Rose Bush

[BikerBob]

Can anyone give me a link to a website specialising in the sale of Rose Bushes in the UK please?
Have tried Crocus without success so far!
Thanks
Bob

[Gardengirl]

Hi Bob,

There is a site www.roses.co.uk which I think specialises mainly in the sale of Harkness roses.  This may help.

Good luck

Pat

[Palustris]

Try this site. www.verymuddyboots.co.uk Then click on Nurseries (top leftish) then on Roses in the list. It gives 8 sites whixh sell various kinds of Rose bushes (hideous things they are anyway!)
Eric

[john_miller]

The RHS website will also give you a list of rose growers under the plant finder link. Many are specialists.

[BikerBob]

Thanks everyone for your info, the muddyboots one is very good as is the Harkness site, so got something to work on there. Now have to get my head round Floribunda and Hybrid Teas again, as I`ve forgotten all about them and will need to brush up again, unless someone can give me a quick resumee.
Thanks Bob

[Palustris]

Not much difference these days really. HT one to three flowers on a spur. Floribunda smaller and lots more flowers on a spur. Pruning same, feeding same. Dead heading same. No disbudding of floribundas for bigger flowers as with HTs. Dig 'em all up and compost them anyway. They all have thorns, black spot, rust, mildew, rose chafers, leaf rolling bees and b....y aphids.

[budgiebreeder]

Would I be right in saying that you don't like Roses much Eric??

[Muddy_Boots]

Try this site. www.verymuddyboots.co.uk Then click on Nurseries (top leftish) then on Roses in the list. It gives 8 sites whixh sell various kinds of Rose bushes (hideous things they are anyway!)
Eric

Coo! Think I'll have to complain - they have stolen my moniker!!!

[budgiebreeder]

Tec 'em to Court sue 'em Muddy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gardengirl]

Don't listen to Eric Bob (no offence Eric, but I happen to love roses, especially the old fashioned ones )

I don't have much black spot, if any, as I spray with Multirose in the spring - seems to do the trick.

Pat

[BikerBob]

Thanks Eric, I don`t agree they all have thorns, just like they don`t all have a fragrance/perfume, and some are more resistant than others to diseases. Thanks for the tips. I think a bit like you that they are too prickly most times, but then it`s not me who wants them, it`s my partner and she does`nt have much of the garden to use anyway, as I pinched most of it for veg and fruit.
Bob  

[Hyacinth]

Oh OK Bob, spect you've gotta do what a man's gotta do. I'm with Eric on this one,tho, 'cept, when I was in Oxford in the summer and roses were cascading down over the walls? Wonderful. But why not give her a present of hedging roses - rosa rugosa are they - then she can make rose-hip syrup and I bet someone here will tell you how to make wine out of them, too..yep! the scenario's shaping up nicely -   Lish

[Garden Manager]

Rose Suppliers:

How about 'Peter Beales' roses. They have a good website selling their roses.

Or what about David Austin, for more modern/shrubbier roses?

PS for good looking but tough shrub roses, Rugosas are good. Only come is magenta or white, but have good foliage, autumn colour, disease resistant and like all soil types (even shallow chalk -  thats why i like them). Pr*ckly as h*ll though!!

[BikerBob]

Thanks Richard and Lish.
Am leaving Roses with my partner to sort and order etc as she`s the one who wants them, so have directed her to the sites recommended on here.
Bob

[Palustris]

I like Roses. I like Roses. I like Roses.



In other people's gardens where I don't have to suffer for them!
Right?

[Garden Manager]

I like Roses. I like Roses. I like Roses.



In other people's gardens where I don't have to suffer for them!
Right?

Thats too bad Eric. Sorry you feel that way.

You dont HAVE to coset them you know, ie spray spray spray.  I grow my roses organicaly, and yes they do get blackspot, but the birds and 'good' insects get rid of the aphids for me (well MOST of them anyway), and I still get a reasonable display out of them, even though my soil isnt perfect for them.

[Palustris]

We had lots of David Austin English roses. Most of them have since died from the problems mentioned above. And that was despite cossetting them and spraying with organic and inorganic stuff. By midsummer most of the survivors are leafless and flowerless. And these are supposed to be resistant to diseases.
Sickest of all is that the hedgerows are stuffed full of briar roses with not a single solitary black spot, aphid or splodge of mildew to be seen.
Our climbers and ramblers and rugosa are better than t'others but still not as good as they used to be in the dirty old town.

[campanula]

i love roses and am planting several on my allotment -
old stylee shrub roses such as compte de chambord and climbers including zepherine drouhin and madame gregoire staechelin (gorgeous). i have several david austin roses as i find them very resistant to mildew and rust (compte de champagne, graham thomas) and have also bought roses from peter beales. are you near colchester bob? there is a very good nursery, cants of colchester. in particular, i have a gorgeous floribunda rose named 'jenny's rose' from them - beautiful.
do not be deterred by the naysayers - a bourbob roses is a thing of beauty and small fantastic too.
cheers, suzy

[campanula]

i mean a bourbon rose

[Muddy_Boots]

Have to admit, whenever I had a garden, couln't resist having roses, black spot, aphids and all!  The scent is just irresistable, specially on warm evenings spent sitting out in the garden just enjoying it all, along with the white jasmine and stocks!

Just loved coming home from work on a balmy evening, walking through my tiny garden to the front door and being assaulted by all those gorgeous scents!  Wind down or what?  Then a drink in the garden before cooking dinner!  Bliss!  Expecially when hearing the trickle of water from the little tiny water feature as well!  Could have been in Italy!  

Kate