Beautiful! Thank you for sharing your Gargoyle garden :) Have you heard of the book "Macoboy's Roses"? It's a fabulous book for rose lovers. My hub bought me a copy many years ago and I still love browsing through it now and again.
I have some wonderful rose books, but I don't have that one. I wasn't familiar with Macoboy, but I see he is "the" Australian flower expert. If I had one of his books, I'd only be able to drool over the selections, as I wouldn't be able to grow many of them due to our winters. My poor roses have to be able to survive heat, drought, flood, hard freezes, and gales of wind. It's a tough life for a rose. There are roses that like the heat, and there are roses bred in Canada that can take the cold, but it's asking a lot for a rose to do both and more, besides!
What do you feed your roses because they obviously love the diet! :) Pure Poetry really does live up to that name. I love how you've divided your garden into named sections.
When I plant my roses, I put a handful of triple phosphate at the bottom of the hole and cover it with a layer of soil. Thank goodness they have that to "snack" upon, because I've been very remiss in giving them anything the last three years. My oldest roses--the ones that are thriving--were accustomed to received an annual dosing of alfalfa tea:
I would advise against keeping a tight lid on things. It seems to me pressure would build up, and the last thing you'd want is an alfalfa tea explosion! I put my lid on loosely, if at all. I would also warn you against adding anything other than the alfalfa during the "cooking" phase. Trust me, the alfalfa will smell enough. Once, I was daft enough to add a bottle of fish emulsion at the beginning of the week. At the end of the week, I could barely approach the container, and I half-heartedly wretched while applying the concoction
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Have you heard of the book "Macoboy's Roses"? It's a fabulous book for rose lovers. My hub bought me a copy many years ago and I still love browsing through it now and again.
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My roses thank you for looking!
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Pure Poetry really does live up to that name.
I love how you've divided your garden into named sections.
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I would advise against keeping a tight lid on things. It seems to me pressure would build up, and the last thing you'd want is an alfalfa tea explosion! I put my lid on loosely, if at all. I would also warn you against adding anything other than the alfalfa during the "cooking" phase. Trust me, the alfalfa will smell enough. Once, I was daft enough to add a bottle of fish emulsion at the beginning of the week. At the end of the week, I could barely approach the container, and I half-heartedly wretched while applying the concoction ( ... )
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