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P R I O R & S O N S G A R D E N S P E C I A L I S T S Your garden is our priority, A family run business est. 2005 C Old The Rose Nursery Rose Specialist Hybrid Tea/Floribunda: £13.50 Climbers/Ramblers: £16.99 Shrub Roses: £15.99 Ground Cover Roses: £13.50 David Austin Roses: £27.99 (RRP £33.00) Garden design & landscaping In house qualified garden designer. Staged process Planting plans Bespoke features for your garden Turfing&Planting Patios 01797 253 556 enquiries@priorandsons.co.uk container roses A traditional nursery specialising in all types of roses, carefully selected to and new varieties. Select your roses Come and see all the Roses now in Full Bloom. Creating Beautiful Gardens For Brilliant Year Round Results <strong>Wealden</strong> Country Landcraft <strong>Wealden</strong> Country Landcraft For all your design, construction and maintenance requirements, contact: Adam Sutton BSc (Hons) Environmental Science | Tim Playfoot BA (Hons) Garden Design Tel:01892 722699 | Adam:07979 362241 | Tim:07990 751353 | www.playfootgardendesign.co.uk priceless-magazines.com 120
Garden Roses all the Way Jo Arnell turns her attention to the English garden’s most beloved blooms istockphoto.com/artant / Punnarong / Veleri / OGri / Gary Matuschka / Iva Vagnerova Roses are the beauty queens of the summer garden; delicate, fragrant and romantic – and despite stemming from another continent, they seem a quintessentially English plant. Prima donnas, however, do have a bit of a reputation for being tricky and needing lots of TL and for years roses were grown on their own, so that they could be sprayed and primped and grow unimpeded by rambunctious companions. This style of rose garden – I’m thinking island beds, scorched earth sparsely planted with twiggy Hybrid Teas and Floribundas, and all of them unscented – nearly put me off roses for life. Nowadays, thankfully, there are disease resistant varieties around and we have realised that roses are actually vigorous and tough – and most positively benefit from a bit of companion planting. A rose is a rose is a rose All roses started as wild plants, mostly in Asia, but they have been very widely bred and there’s now a bewildering number to choose from. The old roses – Albas, Gallicas, Damasks and Bourbons are at the root of most of our modern roses. These are highly fragrant, usually robust, but only flower once. The repeat flowering Portland Rose was developed in America and crossed with Bourbons and others to make Hybrid Perpetuals and then Hybrid Teas and Floribundas. The Teas have impressive single blooms, while Floribundas sport numerous sprays of smaller flowers, both are remontant (repeat flowering). Some of these powerhouse roses, in the quest for endless blooms, lost their old fashioned blousy charm and fragrance along the way. The New English roses (most bred by David Austin) brought back some of the qualities of the old roses, but kept the vigour and repeat flowering. Smaller roses have been bred for niche environments – there are patio, ground cover and miniature roses for containers and the front of borders. They have all the qualities of larger varieties, but miniatures are compact in growth habit, while ground cover roses are low and spreading. Standard roses are grafted onto a root stock with a long sturdy stem and can be used either as focal points – at entrances and by front doors for example, or within borders to bring height and impact at eye level. They do remind me a bit of the roses in Alice in Wonderland (thankfully they’re available in more colours than red or white) and will need to be supported and carefully pruned to stop them becoming too top heavy. Climbing roses are similar to shrub varieties, but have longer, more pliable stems. They differ from ramblers in that they are pruned in spring, as they flower on the current year’s growth, and tend to be less vigorous. Ramblers flower on the previous year’s growth and usually only once. These have a reputation for being enthusiastic – romping up trees and smothering outbuildings. Prune ramblers after flowering in late summer, although you can re-invigorate an overgrown one by cutting out some of the old thick stems right down at the base in spring. Species roses are robust and although they only flower once, often have other attributes that make them desirable. Rosa glauca has beautiful foliage, a graceful habit and lovely hips, R. banksiae will festoon an arch or pergola with tiny, soft butter yellow blooms early in May, long before any of the other varieties. Whatever your situation, or colour preference, you should be able to find a rose to suit – there are even some that will grow in shade, although most do prefer a sunny site. 121 priceless-magazines.com
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