Tickle the earth with a hoe, and she will laugh with a harvest

[Rhubarbgarden]

Potting shed chat for all those interested in wittering on about gardens and sharing the love of plants. Plenty of dusty old deck chairs to sit on and sloe gin to warm the cockles; join us!

Number 9

Number 10 and 11

And can I check I haven't list the plot with these ? Number 12 is hellebore and number 13 is clematis. Number 14 mahonia?

Yes the mystery plant is definitely a Cotinus.

Sorry about the tea tree, echt, how very sad. Enjoy the cloud pruning!

There are two versions of Lady of Shallot; the regular shrub rose which is more common, and a climbing version. The trouble with the climber though is that it only reaches 8 feet. It's a big house and the porch thing over the door is quite high, so I don't think it would make it over the door, sadly. I need something more vigorous. I think I'm leaning towards a climbing Iceberg now, even though there's no scent. I'll put a pic of the house up on Osteospermumsnet for those who missed it.

I really am sorry to post do many and thanks so much for all the help, she'll be really grateful.

How about Juniper 'Skyrocket' or irish juniper Echt? Both narrow fast growing pines.

Ppeat it's a good idea to do a cutting from the pale yellow rambler, but I want something that repeat flowers. The rambler is a one hit wonder and looks scruffy the rest of the year, which is fine in a hedge but less desirable on the front of a house.

Oh gosh loads more! It's a Sunday morning plant quiz! Excellent.

7 and 8 are Pittosporums. 12 and 13, yes think you are right, but 14 is an Olearia.

Not sure about the others. Will study them more closely.

10 is jasmine.

Rhubarb you are a total star, thank you so much ! It is really hard choosing the right rose I think, so easy to get it wrong. We just chucked in a couple years ago with no thought and I really don't like them so you're really sensible taking your time and getting it right.

I agree with the plant suggestions so far (although wouldn't have known the olearia; that's a new one for me). 11 I think is solanum. The green berries will go red and are toxic.

I am deeply envious of echt being in Japan. My father went there years ago and I'd love to go.

I was wondering if 11 was solanium but had gone into plant overload by that point. It's by the jasmine which I was staring at thinking I know what it is but couldn't for the life of me think.

Which bit of Japan are you visiting Echt and have you had the chance to see many gardens ?

What is cloud pruning echt? Is it making the trees look like umbrella pines? Did your NDN remove the tea tree that was in the pic you posted? I'm weeping with funny if that's the case .

rhubarb not iceberg, important to have a rose with scent by the front door.

Here are Peter Beales scented white climbing roses of which I haveheard good things about mm hardy
www.classicroses.co.uk/productindex.php?prodfinderformroseColour=whitecream&prodfinderformroseScent=scented&prodfinderformroseCondCanGrowAsSmallClimber=on&type=rose&recsperpage=10&pagenum=1

Also what do you think of Tess?
www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/english/Showrose.asp?Showr=4259&Theme=

I have been trying to cloud prune the ceanothus since last year. Its not very successful as I'm probably not drastic enough and every so often the gardener comes and prunes the whole thing back to a sphere which misses the point
I'm not very good at shapes. The peacock buddlea worked for a while then got out of hand when the tail grew enormous and the neck wouldnt stay neat, but I am persisting with it and with the ceanothus.

Rhubarb how about Mme Alfred Carrière? According to the Sarah Raven book on Vita Sackville West, it was 'trained around her bedroom to pour scent into the house for months at a stretch. It is still there and now has a huge trunk wider than my husband's thigh'

Yes a nice repeat flowering white\cream climber would look lovely rhubarb

Agree about scent too funny IMO that's one of the most important things in a rose, is it me or are some of the modern roses scent free?

did someone mention 9 is mahonia

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cloud pruning

No didn't have number 9, thanks. I agree about the scent, love coming home in the summer and getting a waft of scent. Imagine opening your bedroom window and smelling rose.

It's true, I think, about many often hybrid roses lacking scent. That's probably one of the things boosting David Austin's sales - most of his are well-scented.

Mahonia has a lovely scent in the winter esp. the 'Buckland' genus. We had that in London we've only got the one that goes a nice dark red in the autumn here. It good in shade which is useful though!

I've just had a nice potter in the garden, digging up and potting anything that's substandard and/or annoying me, ready for the gardening society's plant sale when some other poor mug may buy it.

But, I've had a bit of a scare. One of the box balls I was given for my birthday is looking a bit odd (some foliage tinged bronze). It may just be too unhappy because it needs to be planted out but - I ask with a heavy heart - does anyone know what the early stages of box blight look like? It doesn't look like any of the images I've found online, but maybe that's because the online images are of plants in their final death throes.