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Luckygirl Mon 15-Aug-16 14:03:16

Oh - thanks for that link - I have bookmarked it.

I have pruned roses before and would not be averse to the dead-heading job - it is not digging!

As for the spraying, I will have to look all that up.

Maybe I could have roses and lavender in the same bed??

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hildajenniJ Mon 15-Aug-16 13:56:32

I love scented roses but unfortunately we have very little success with roses in our garden. Here is the top 10 scented roses as chosen by Amateur Gardener magazine. Hope you have success with them.

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rosesarered Mon 15-Aug-16 13:45:28

....and I thought this thread was all about ME! grin
I do love all sorts of roses, their scent is wonderful, but they need a lot of attention, pruning, feeding, and spraying for everything under the sun.Constant dead heading, and so on. Bare stems in Winter.
Would you not like something low maintenance and also evergreen?A lavender bed would look great.

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Luckygirl Mon 15-Aug-16 13:07:54

Having just moved to a new bungalow we have, for the first time, a real garden full of lovely shrubs and evidence of lovely bulbs.

We are in the process of having a patio created in front of our bedroom window and in front of that, at a slightly lower level is a bed about 6 foot deep and 12 wide that currently has some soft fruit in it. We are not experts in soft fruit and it all looks a bit weedy and straggly. There are a couple of raspberries, white currants, blackcurrants and red gooseberries - but it is all overgrown and they look a bit sorry for themselves, as does a rhubarb.

I had the idea that it might be nice to fill that bed with roses of all different sorts, scents and colours - it would be lovely to look out on from the patio, and also it would be our view from the bedroom.

Any advice to offer from any of you knowledgeable gardeners?

- varieties - I would really like all scented ones
- when to plant
- how close together to plant
- preparing the soil - we have tons of compost here, left by the previous owner
- pruning
- ?varieties that flower at different times of year.

And anything else that I have not asked that I should know!

Many thanks in advance!
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