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What type of trellis are you using to support this rose? It looks GORGEOUS! I like how you don't see any trellis at all, it makes me wonder what your method is as I would like to achieve the same affect in a similar area to yours.
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Thank you, Dinglehopper. Here's what we did:
1. Sunk two cedar posts (old, dead cedar trees, honestly) beside the base of each rose (2).
2. Attached (screwed) brackets to the trim near the top of the posts.
3. Ran another, very slender, cedar post through the bracket and then wired everything (tall vertical post, slender horizontal post, bracket) at the corners tight with a heavy durable wire.
4. Another horizontal cedar post was attached to the vertical posts a little more than halfway up, at the base of the windows, with a concoction of screws and wires.
5. Chicken wire, about 18" tall, was attached to the second horizontal cedar post and the two verticals, again with screws and wire.
It may not last forever but it is holding up very well. It was inexpensive and has worked perfectly for the long laterals my The Pilgrim is always growing. That rose takes a lot of tie-ing in, wrapping, and weaving!
I will try to attach a picture of the bare trellis to this comment.
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Very useful comments with your photos, thanks. It might be worth your while trying for a better clone of Honorine, though: in my no-spray garden (zone 9b, dry summers) it gets a bit of black spot but doesn't defoliate, and it repeats.
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Thank you, Margaret. Your commentary throughout HMF has been so useful to this novice gardener. You are right that I should grow some other Honorine de Brabant clones to compare performance. She is one of my favorites and I certainly wouldn't mind having a few more scattered throughout our gardens.
Do you prune your Honorine de Brabant?
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Thank you! Honorine has been the best performer of the striped remontants in my garden (the others have been hoicked).
Er, no, pruning is something I don't get around to, much! I remove most flower buds from young plants in their first summer, and find it makes an impressive difference to how well the rose establishes itself and covers itself to the ground. I intend to do a hygiene prune each winter (remove dead wood and crossing-over branches), which would be much easier if I also did as intended and dead-headed through the season. In theory, I would remove a maximum of 1/3 of the bush every few years, but Honorine isn't blocking any paths, so she largely escapes. I get away with laziness because I don't grow many HTs, I'm not aiming for showbench roses, and we don't get winter snow, all of which determined the style of pruning widely taught. I have a few early HTs and floribundas, and they make splendid shrubs if not cut back hard each winter.
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What a great name! I love the striped roses. Let me know if you need a "test grower".
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I love to look at pictures of your garden, Maddalena, and imagine that someday mine will have the same sort of beauty. I was wondering, how many plants of A Shropshire Lad and Pat Austin did you use? Thank you.
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two plants of Shopshire lad and two plants of Pat Austin.
Thank you indeed for your kindness, Miss Shallot .
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