A friendly stork has brought me a Rosa "Sharifa Asma"

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A friendly stork has brought me a Rosa "Sharifa Asma"
« on: October 15, 2010, 19:04 »
A quite mature bare-rooted rose bush was dumped outside my back door yesterday by a near neighbour who is a professional gardener (he had been asked to dig it out by one of his clients and thought I might like to keep it!)  :unsure:

I dumped it into a bucket of water out of sympathy, then Googled to find out something about it. Apparently it is one of the early David Austin "English Roses" with pink flowers and a particularly strong scent (good start!)

I don't really have room for another quite large shrub rose but I am also a bit of a softy so has anyone out there any experience of this rose to help me decide its fate?  ;)
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Re: A friendly stork has brought me a Rosa "Sharifa Asma"
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2010, 19:27 »
Ooh that sounds lovely! :) Haven't you got a few nice bits of wood that you could use to build a trellis for it to sit against?

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Re: A friendly stork has brought me a Rosa "Sharifa Asma"
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2010, 19:36 »
I haven't got it in the garden here but grew it at my last house. It is a lovely rose and mine never grew more than about 3ft high...not that big really.
It would grow ok in a pot IMO if that would better for you?

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Re: A friendly stork has brought me a Rosa "Sharifa Asma"
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2010, 20:00 »
Thanks Lorna; my DA "Graham Thomas" which "can be grown as a short (8') climber" is this year so high above the trellis that I can't reach it to dead-head it (flowering its socks off even now!)  :wacko:

Thanks Mum also; I could buy a large pot but whether through laziness or whatever I do prefer trying to grow perennials in the soil.

Hmmmmm.......................... :unsure:




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