Judith, that sounds like a good plan to me. Actually, my JJ remains in a pot "banished" to my back patio, which receives only about a half-day of dappled sun. Your chosen location sounds a little better, as I don't think I have quite enough sun for ideal growth. I said I'm getting rid of mine, but I have a hard time shovel pruning bushes that don't die on their own. Still, I hate to give a plant to someone when I don't think it will actually do well for them; it's kinda like negative advertising for rose growing. To it's credit, I totally ignore it except for occasional watering, and it is still trucking along. I have had mine only about 3 years. Maybe I should follow the advice above and wait for another year or even 2 to make a final judgment. Meanwhile, Prairie Sunrise is doing beautifully in JJ's old spot. I just got it from Lisa at Countryside last summer, along with Alec's Red. THANKS LISA! Both are gorgeous AND very fragrant! They also are about average for blackspot resistence, which in my area means I have to be diligent with the preventive spraying. No big deal, since I spray everything else anyway.

I'll check them out. Have quite a few Vintage moss babies from this year & am anxious to see them mature over the next couple of years. Dragged Mouseaux du Japon (from Ralph!) up from my old humid zone. It is so happy in this drier climate. Thrown a lot of new canes, bloomed heavier than ever & has good foliage & those "fuzzy caterpillar" canes covered with moss. The bands bloomed well. I let them throw at least one bloom to assure correct plant has been received--then I disbud. Also have Dresden Doll, Rene D'Anjou (a favorite) Mel Hulse, Crested Moss, a few others. Not so many moderns. Used to have a bunch of Ralph Moore's but lost a lot of plants in a dang hurricane. I love to pet the mosses--just love the scent.

Daseyduckworth, Have you seen the new post above shouting?? If you read through my many THOUSANDS of posts here in herbs, gardeningm fruit trees, alliums, and in the now very active Harvest forum, you will soon realize that frustratiion and continual repetion can get to anyone, no matter what they are on to help calm them down. Today, from 11am until now, I have been just here, and the Harvest forum, emptying my poor overtaxed 63 year old brain over and over again. Thats still a whole day, that I don't feel as totally wasted effort or negative input. But if you feel that I am way too angry and wish to chastize me, go right ahead. I made mention to the term 'Spoon Fed' recently, which was never originally stated by me, but was a quote from me to another person under teh am context. Another recent poster had made that remark in my defense that a big trend towards continual, and almost daily repeated questions seem to be coming here. We all get hot under the coller and some more than others. If we were kids in school trying to learn by jusy sitting there waiting for us to be told what to do, do you think the teachers would want to pull a single student aside and try and cram more knowledge into a single brain. Not today, its just too much for the lowly teacher, unless they have the time, energy, and prolonged patience. I have nearly none left at times, and with definate renal failure ever closer, and no other medical direction to turn for help, I find that sometimes people DO want to be spoon fed and simply do not know to do a few seconds of simple research. US health care here is Medicare, and inappropriatly named that, as it should be called MEDIKILL. Insurance companies now control the doctors, and dictate what we are allowed to take as treatments, as opposed to our trust in a doctors knowledge and decisions. 22 medications per day, and triple the amounts of insulin are in my future now. The insurance company said I can't have more, the doctors say yes I need more. Who wins? Its surely not me... Another typical example of person asking for an item they have not been able to find and source to buy from in Canada.. I posted a direct link to a company that sells that same exact item in small bulk sizes, but at a little higher cost of a tiny little box. I dont make the prices and shipping/tax, the sellers do. I get back a very negative overtone reply about its just too expensive to buy a tiny little amount to be used in home canning, and have to pay extra for S&H...! If your doing ONE SINGLE home canning project, then YES, but if your planning on doing a LOT, and for YEARS, and NEED this very necessary item, and you dispute and shoot down the original, thoughtful,and helpful person who is just TRYING THEIR BEST to help others. My 'terse' reply to that was, you can buy it anywhere you like at any price only you want to pay, I only offered a SUGGESTION.. A SUGGESTION of a source in MY USA, where they sell it in a little larger bulk amount at a LOT cheaper overall cost but you still pay a bit more for it Canada. That same, (now a complainer) has been lamenting about not finding it anywhere, and has been shot down by every single place they look at. I do LOTS of stuff in a big way. If I need supplies that are not perishable, I buy a LOT, because I use a lot, I hate to run out. Frugality only goes so far, and if an herb or seed needs to be located, I try to provide MY favorite SUGGESTION, again, SUGGESTION about where to find something. The word SEARCH is VERY powerful now with a World Wide Computer linked network. 20 years ago, you had to resort to phones, letters, and phone books, or word of mouth, begging, and futility. Say I wanted a big amount of Angel food cake mix for making them anytime, and one that has no sugar added, I would do a SEARCH first, before asking a very broad based and quite common question on a forum that has many many mismatched people, subjects, and virtually, no way to combine informaton that can be put in a few simple words. A tiny little bit of xtra effort by the questioner, saves a lot of extra energy for others, if most of the info is already published publicly, and is easily found even here, even with a terrible Search feature that pulls up way too much for a quick reading. I think that about 85% of the people who use computers to find information don't really know how or where to search for ANYTHING. Every single web browser today offers very powerful search tools. One recent situation I needed a specially made specific electronic component recently (among my MANY hobbies and other interests). Went on the internet and spent two days with hundreds of possible sources, with no luck. I simply did a tiny bit more digging only to find that part is obsolete and now renumbered/renamed. I still needed it, but now, its only available and sold in England, not here. I paid extra, nearly TWICE the cost of each component, just to get 4 of these little parts, averaging price of .79 cents for 10,000 quantity, or $12.00 EACH for 1-10 pieces. Do the math, and obvously a 10,000 pc. quantity is way too many for my needs, but I must bite the bullet and pay dearly at a much higher, inflated cost for only what need. A final 'and not so winded' note, an 'herb forum', is a place to find herb info, but just asking a simple repeated question is going to get to a few people if the members here read the same thing over and over every day.. Doesn't ever use anyone use a scroll button or a mouse, or even know what they do? Oddly, I found me feet here in about 5 minutes of speed reading a few hundred posts!

patches Hi, I do not grow roses on a balcony but I do grow the majority of my roses in containers, but there is really no difference. You need to remember roses need sun but since you already do gardening on your balcony, you must already get great sun. Growing roses is really not hard. The main thing to remember is to pick the right roses for your zone. For the roses to really have room to grow you should use pretty good size and deep containers. There have been posts on the regular and antique rose forum from people who do grow on balconies so you may want to search there for more information. Good Luck