OwdPotter's new rose garden

Overall of cottage bed, end of May

Munstead Wood foreground left, other roses in this bed yet to bloom.

 

June.
Top pergola

Generous Gardener & Toyah.

Falstaff. I love the colour and fragrance but it does not produce many blooms.
Planted as a shrub rose, It acts like it wants to be taller than that.

G.G, beautiful, fragrant and fragile,
Copious petal litter is normal

 

Rose bed

 

Lower pergola & new raised bed



I’ve planted this up loosely as a dry garden with sisyrinchium, osteospermum, stipa tenuissima, plus sedums and stonecrops to tumble over the rock edges.
It’s a bit of an experiment whilst I make up my mind what I want to do with it.
Whether it will last, time will tell

 

Superb 'Roald Dahl', it really glows doesn't it?.. a standout.

I like that rockery too.. I love rockeries.

 

The roses look amazing Owdpotter.

 

Thanks @Sheal
@Mrs Hillard, it does. It’s my best performing rose, most floriferous, beautiful bloom shape and colour, and lovely growth and shape to the shrub, my other DA roses can only dream of looking so good. Only shortfall for me is lack of fragrance. DA claim ‘light’ I think, I get nothing at all.

 

Purple chaos in the cottage bed.
Rhapsody in blue

Rose de Rescht

Tuscany Superb, on a sturdier obilisk reconstructed in spring

 

Top garden & cottage bed

 

Just caught up with your thread @OwdPotter. It's all looking lovely.

 

Spent a couple of hours yesterday, training and tidying Adelaide d'Orleans.
This rose is 2 years old this month and has just about covered the side screen.
I can say that the decision to use pvc netting to cover the pergola has worked out better than I ever imagined.
It has proven perfect for training the soft whippy growths of a rambler.

None of this growth is 'tied in', I simply weave the soft flexible stems (upto 2m long sometimes) carefully through the netting passing them back and forth horizontally across both sides of the screen, gradually working upwards.

It is something I do 3 or 4 times a year as and when I notice all the new growths getting too long and unkempt and generally takes me an hour or 2 each time working the stems carefully where I want them.
It is now up and over the top and I am beginning to train the canopy,

I'm very happy with it's performance over 2 years, though this rose is very vigorous and I can see this might be a harbinger of future effort required to contain it.
But that's the future and, for now, I am looking forward to a good display next year and getting stuck into training the canopy to complete the vision.

 

Your Adelaide d'Orleans has done so well, as have all your roses. Looking forward to seeing her in flower next year.

 

I agree with Busy-Lizzie, that looks really good.

I've done something along the same lines but used stand-alone metal trellis panels at right angles to each other in order to train a DA Claire Austin rose which is very enthusiastic! I needed something to tie the long whippy canes horizontally and stop them being blown all over the place in our westerly winds. Didn't think about using netting, must remember that perhaps for my newish Ghislaine de feligonde rose.

 

Thank you @Busy-Lizzie
It has been such a hectic year otherwise since summer, that garden has been neglected.
The weeds enjoyed the freedom and made the most of my back being turned. I didn’t even find time to give roses their 2nd feed.
I have just now started to find time again and begun to reclaim it hopefully in time for next year

 

Thanks @lizzie27
My Ghislaine de Feligonde, on middle pergola, is on a traditional timber trellis side panel which is rather flimsy and, I expect, will fall apart at some point, by which time I hope GdF will be large enough, and well tied in enough to be self supporting.
I have also used the pvc netting over the top of the pergola on which to form the canopy, which this rose is also about to embark on next year hopefully.
Although also a rambler, I find GdF is a different beast to AdO, it’s canes are stiffer and sturdier and, intuitively I don’t think I will be able to weave it into the netted support in the same way as AdO.
I hope to be able to pass stems through the netting but I am expecting to have to cut out sections of the screen as necessary to allow training of stems and to then to tie in stems as usual.
I will of course let you know how I get on when I find out