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Here goes, and feeling bit cheeky as I didn't post much on the last one.

A fine autumn day here, with much seasonal clearing done. Now I come to think of it, is there ever a non-clearing season? :o

Sounds awful GinAndonit . I suspect they might have had it. Leave it a few weeks they may recover.
You could console yourself by pick some lovely new ones from David Austin. Your DP to pick up the bill, of course.

I've just had a closer look, and there seem to be a few tiny bits of new growth/green. I think I'll leave them be for a bit to see if they can be salvaged. Humph.

I managed to visit a garden centre today, and buy no plants.

Although I did get a bottle of rhubarb vodka.

Whoops.

Count it as one of your five a day!

I like your style Pickle.

Gin, I wonder if it is worth hard pruning the damaged bits so that it does not travel further into the Rose's.

Astrantia I gave them a clip back this evening on any bits that had shrivelled leaves, but they are fairly new roses, so they don't have a great deal of growth to cut back! I'm hoping they may be saved, though. Keep your fingers crossed!

Perhaps plenty of water too to dilute the effect. I hope you can save them. I once had a peony that waited 4 years without flowers. Eventually it had huge great buds on it but they were covered in ants. I sprayed without reading the label and that was it. It went into a massive sulk and never flowered again.

Oh no! What a bloody disaster! I think I might ban DP from Round Up from now on - if it gets near the one peony I have, I won't be happy

Will give them a good water tomorrow, that's a good idea.

I avoid having help in the garden now. I have to micromanage it, hovering anxiously within arms reach.

There was the time I was carefully shovelling out bark mulch around my plants and DP helpfully tipped the entire sack up over my seedlings. Lost the lot.

The time DS1 was pulling up dead forget me nots. All this area but just be careful of that lovely white plant at the back, it's not been in long. And don't get too close to the fig tree. All figs were knocked off and the white plant was wrenched up.

If there is a foot sized space in the flower bed, DH will stand right next to it, on some poor little perennial that never recovers...

Bert and Pickle, that made me laugh! I've just had a few vodka and elderflower, even the enterprising barman didn't call it one of five a day

I bought a small convolvus. Also the sunshine has helped the tulips along.

Fritillary won't flower till May will it?

Arghhh pickle! This is one of the reasons I want to take over mowing I think - I want to make sure nothing gets rolled over or cut accidentally!

DH gets the loppers out and fills the gardening bin and comes in with a proud and happy swagger like a cat bringing home a mouse. Fills me with fear.

I used to get Kernipptions evertime my DH bent down in the garden. I would race out of the living room like a shot. It took years to explain the difference between Dead and Asleep. He would snip away with the seceteurs, cutting of my carefully nurtured clematis .Worse was when he would grab by hand 'a load of dead sticks' tidying up the garden. pulling up my Virgina creeper and Clematis Montana and Jasmine,

I would tell the kids that ' if ever Dad rings you up and says I have died in the Armchair, make sure he tries to wake me before he calls the undertaker'.

at swaggering cats.

My DH almost never helps in the garden - maybe it's a good thing after all.

When did you DP spray with Roundup? If. The leaves are shrivelled because of that it must be a while ago - it works by travelling back to the roots and killing them and IME the leaves shrivel when the roots die, but that takes 6 weeks. If it was only recently, you might save them by cutting them all back really hard now and giving them a good feed & water.

Roundup is great for some weeds, like convolulous and ground elder because they spread by their roots so you need to kill the roots - just pulling up the green bits doesn't work.

He did the Round Up about a month ago now I think. I thought he said it doesn't kill the roots, and only kills the greenery that it hits... is that not right then?

It may not kill rose roots as they are bigger plants than ground elder, but as the Roundup website proudly says:

Roundup has been specially formulated to kill weeds right down to the root. So, with Roundup Weed Killer, gardeners know that, once the weed’s gone, it’s gone for good.

The fact there is some growth is encouraging so you could try feeding and watering, but they may be so weakened that it's best to start again with healthy roses. As they haven't been in long you should be ok to plant in the same place.

Oh bugger.

I have some 'spare' roses which I could replace, so I'm half wondering whether to dig them up and stick them in pots where I can keep an eye on them in the hope of saving them, and put the other roses in their place. Or whether to leave them where they are and see if they recover.

I would leave them where they are as I am sure that Roundup says it become inactive when it hits the soil. I am no expert but I would not feed them. That may be too much for the poor little souls. hard pruning and sensible watering is the wary forward I suspect.

I have only just seen it was a month ago. I thought it had only just been done. Still live in hope.

They only got a bit 'rounded up' though, not a proper drenching. You'll soon see.

We're not really sure how it happened! The roundup ought to be bright pink or something as you spray so you can see where it lands! FIL mixed it up for him and he just went round spraying all weeds he could find, but he's not sure if the mixture was a lot stronger than he expected it to be, or if the pressure was harder than he thought so it splashed back while spraying IYSWIM. He did the gaps in the path, and all the grass alongside the path has died too! The poor sod had good intentions I suppose...

Kind colleague has gifted me begonia corms. Or are they tubers? I have only compost to plant them and some sites are saying loam mixture. Don't even know what that is. She seemed to think I could just pop them in a tub with some compost and she's been gardening a while so I hope she's right.

They need to be nestled into the top of the compost rather than buried. All very well except the final saboteur in my household, DDog, picks them out and carries them off. He also ate the top off the black eyed susan vines which I'd grown from seeds saved off the previous year. Pesky, the lot of 'em. I'm surrounded by vandals.