New roses ordered

[sandy]

I've just ordered 4 new roses from an online firm. I was really only looking for one, something to plant in memory of the only child of friends of mine (he died in an accident 2 weeks ago). Problem when they arrive is going to be where to put them. My eyes are incurably bigger than my belly when it comes to plant-buying.:(


Ordered Peace, then couldn't resist Christopher Marlowe, Mamy Blue and Rosenprofessor Sieber.

http://www.estabrooksonline.com/images/catalog2/varieties/rosa_peace.jpg

http://www.galbraithsinc.com/view_rose.asp?rose_id=249

http://rosenwelten.de/rosen/rose.php?rose_nr=19950

http://www.welt-der-rosen.de/Grafik/rosenprof_Sieber_hil.jpg

[Mags]

All four of them are beautiful Sandy......... you couldn't possibly have ordered just one of them, could you! :-D

[Kim]

All really lovely, but I particularly like the 'Mamy blue'.

How incredibly sad for your friend and her family. Such a waste of a young life. :(

[sandy]

Kim, it took me a week to compose a letter to them that I thought fit to send. I told them I was planting a rose for their son.

[Moli]

Love them all, you sound a bit like me, order them then have to find a space for them!!

[sandy]

Moli, I've reached the stage where I have to turf out other plants to make way for new ones. :(

[Moli]

Moli, I've reached the stage where I have to turf out other plants to make way for new ones. :(
SNAP!!! Glad to see I am not the only one, I have just bought a tree fern! Its residing in my greenhouse at the moment! Luckily I have a big garden!:lol:

[dandysmom]

Moli: you are lucky having a big garden; try squeezing "just one more" in a small City lot....Sandy: they're all gorgeous, especially Mamy Blue. I thought I had a death this year: my William Morris didn't do well during the prolonged heat wave and abnormally dry August; thought it was a goner ...just getting ready to dig up the poor dessicated thing when I saw that it was producing a shoot from the roots (own root plant, not grafted) ! It's one of my three David Austin roses, the other two are Dove (pale pink) and Louise Clements (copper). They're still in bloom. I had Peace before I moved to this house, had to leave it behind as it was way too huge to transplant...a gorgeous rose.

[sandy]

Dandysmom, the Christopher Marlowe rose is a David Austin one. I thought I'd give him another try. My gorgeous Abraham Darby climber was almost killed by frost 3 years ago. It isn't dead, but it took such a hammering that it has never recovered. All the main stems were killed by frost and the plant has not been able to replace them, just pushing out one miserable little attempt at a stem each spring.

I have the impression that Austin roses are more frost-sensitive than others. Mind you, we had temperatures of -18C that winter.

Dove and Louise Clements are stunners, it's hard to choose from his roses, they are all so beautiful. The only downside is the way the flowerheads hang down and are hard to see sometimes. They just have too much weight to carry, I suppose.

[Kazz]

What lovely roses you have chosen. So sorry for your friends loss.

I am going to David Austin Roses this week they are based up the road from me anyone like some pictures taken while I'm there? Off to have a nice look round.

I also wish I had a large garden like your's Moli I have to consider everything I buy these days - due to lack of space. Even though I keep removing slabs and planting more garden.

Karen

[Tanya]

I love the first picture! That rose is so beautiful!