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01-07-2021, 04:22 PM
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Wild roses

They are looking good this year. I pruned them right back a few years ago but they are back with a vengeance now..



While in the garden, here are the plants in the polytunnel looking a bit wild as well. I like it like that though..

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01-07-2021, 04:42 PM
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Wonderful !
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01-07-2021, 05:04 PM
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Wow! Beautiful roses.
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01-07-2021, 06:55 PM
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They are looking good this year. I pruned them right back a few years ago but they are back with a vengeance now..



While in the garden, here are the plants in the polytunnel looking a bit wild as well. I like it like that though..

How did you secure your Plastic Greenhouse Mart around the Base..We lost one like that a couple of years ago in a Storm here..was a violent one..

We have bought a kit one now with plastic panes and for the life we cannot get it to fit together...realise it needs to be perfectly square.

At least with the plastic ones they are user friendly to put up.just interested in the base that needs to be held down securely.
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01-07-2021, 08:21 PM
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How did you secure your Plastic Greenhouse Mart around the Base..We lost one like that a couple of years ago in a Storm here..was a violent one..

We have bought a kit one now with plastic panes and for the life we cannot get it to fit together...realise it needs to be perfectly square.

At least with the plastic ones they are user friendly to put up.just interested in the base that needs to be held down securely.
Instead of digging the plastic into the earth, I pulled it in under the frame and put a row of house bricks on top of it. It had withstood some high winds this way. It also keeps the frame off the earth. I hope that might make it last a bit longer..



What also helps is bracing the sides up a bit with a bamboo cane frame. This stops the sides from billowing out so much..


Something about greenhouses with plastic panes, going by what I see happen over on the allotment when there is a high wind. The panes, being somewhat flexible, can bend and blow out of the frames. They don't break but the owners end up touring the allotment to find the panes and put them back in.

This might only happen because the allotment is a large open space. It might not happen in a garden where there is probably less space for wind gusts to build up.
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01-07-2021, 08:40 PM
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Very pretty roses, Mart.
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01-07-2021, 08:46 PM
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Beautiful roses, Mart
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01-07-2021, 09:20 PM
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They are nice but because they weave in and out of the rest of the greenery, the thorns are always out to get me when I do a bit of trimming up. This was why I cut it right back a few years ago.

Oh well, it looks good so I suppose I'll put up with getting scratched. I tend to let things grow much wilder now than a few years ago anyway. It's said to be good for the environment ..and it's easier for me.
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01-07-2021, 10:17 PM
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Instead of digging the plastic into the earth, I pulled it in under the frame and put a row of house bricks on top of it. It had withstood some high winds this way. It also keeps the frame off the earth. I hope that might make it last a bit longer..



What also helps is bracing the sides up a bit with a bamboo cane frame. This stops the sides from billowing out so much..


Something about greenhouses with plastic panes, going by what I see happen over on the allotment when there is a high wind. The panes, being somewhat flexible, can bend and blow out of the frames. They don't break but the owners end up touring the allotment to find the panes and put them back in.

This might only happen because the allotment is a large open space. It might not happen in a garden where there is probably less space for wind gusts to build up.
That was really interesting and we had some long wood to hold it down but obviously not enough weight.....good advice thanks for that info...
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love the wild roses, maybe i shouldn't be cutting mine back each year
 
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