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Very nice, mazambo So you decided to buy "Limelight" when it was in the limelight

 

Hi Cordy, I don't think you will regret buying it. I usually buy roses bare root but I think it was April? when I bought mine so it was too late to buy as I normally do. But, knowing that plants in pots "get away" more quickly, and as it was a rose I wanted to start flowering and climbing through the Lilac this year, I bought it in the pot and it has settled in very well.
I've been feeding it weekly since I planted the rose under that Lilac and I will stop feeding at the end of August. But it has flowered as you can see from the pics I took late this afternoon after getting home from work, and it has probably put on around 3' in around 4 months. I'm tying the stems as they grow against the lower branches of the Lilac to get it to go where I want it to. I'm hoping next year the displays of our "BathsHeba" will really be fantastic.
I've also got another climber that I bought late last year, Rose "Creme de la Creme",



next to my Arbour where I sit and watch the birds. So, hopefully, they'll both give great displays in their second year of planting.

 

This was waiting for me when I got home today........

Acer "Garnett"




I'm waiting for an Acere "Shin-deshojo

to arrive in the next few weeks. Along with the 11 Bearded Iris which DPD is delivering on this coming Monday.

 

Got back home to find the box of 11 Bearded Iris from Cayeux at the front door. So it was, for me, a quick change into gardening clothes, mixing 90 litres of compost, potting grit, and sand and then filling eleven 7.5 litre pots and planting the Iris with labels and bench numbers.
Glitterati


Another six Iris to go and that should be it for this year, maybe

Eclipse de mai


CORNET ROSE


Perfect Interlude


Lingot D'Or


Ne Dans la Pourpre


Joy de Rohan Cabot


Pleins Phares


Nellie Tardivier


Gyro Phare


High Chapparal

All the Bearded Iris go into a specific place on the 4 tier wooden bench with a bench number and I can refer back to a small plan I have of the bench which names the Iris and shows the spot it is in......hopefully

 

Hi Victoria, I think they would like the conditions where you are . They need the Sun on their rhizomes for energy and only need a little water. The Genus Family of Iris can be found all over the world in different climates so they're quite flexible but Bearded Iris do like the Sun. The general view of the commercial growers is "plant them with the rhizomes on the surface, give them a water, and leave them!!!" I use high potash organic fertiliser and Tomato Feed just to give them extra nutrients to boost flowering. There are different types of Bearded Iris, early flowering, middle season, late and very late flowering, with different heights, and I have a mixture of them to extend the flowering period. Here in the UK they flower from May until August but I couldn't say how your climate would affect their flowering period, but I do think they would love the conditions. They flower for 3 to 4 weeks on stems that can give numbers of flowers from nine to 12 and of course they're so beautiful and spectacular, easy to grow that, for me, they're a must in a garden.

 

I bought this Sedum "Marina" when passing a local Nursery coming home from work as it's a deeper red than the sole Sedum that I have now which is a much lighter pink. The leaves look a bit "off" at the moment but a good planting site and feed will sort it out.