What an exciting time for you! I know I'd be so caught up in arranging and re-arranging things in my head and on paper. Are you going to have companion plants? I'd love to know the names of at least some of the roses you're considering putting there. They're probably going to grow incredibly fast once they're in the ground and can spread their roots. It would be lovely to have pictures of your project as it progresses.

I hope your foot heals soon.

Ingrid

I purchased a sizable number of roses from Ashdown this year. I love them all, and I received excellent roses, as well as excellent customer service from them. Definitely one of the best nurseries around.

Sandy

I agree about Ashdown and I hope your foot heals soon. Please wait until it is fully healed ----

Florence

Here's what's in pots for the expanded bed
NEW THIS YEAR, not all here yet:
Pink Grootendurst
Baronne Prevost
Rene d'Anjou
Siren's Keep
Treasure Trail
Silver Shadows
Quietness
Walferdange
Nelson's Pride
Floral Fairy Tale
Papi Delbard
Sombreuil (I know this isn't a zone 5 rose, but I will be able to protect it, it will go against the southfacing trellis under the deck)

SEVERAL YEARS' IN THE BIG POTS, WINTER TRENCH SURVIVORS:
Abraham Darby
Allegra (not recurrent, but it's my older daughter's name, and her favorite color)
Cinderella
Fantin La Tour (not sure about this one - not recurrent, and it never blossomed last year, got very leggy. We'll see)
Bremer Stadtmusikanten
Kazanlik (I wanted it for the fragrance - to collect for drying, but not sure about growth habit - very rangy canes. Could it be in the back, tied to a twig tepee frame?)
Sharifa Asma
Ebb Tide (the florabunda mauve one)
Friends Porever

ALSO - Survivors from my late 80's purchases from Wayside, grafted: two giant Therese Bugnet in huge pots that I can barely move. One is the original, complete with graft rootstock, the other was an early off shoot since I buried the graft so deeply. Those may go close to my back entrance, at the top of the garden, so that I can enjoy the red canes in the winter.

Whew! And that isn't counting the existing roses in the ground.....

Sunnyside

Sunnyside. It sounds as though you have an awful lot of work ahead of you, but so exciting to be planning and planting a new garden.
Do make sure, your foot is healed completely, before you start, won't you.
Daisy

You must get Clair Matin from Ashdown. If not, it just will not be a complete order. I love getting roses and love talking with Trish. She is a prize, isn't she? Paul is so smart and Trish is smart, but moreover, very nice.

NO MORE!! at least for now...
Last night the young woman who, with her husband, have a landscaping design/maintenance business came over to stare at the slope, and talk about the grand plan. I am on her schedule for the first two weeks in June. She thinks at least one terraced level, her husband does the stone work. There is already a curved stone retaining wall at the base of the slope on the other side of the granite slab walkway - she suggested snaking an echoing curve into the new garden. They are going to remove the sod (stacking it by barn, for me to use as needed in the hen yard), and then all the rocks that we know are there (this is NH the Granite State, after all). Then they will build the terrace or maybe two, bringing in good soil as needed. Then a layer of compost, and finally a layer of mulch. I will have my "blank canvas", and can spend late June and July getting my pot babies into their new homes.

I have resisted "going digital" (bought one in 03 or 04, wound up giving it to my daughter because it was so intimidating) - but I think this project is the one that will push me to getting a camera, so I can record the process. I am thinking of going for a FisherPrice type kids camera - seriously. I am such a technofeeb, and also have trouble with tiny buttons/controls.
I am open to recommendations, however....