In order to enhance our new garden path we have gone completely over the top...
On Wednesday LeClerc had a good selection of standard rose bushes for sale. I have always wanted one, so we chose a.....
It has been planted in a new circular bed, dug by Elizabeth, in the centre of our front lawn (weed bed)
We now need now some 'Guards'. Fortunately LeClerc were also selling a good selection... Trouble is, it is my son Stephen who is the expert on these things; he owns several. We just could not make up our minds on which ones would be best!!
Any preferences??!
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All from the middle row...
Obviously the one with the spade....
he or she* can be moved to each newly planted area.
For the potager...
the one holding a couple of very large beafsteak tomatoes!
Or is that a female dwarf?
And for sheer stupidity...
the one that is missing its right leg and appears to be watering the left one!!
*Both sexes of dwarf have beards...
you can only tell the difference by the cut of the armour....
information from T. Pratchet Esq.
Nice old rose variety, should have plenty of scent. No scent - may as well plant cabbages.
My parents bought a pair of dwarf conifers in 1950. The trees were twenty feet tall in 1975 when Dad cut one down and took the top off the other. "Dwarf" just means "slow growing"! P.
One of the problem with the big "hypermarkets" etc for plants is that they are generally not well looked after, and b, the choice is terrible. Jardiland in Chattelerault is better, but for roses you need to go here: http://cailleau.patrick.free.fr
Call and turn up. We spent ages looking for a rose we had in our garden in England, couldn't find it anywhere, We did found it here.
That's a good lead for roses, thanks. I get the David Austin catalogue each year and I'm always on the lookout for new "favourites".
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