Non alpines: other types of gardening: growing veg.etc for instance

[annew]

We've just had our first strawberries of the year, and our biggest one yet. Guess where Scale Bear (10cm high sitting) has just been on her holidays. More of that later.

[Gerry Webster]

As someone  says, "There's often a clue".  No narcissus (wild) there.

[Alan_b]

I may get drummed out of the SRGC for even suggesting this, but I would quite like to see a whole Subject/Section on non-alpines rather than just a single thread.  Any chance of that, Moderators? 

[Maggi Young]

I may get drummed out of the SRGC for even suggesting this, but I would quite like to see a whole Subject/Section on non-alpines rather than just a single thread.  Any chance of that, Moderators? 

No chance of you being drummed out, Alan - the SRGC is " for people who love plants "

The problem with making a new "non-alpine" section is one of potential cross-overs. We already find this with, for instance;  bulbs/flowering now. People get confused about where they should be posting.  Throughout the history of this forum there have been posts and threads about all sorts of plants - many of them a long way from alpine - I hope that  forumists will see the huge variety of subjects covered and feel free to begin new threads  on whatever plants they wish to highlight.

There are already many non-alpines featured throughout a vast number of threads so it would be impossible to transfer those to a special section and I  don't think it would be too easy to isolate even more directly non-alpine threads to a new section.
So,  perhaps not a new section at the moment, but for sure any new threads are more than welcome!

[John85]

Two weeks ago I asked for your suggestions for very healthy roses.Not a single answer so I wonder:
Are you growing no roses at all?
Or are you spraying that much that no fungi make a chance
Or are all your roses so full of diseases that none is healthy?

[Maggi Young]

I cannot be of much help to you John. We only grow  three different roses - one is a Rosa sericea,  from seed collected by Alistair McKelvie, one is a climber of an old type - looks a bit like 'Seagull' but is actually the "Countess  something" - our friend who we got the cutting material from cannot remember and we've never found it out.... and  the third is a pink dog rose/ moyesii type that I cannot recall the name of either!

The sericea and the unknown single pink are both very healthy, no problems at all.  The old climber gets  black spot  but we don't treat it.

I tolfd you I wouldn't be any help!

 I have , however, remembered that I had promised to send hips of the sericea to Peter T.  in a previous year ----- must remember this year!

[Roma]

I'm not much help either.  I only have two roses.  'Nevada' usually gets black spot.  (I don't know why I keep it)  This year it has two shoots which are not too badly affected and are flowering well.  Rosa moyesii 'Geranium'  is disease free and is flowering well this year. 

[John85]

Small streams make big rivers:already 3 cvs/sp that are healthy.
Some more please:may be you have an experience with the new rosa rugosa hybrids.

[Michael J Campbell]

Having worked for years amongst one and a half million roses  almost every day I am proud to announce that I don't have as much as one rose in the garden. 

[ranunculus]

Having worked for years amongst one and a half million roses  almost every day I am proud to announce that I don't have as much as one rose in the garden. 

Hear! hear!   

[Lesley Cox]

Having decided to get rid of every one of the 200 or so roses in this new garden (they are old, badly maintained and diseased, thin growth coming from massive stumps) I'm well on the way to doing just that BUT have bought 8 new ones. What was I thinking of?

[Anthony Darby]

What the hokey cokey in TC's thread, will it be ring a ring a roses here?

[Chuck]

I am in favor of a fruit and veggie forum. It probably will be quite popular

[Alan_b]

Yes, Chuck, I thought myself that a Fruit and Veg. section of the forum might suit, being more specific and on a topic not covered much elsewhere.  I was going to suggest that in response to Maggi but my internet connection started misbehaving.

On the other hand, it does not look as if a Roses section would prove universally popular!

[Maggi Young]

Opening this thread for any questions about growing fruit and vegetables, huge perennials... all that sort of thing......

Above is my first post for this thread.....   

There have been threads on roses in previous years and, for instance, Arykana has posted many photos of her beautiful roses and other perennials- these can be found via the search facility and  we felt that if it were only to be the "odd" thread then a special section was overkill for plants that are not our main focus. If we are proved wrong by masses of vegetable discussions, well, that might change things!