I took some pictures and when I loaded them on the computer I was surprised to see rose leaves!

My Beetle and the neighbors Accord is under there.

But if you look really close, you can see Morden Blush poking up thru the mess! She still has her hips! :) I see bits of her lying down below that portion, but I'm hoping the rest of her pops back up once branches are removed. Hopefully.

Woo-hoo!

No sign of Black Magic, totally buried...
Julia is squashed under the dahlias, under the limb, I think. Can't quite tell...

The yellow mini still has her blooms in the foreground.

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What a beautiful home and garden you have!!! I am sorry for your misfortune. Hopefully the car is insured and the sunlight will remain.
Are the squashed roses own-root?

Thanks, Lucille. I wish it were my house, but it is a rental apartment that I have taken over, pretty much.

The Julia is own root. The minis are but they seem okay.

Black magic is not, but Morden Blush may be, I can't remember, actually.
She has been in the ground 3 years, maybe four. She was bare root but I totally can't remember a graft or not.

I'm not thrilled with the composters, they belong to another person in the apartment and were there before I started digging up the yard. I do my best to mask them but it's pretty hard to hide big composters in a small yard.

The cars I am praying, are going to be okay. Seems like (hopefully) much of the weight of the main branch is being held up by what remains of the Dogwood and the fireplace. Hopefully.

The fireplace was empty space for so long, total shade till this year. Trees were removed and fell, so it became sun space.

I built it into a planter this summer. Talk about hard work! I cut all the wood to fit in the spaces around the existing rock and cement. I did my best and in is pretty tight and has not lost any soil at all. It is pretty rustic, but I built it with wood lying around and spent zero dollars in doing it. Didn't even have to buy screws. Good thing, too, cause the budget for the transformation was Zero dollars! :)

There is enough drainage that it shouldn't freeze and split, hopefully, but I will be covering most of the top in the winter, I think. I planted it w/ passion flowers and various annuals this summer cause it was late in the season, but I would love to put a rose climber in there somehow.

Two days ago, I was considering starting a thread to see if my newly identified Pat Austin rose could live in there. I figure she nods, so being high up like that may be pretty and work for her so we can see her blooms.

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You are quite the capable gardener! The planter is gorgeous. I am always prowling alleys looking for discarded stone like that. Are you in Richmond maybe?
I hope insurance provides for the Beetle.
A huge iron trellis fell on Mr. Lincoln earlier this year and he took it like a man and is thriving.
Your positivity is inspiring.

I hope everything will be OK and your car and roses will survive!

I am very, very impressed with your building abilities. Rather, I should say I'm "jealous". LOL.

I think that in the end, all will be well...if, on New Year's Eve, when we look back and think about what happened this year, the worst that can be put into the "bad" catagory is that a tree fell on some cars, you're doing well. It could have been people under that, or pets...but no, it's just a few cars and some tree branches. And, as Mother Nature is wont to do, now some new cleared areas.

And, as you said, new roses...the wonderful choosing process...the dilemma...the search. Perfect for long winter nights...

I say all this knowing I have a tree that needs to come down in my back yard...and hoping that I can do it before Mother Nature takes matters into her own hands... :)

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