First Rose Garden
Alan Braunton
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I have ordered some David Austin Roses which are due two weeks time. I have dug in some manure, can anyone suggest some companion plants.
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Alan Braunton
Posts: 48
Alan Braunton
Posts: 48
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Underplant with daffodils and hardy geraniums
..what roses have you ordered?
In this corner of my garden I have 'Lichfield Angel' / 'Munstead Wood' / and 'Sir John Betjeman' interspersed with Geum 'Lady Stratheden', Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve'.. Geranium 'Eureka Blue' Geranium 'Cambridge'[mauve].. Foxgloves and I like to underplant with annuals like bedding Begonias in pink and white..
In Spring, I have Tulip 'Lady Jane' planted en masse with Veronica 'Georgia Blue'...
I hope you find this of interest...
Last edited: 13 October 2016 18:23:16
Pink roses look lovely underplanted with blue, such as Geranium "Orion", Johnson's Blue for early flowering and Rozanne for later flowering. Also blue salvias, Nepeta, veronicas (not tall), compact perovskia.
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You have a nice garden Alan, colourful borders, a large pond and an open outlook at the rear. I like your Magnolia too, I'd be growing a rose through that.
Incidentally, the photo you put up there isn't 'Gertrude Jekyll', that's a pink rose, the one in your photo is 'Lady Emma Hamilton'... have you ordered that one too?... it has a good reputation...
What pretty beds, Alan.
I think that rose is Apricot Nectar but the name has appeared above Gertrude Jekyll. It looks similar to Lady Emma Hamilton which I have. I love Lady Emma, neat habit, red flushed leaves, gorgeous scent, flowers 3 or 4 times a year, never ill (so far).
Yes, it's one I intend to get myself at some point, I always hear such good things about it.
Apricot Nectar is rather more yellow than that, a floribunda, and not an Austin rose although sold by them.
Alan lifted the photo directly from the Austin website..
http://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/lady-emma-hamilton
So he did, but my Lady Emma isn't quite so intense in colour as that. I don't think the colours in print or on the web are always very accurate.
Have you been to the DA gardens, Marlorena? We went 2 years ago in June, they were wonderful.
No Busy-Lizzie, I haven't, which is a serious omission on my part. I just hope to do so one day. Maybe next year... Everyone says it's wonderful... but I know you have some lovely roses in your garden too...