The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Gardens => Topic started by: egbert on June 16, 2010, 04:55:43 pm
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My garden was neglected for a good 15 years or so before I started work on it with only minimal maintenance to cut grass. So I have been working all spring to try to clear it out - bearing in mind it is an acre with our house in the centre. I have been cutting back bushes that are taller than the house, trimming back weeds, re-edging drives and borders . . .
Anyway, in front of the house there is a half circle bed, about 6ft deep and 9 m in diameter, that was planted with rosa rugosa as a 'ground cover' to keep weeds away since there was no one to maintain it. When I moved in this was probably about 1 m high dense thicket full of brambles and nettles and these nasty thorny roses :-[
I paid 2 men to clear it for me and remove 75% of the roses - it took them about 4 days last year - then I cut all the roses that were left down to the ground. Well they started growing again early this year, and now I have practically a while bed of them again - blooming suckers everywhere, and they are bushing out and taking over all the new plants I put around them.
Does anyone have experience of these blasted plants - is it possible to contain them or am I better off just digging them all out?
I really do hate them >:(
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Dig them out - it's the only way. They are invasive. I hate them too, in fact I hate all roses particularly those with thorns. >:(
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but they'll make lovely rosehip syrup and wine later on in the year!