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Advice for Beginner Who Just Bought 19 Roses!!

13 years ago

Hello Everyone,

Hoping for some help here. This is the first time I've ever posted. We just bought our house late last summer so this year I wanted to fill our garden with roses. I have had 4 hybrid teas for a number of years. However I love the antique/old roses. I just ordered 19 roses!! They will be delivered the last week of April. They are all bare root roses.

I need to put most of them in my back yard which has all day sun (south facing).

I also need to have some climb the east wall of my garage (east facing). For this I'm thinking the 2 Joseph's Coat and 2 Don Juan. The wall is about 10ft. Will it be too crowded with 4 roses?

Next is my front yard (north facing) I have a bay window which I would like to have the 2 Golden Celebration climb around. That wall does get about 4 hours of late afternoon sun.

I also have some walls in the back yard where I could have some roses climb and will be building some obelisks this weekend.

Does anyone have any experience with these roses and suggestions for placement (i.e. against a wall, obelisk, needs full sun etc.)as well as some idea of how much I can expect them to grow the first year and how much space I will need long term for each.

Sorry for being long winded but I need help!! I would be most grateful for any comments.

Graham Thomas

L.D. Braithwaite

Winchester Cathedral

The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild

Golden Celebration

Brother Cadfael

Fair Bianca

Tess of the dâÂÂUrbervilles

Geoff Hamilton

Abraham Darby

The Prince

Spirit of Freedom

Teasing Georgia

JosephâÂÂs Coat x 2

Golden Showers x 2

Don Juan x 2

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