the article ... "nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect." Sometimes I like to imagine what our property looked like 100 years ago and what it will be 100 years in the future. Although, since we live along a river that leads to the Long Island Sound, I'm thinking this land will eventually be shoreline....See MoreWinter protect for Gertrude Jekyll rose
Comments (2)Wave bye-bye, see you in the spring. Mounding stuff around a rose crown in a climate that does not freeze and stay frozen all winter is an excellent way to kill a rose. There are just too many fungi that really like conditions a bit above freezing and wet, and those are exactly the conditions you would be creating. Regarding tying it up - if you are talking about tying canes to the fence behind, that is fine. However, if you are talking about tying the canes together like a package, it doesn't really work as expected. For one thing, those canes never seem to spread back out again the next year. Also, with a thorny rose, it puts all the canes closer together so there is more cane damage from thorns. If there is a path, or something like that involved, you do what you have to do....See MoreAustins -- Gertrude Jekyll or Mary Rose?
Comments (9)Yes, exactly. Here, Mary Rose blooms, drops all its leaves, and doesn't have leaves until next year. I don't have personal experience with Gertrude Jekyll, but its reputation is bad, and its daddy is one of the absolute worst roses for blackspot I've ever had the displeasure of growing, Comte de Chambord. For some perspective, at the time I was growing Angel Face, and it wasn't in the same league. Newer Austins as much better in regards to blackspot resistance. They have to be....See Moremichaelg
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