Under Planting Roses

As you know Woo, I have a rose bed in progress and feeling the need to keep weeds down I will be underplanting. I will be taking the underplanting literally as the plants I will use will be less than the height of the roses. Why have the roses and not be able to see them?

 

Good choices Woo. At the moment I'm thinking Lavender, Dwarf Irises (a passion for, I developed a year ago), Campanula, for around the edge of the bed and like yourself Geranium's. The list is still being churned over in my meagre brain.

 

I'm going to give this a try too this year purely by accident a bronze fennel seeded it's self under a lovey lemon rose(sorry don't know the name) but as it grew up and through the rose it did look really lovely

 

Ive just been googling ideas aswell after reading this thread and i came across an old GC thread named 'What to plant under roses' http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/what-to-plant-under-roses.15461/
Woo your post made me giggle

 

Nice one Joolz...it's good to look back on old threads
I'm a lover of Ladys mantle ...i know not everyone is ...but IF i actually cut any roses for the house i nearly always put a stem or three with the roses...
And yes Woos post is a classic

 

I love Alchemilla Mollis too Loli. It helps bulk up a little posy and looks so pretty always. Such a glorious shade of green.

 

I shall be keeping an eye on this because I'm also going to plant out some roses if/when my cuttings grow big enough

I'm not too worried about them not getting enough nutrients, because I'm happy to feed them all regularly to make sure they get their share.