Gardening: Hints and Help!

Just a gentle reminder to all who have planted out any tender bedding plants or veggies such as runner beans or have early potatoes up to provide some protection at night for the next few days. Particularly North of the M4 corridor. Temperature likely to be quite low outside major urban areas.

Brrrr🥶 Not half, last few days have been very chilly here, but luckily no rain. All my Summer stuff is still in greenhouse, wrapped up warm.

Made a start on getting rid of forget me nots for this year. They will have seeded ready for next year, so all yanked out, Borders need a bit of a weed and dig over now, then all my home sown seed plants, delphiniums and holly hocks Etc.... can go in for Summer. Took drastic action on some bindweed, (hateful stuff), tomorrow it will be cutting back wild geraniums to stop them seeding all over. Great seeing more and more stuff coming out now, loads of alliums doing well, some London Pride, and roses budding up lovely. One is a happy bunny at the moment😁

The roses are looking good, these are the front runners just now, the "old" roses aren't far behind. My favourite is the big shrub rose Princess Anne, very reliable, tall, scented and old rose style. Near our back door, we have perfume in the air! 

Takethedogalong posted on the lockdown thread re teabags and bananas skins. I postedtherebut have also posted here

Thanks for the reminder, I don't like roses in the garden but have recently bought some from my late mum's garden for sentimental reasons. 

I've lost one but the others are doing ok I think. I'm keeping them in containers at the mo and the jury is out about the future 😱, sister in law dislikes them more than me 🤣.

• How many teabags per rose?
• How many banana skin per rose?
•  Should I give both?
• At the same time?

Actually I'll add this to the gardening thread too

Brue you Rose's look beautiful, see I can admire them 😉

Our rambling rector rose, scrambles up theunintersting tree just begging to bloom. Hope it doesn't get caught like it did last year - as it came out looking splendid we had high winds and heavy rain 😢😭.

Nice to have a big rose like Rambling Rector B2, even if you're not keen on roses, at least it's going skywards! OH isn't very keen as they always "get him" marks on his head to prove it. 

I usually do one banana skin per rose, and OH just lobs his tea bags anywhere😂, so it’s not precise!😁

I have come to love roses. Always thought they needed a lot of work, pampering, but so long as you get a few things right, they are actually easy and give so much in return. We use them for security as well, better than razor wire!

Ours are out way early this year. My Winchester Cathedral is in full bloom, and sadly got nipped by frost last week, so a few blooms are a tad damaged, but it’s doing well now. I get roses out of pots ASAP if I can. They don’t seem to like being in pots for very long, get straggly and weak.

Currently out...... 

Charles de Mills, Gallica

Scentimental, hybrid tea I think

unknown B&Q cheapy 😂

Winchester Cathedral, Austin English

Climbing Lady of Shalott.

Lovely roses, I especially like the orange one   At one of the houses we moved to a few years ago there was a rose in the garden that was pink and white, similar to your photo, I remember it was called Handel.

Update on the raised beds , there’s growth , you then find out where the seed went ,or not ! , sowed so more seed on the bare bits 

It’s more peach in real life, a real beauty though, nice and healthy. It was a special birthday present last year. Put lots of healthy growth on in 12 months. 

Raised beds looking good HD👍 

Peachy colour....that's even better