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I want to plant a new hedge. Would Rosa Ragusa grow on an exposed site on the NW coast. How high will it get eventually. Do I have any other flowering hedge options. I want it to be native, and beautiful and preferably evergreen and about 4 foot high. It is to be at the front of the house and I do not want hedgerow type planting. I have lots of hawthorn on the boundry. The soil is rather heavy, and free draining, but given the amount of rain we sometimes get can occasionally get waterlogged for a day or two at a time in the winter. The digger is coming to dig the trench this week . Help.
I have a beautiful yellow - flowering rose called 'Freedom' which was given to me as a gift. I'm wondering if I can plant it in a large pot and train it up a very sunny wall by my front door?. I'm not sure if it is a climbing / rambling variety... If not, what is the best thing to do with it?. I'm running out of plating space...Thank you!
I have roses planted along each side of my drive-way, but some are badly diseased and need to be removed. What kind of plant/s would be most suitable to put in the subsequent gaps?
I just bought some new rosa rugosa and they are a little leggy and I was wondering when I could prune them.
I moved into this house 4 years ago and there was a rose bush outside, i don't know how many years its been there, it is beautiful but i think it could be a climbing rose, it has grown very tall, it is a bit exposed and has no shelter, i have put bamboo sticks and gardening tape around it but with the wind it is still breaking, i have a shed outside with a flower bed in front of it and wondered would it be better protected there growing against a wall, if l wait and move it in october when i cut it back would i damage the rose bush if it has been in that spot for years, i have only discovered gardening this year and am really only a beginner and don't want to ruin the rose bush, thanks
I know around November is the ideal time to move roses but my friend is moving house and will be gone by July. She has a beautiful yellow rose she cannot leave behind. If she moves it now by digging with minimum disturbance to root, should she cut it back first ? and what are the consequences of moving roses at wrong time of year. Will it just not flower well next year or could it die ?
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