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I'm hoping to be able to post some photos here this summer. I bought two bare-root roses last year, and planted them when they arrived in autumn. Our clay soil is rather shallow, so I bunged in plenty of mycorrhizal fungi and crossed my fingers!
The two varieties are "Gabriel Oak" (deep pink shrub) from David Austin, and "Alba Maxima" (white semi-climber) from Peter Beale. Both have lots of healthy-looking leaf buds starting to open, so I'm hoping that flowers will follow. The Alba Maxima will be trained against a fence once it gets big enough to prune - I used to help my dad look after his roses when I was young, so I'm sure it'll come back to me once I read up on the topic
The two varieties are "Gabriel Oak" (deep pink shrub) from David Austin, and "Alba Maxima" (white semi-climber) from Peter Beale. Both have lots of healthy-looking leaf buds starting to open, so I'm hoping that flowers will follow. The Alba Maxima will be trained against a fence once it gets big enough to prune - I used to help my dad look after his roses when I was young, so I'm sure it'll come back to me once I read up on the topic
How much veg and wildlife can I pack into a 6m x 8m garden in suburban Cambridge? Let’s find out!
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