It is so interesting that roses are planted differently depending on where you are. Here in Sweden the recommendation is that the graft place is going 10 centimeters under ground! I Planted a Queen of Sweden today, and hope for a nice growth next year!
Morning Georgie, ive just come across your channel, watched this first....you brighten my day. Im a beginner, this is the first year that ive tried growing flowers for cutting in my small terraced garden. Im interested in drying them too. I cant believe quite quickly ive become avsolutely obsessed with my new garden and flowed especially. Roses are my current favourites...ive inherited 3 which are just beautiful x
Oh no, miss cricket? How awful, not. Roses win every time. Roses, roses, roses. So beautiful. So elegant. That Queen of Sweden is glorious. Do you have a favorite? A list of favorites? I love Lady Hillingdon. Of course, it's hard to beat Duchess de Brabant. I have a small home garden, which limits the number of roses I can grow.
Your garden is fabulous !!! Do you think sometime you could give us a full tour of your garden maybe broken up in a couple videos where you talk about every flower/perrenial you have....and then the annuals....etc.....maybe when u have time....which roses do you buy strictly for cutting like which kind are the best ones to buy
David Austin rootstock is laksa which doesn't give a growth, but is less hardy than Canina. Its better to plant David Austin bud union below the ground for more basal shoots of cultured rose and prevent windrock and frost protection. Roses that are grafted on Canina rootstock are more hardy, but they do give shoots. so those ones are best planted with bud union slightly above ground. Hope this helps.
My David Austin's have often shot from the root stock - very annoying! Whichever way I plant them seems to make little difference. I guess the important bit is to get them in the ground, keep them fed and watered, and cut out annoying shoots from rootstock when they come x
I live near your bare root rose supplier but haven't had much luck with their bare root. I have loads of their roses. Thats why i was asking why you don't recommend i thought it was me.
Interesting that you keep the graft above ground; some (Monty Don?) say it can be buried. ?Confused? but it does make sense to keep the graft above the soil.
Awful thing is I think in long term makes little difference - I just keep an eye out and if ever I see a rose throwing stems from root stick I just cut them out - they are usually easy enough to spot as usually very different from cultivar stems x
Good, morning. I am just reading the section on roses in your book 'the Flower farmers year' alongside watching this video and noticed on p119 you say to plant with the graft under the soil. What made you change your mind on planting method? Thanks - great book and videos
I was getting a lot of shoots from the root stock - this seems to work better - in reality with regular mulching and weeding the join ends up just at surface level x
Question, are you soaking on well water or city/chlorinated water? I've heard about pretreating new roses with an antifungal or some other such thing in the water and I wonder if you do? We are on untreated well water...would love your thoughts!
The roses appear to be very diseased. I would never buy plants in this condition no matter how much of a bargain they are. Not good to support growers like this.
