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Sacha[_1_] · 04-10-2006, 10:08 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 4/10/06 07:11, in article
, "DavePoole Torquay"
wrote:

Sacha wrote:

Climbing 'Etoile de Hollande' sounds as if it ought to be wonderful -
velvety red with a rich fragrance. I want one!

That does sound gorgeous. I'll check out disease resistance. Thanks, Sue.

'Etoile de Hollande' is a very fine climber producing a mass of rich
crimson flowers in June, a lesser, but still very impressive show in
late summer with the occasional intermittent bloom in between. It
needs watching for mildew on a dry soil and occasionally gets
blackspot, but is vigorous enough to cope with it quite well. Well
worth the risk IMO

That sounds very probable, then.

'Compassion' is a very good modern HT type, but for that wall it may be
bit too short and rather too stiffly upright. It will take some very
stern training to develop the amount of wall cover you need. Great for
pillars though and limited spaces.

'Shot Silk' would do the job well though. It is healthy and fragrant
with good 'clean' foliage and can cover a large area quickly. Maybe
the shade of cerise is a tad strident for my taste, but it has
fragrance in bucket loads and repeats reasonably well.

Shot Silk sounds a good bet, so I'll look into that one. I don't mind a
bright colour because it's a grey stone wall but not if it's in the
Superstar category of 'strident'! It is a large expanse of wall, even with
the other things left on it and some of the climbers I first looked up only
go to 8'.
We're also going to replace the white Rosa banksia because the old one had
to be ripped out, it was in such a messy tangle. Naturally, this is the
first year it has flowered its socks off, too....the yellow one seems much
more vigorous and floriferous.
That white rose we have outside the kitchen window has also flowered very
well the last two years - I never remember its name proper R. macabeata,
macleata, something like that! The sparrows love it particularly for some
reason, and lots of them roost in it.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/