On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 19:39:33 +0000 (UTC), "Robert"
wrote:

Sally Thompson wrote:
: Two years ago we bought a Paul's Himalayan Musk to go over our rose
: arch. Last year it bloomed well, was fragrant, and looked just like
: the pictures of this variety. However, although this year it is
: obviously about to flower, it is not climbing at all. In the David
: Austin catalogue (not where we bought it) it is listed as vigorous, so
: I'm a bit puzzled. Does anyone else know if they are slow to get
: going? The other possibiliity, of course, is that we don't have a
: climber at all but have been sold a look-alike.

do you have an open soil, I just wondered if it the roots were contained in
some way?

Well, the rose is planted in a home-made planter which is very large
(about 3ft by 18 inches), so I wouldn't have thought that would
contain the roots. We originally saw this rose going mad over a
similar arch, so hoped to achieve the same effect in time - now we are
wondering if the nursery actually sold us a different (non-climbing)
variety, although it looks exactly like the pictures on the David
Austin web site.


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Sally in Shropshire, UK
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