Gertrude Jekyll
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Comments (25)Even here, she was a climber, but I didn't experience any of the monstrous, house-eating, beastly qualities that have been associated with her. The blooms are stunning, and her scent wafted through my yard. As Anne said, you can't pass her without stopping to take in her perfume. She was growing up a porch post but the deer feasted on her so often that she didn't survive. Your garden house is every gardener's dream! Looking forward to more pics of it and GJekyll adorning the pergola....See MoreGertrud 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 MoreIs my Gertrude Jekyll dying?
Comments (12)Thanks for your comments, Vaporvac & Diane! I'll investigate the BS. Maybe Neem oil would help with this? I think you are on target with the watering issue ... that GJ is getting the wrong kind of watering now! We did have a drip system that went all the way down the long garden. In May husband redid the irrigation system. Our long garden runs about 60 fee & he felt the length was too much for the water pressure. So he took out the "drips" and redid the whole system. Now it sprays from the lawn into the garden. Could that change have contributed to the BS? Thanks to your comments, I started watering GJ with a slow drip from a garden hose at her base. Molie...See MoreGertrude Jekyll vs Summer Romance
Comments (0)I recently planted a Gertrude Jekyll rose because I saw so many comments about fragrance and also like pink. Summer Romance looks a bit similar to my eye but curious what others think and what the differences are. Also can you often smell either of these roses without needing to stick your nose right up to the flower?...See Morehtracyn79 PNW-8B
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