Gardening: Hints and Help!

Hosta, this is a beauty, lovely colour, repeats, doesn’t get too wild, good scent. 

https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/bathsheba

Look for English Climbing Roses, rather than ramblers or climbers, as they are bred (David Austin) to be more compact. Bathsheba can get up to 3 metres, which seems a lot, until you look at others that can easily do 7-10 metres! Austin roses are expensive, but you might find same rose cheaper if it’s sold under license.

Do a search for English Climbing Roses, lots of colours👍

Hosta, if there's any chance you can visit a garden centre you'd be able to see climbers in flower just now and maybe pick out one that you like, look out for the disease resistant ones and the height you want. 

I don't grow many but I have a lovely rambler called Wedding Day which only flowers once and I have a pretty little rambler that keeps on flowering, called Blush Noisette (lots of little pale pink double flowers.) Both scented.

Have a look around at neighbours gardens, often the roses doing well will do well with you. I'm in a village and some of the roses on the cottage walls are stunning but we don't have big enough wall space! 

I've just been outside, dead heading roses, picking up leathery magnolia leaves, having a general poke around before the rain arrives, we need more. Everything smells of fox, I know when he's visited!   🦊

Photos coming up - fingers crossed. I hope they answer all your questions, I'm doing this a cooking dinner!

It seems to be about 4 foot tall. Please don't think this is where it lives! I've started shifted pots off the block paving ready for its clean Thursday and Friday,  starting with the vicious ones, as you will note by the old thorns. It was a spiteful devil to get out of the ground into the car at full-length then into a pot!

Second attempt!

Photos first

Right I won't blow it's brain with 5 at once photos. Sever errors! Bear with me!

Well what a contrary forum it appears my server error post has appeared. I'll leave it to settle for a bit and then check.

Dinner really does need attention but I'm loving the garden

Takethedogalong I'm really grateful for your efforts but don't neglect your own tasks. We've lived with the mystery for probably 40 years a few more won't make any difference. Not done much research myself but so far I reckon Sir John Betjamin is my front runner. 

Looks like you have a floribunda rose there (multiple heads) my nearest guess is Rose Red Wanderer! 

Brue you could be right, but not every stem has multiple blooms, there are singles, 2, 3 and 4 buds. The bloom stems do tend to arch over with the weight of the bloom but not as heavy as I have seen other rose blooms drop more than curve.

I'll try for more photos in a bit.

Read more on the David Austin rose Sir John Betjeman and discovered bloom named in 2008, it was 1984 when he died - so won't be that one!

I'll post whilst I'm able and do photos etc a bit later, who knows with this site?

Takethedogalong more photos, I see the puppy managed an appearance in them! She tones in well with the patio furniture. I hope this helps but as I said no worries. I dragged it out 9f it's temporary home and it went back in at a slightly different angle and I spotted the buds but wasn't going to drag it out again 

Thanks everyone for your help, my wife really likes this one. But still looking at the other recommended  ones. Funny went to two garden centres yesterday , neither had any climbers in stock , one stated it would be December before they would have any.