My garden is on HMF. I mostly post garden photos.
It is listed as Red Rose Ridge.

Hi Susan: My garden with roses' pictures is Chicago IL 5a. I'll post pictures with perennials borders (snapdragons), and companions plants in the "Member Garden" tab inside my user name "Chicago IL 5a".

Someone wrote to me in HMF about wishing that member garden list the type of soil (sandy, loamy, or clay), and pH (alkaline, neutral, or acidic), plus annual rainfall .... that way she knows which rose is appropriate for her region. I also wish the same.

BUMP

My garden is listed on HMF as Hundred Roses but I only have one picture posted. It does, however, show roses growing with other plants.

Just FYI, I have alkaline sandy clay soil, a Mediterranean climate with 15 inches of rain a year (ranging 7"-22"), and only light occasional frost.

Rosefolly

Thank you, Rosefolly, for the info. I wish others do the same. Roses with Rugosa heritage do better in sandy soil (Krista informed me that Rugosa is known as "beach" rose). Roses with zillion of petals like Sonia Rykiel or Charles Darwin do better with high rainfall and loamy to clay soil, which retains moisture.

Roses with multiflora parentage do better in neutral to acidic soil, but turns yellowish (chlorotic) in alkaline soil. As to rootstocks, Dr. Huey is better for alkaline clay soil, Multiflora is better for acidic soil, and own-root do best in loamy soil (fluffy and moist). I have heavy clay, so I pot up all the bands & gallons bought in pots to let their rootball grow big, before I can put them in my alkaline clay.

It help a lot if HMF members can list the type of soil (sandy, loamy, or clay), and alkalinity (acidic, neutral, alkaline), plus average rainfall or snow. Dave and Deb Garden in Montana set a good example of listing the type of rootstock (Dr. Huey), and how they take care of their roses.

Here's a link to Dave and Deb Boyd's garden in HMF, which they listed useful info. as to what type of roses best suited to their climate/soil, lots of pics. of companion plants (alyssum, clemantis, etc.)

Here is a link that might be useful: Dave and Deb Boyd HMF garden

I checked Mendocino_rose (Pamela Temple)'s garden. It's like paradise, heavenly loaded with blooms. I post the below link to her garden so others can enjoy the view.

Here is a link that might be useful: Red Rose Ridge garden (Mendocino_rose)

Thanks Strawberry! That garden is beautiful--but the roses aren't named...sadness! But it does give great ideas. Thank you for sharing.
Susan

I have to admit that I post mostly individual blooms or bushes. I do LOVE when people post their incredible garden shots, even if it makes me terrifically jealous. :)

There were a couple of threads last year on garden listings on hmf. Here's a link to a thread I liked. Some beautiful gardens listed there. Susan, I hope you will list your garden there also, if you haven't already.

Ya'll don't forget to subscribe as a paying member too. If we rose addicts don't support it I don't know who else will.

Here is a link that might be useful: hmf old thread

Hi Gean: I agree with you 100% on annual support of HMF. By being a paying-member, I can do advanced search to find roses that won't die in zone 5a winter, plus checking of its parents & descendants before I waste my time pollinating roses. I checked on your garden, Gean, beautiful - I love your companion plants and polyanthas ...

Hi Susan: I uploaded some pics of my garden with companion plants. Below is the link to my garden:

Here is a link that might be useful: Alkaline clay zone 5a garden in HMF

Strawberry, I went to find the photos of your garden and the link just went to the search page.

I enjoyed looking at everyones gardens this morning. Ours is a work in progress, most has been documented by a blog, one I did not update for a year...lol I usually just upload a cell shot to facebook as I work on things there, guess I need to sort through those.

Try again, Kippy. I click on Gean's link the first 2 times did not work, but now Gean's link is working. My link is working too.

No idea what I am doing wrong Strawberry, would love to see your photos, the other ones work. Yours just sends me to what would be MY page if I did one.

What is your name on it and I can search instead.

Thanks everyone for sharing. Gean, thank you for the link and all the other vital information you share, very graciously.
I am excited about seeing everyone's gardens. Gean, here is a link to my garden "pre rose". I'm doing a total overhaul of the garden this winter/spring.
http://s1242.beta.photobucket.com/user/poorbutroserich/library/#/user/poorbutroserich/library/?&_suid=135225513499104910813364508322
Susan

Sorry for the link. GW kept telling me it was a "security risk" or "contained profanity".
But it works if you cut and paste!
Susan

Very neat Susan!

I enjoyed looking, Susan. It will be looking like your "inspiration garden" before you know it. So much fun!

ps, thank you, Strawberry.

Hi Kippy: thanks for the notification. HMF administrator Lyn did the same as I, and Seil said, "I'm very flattered that the link went to my garden." HMF does that when I include the link to my account, this time I'll include the link to "member garden" instead, let's see if that works:

Here is a link that might be useful: Member Garden instead of

Thanks Strawberry!! I had tried a search for 5a Il, but guess I should have tried Il 5a

Thanks Kippy. I was laughing at Gardenweb flagging "poorbut" as profanity in "poorbutroserich" ... It flagged me as profane one time when I made a joke.

here's the link

Here is a link that might be useful: Susan's garden

I don't know if many of you remember rgr.roses, which was an un-moderated rose forum in the early days of the Internet. It was taken down by trolls. I don't think of myself as naive, but I have never seen such evil as I saw on rgr. Our spats on this forum don't even come close to what the trolls put up there. One user actually fought back and ended up abandoning in the Internet completely, our loss, because the trolls threatened his life and lives of his family.

Over the years, the trolls have tried to take down many rose sites. I often wonder why because we don't share sensitive information and have nothing to hide.

HMF is targeted daily. The site has almost become a challenge to the dang hackers.

Thank God, the Admin team is able to create a very secure site. Yes, it will cause some inconveniences for the rest of us, but even the most sophisticated hacker has not been able to breach the security on the site and the less sophisticated usually find they cannot achieve their goals of stealing content or posting inappropriate material.

So.... sorry for the inconveniences you may experience, but I'd rather deal with those than the trolls.

Smiles,
Lyn

Thanks for the compliments and encouragement. And thanks Gean for fixing the link.
I can't wait to watch it progress.
Susan

Thanks Gean, I clicked on the link to Susan's garden, and enjoy it very much. I like Susan's Over-the-Moon, Sheila's perfume, Rhapsody in Blue, and a dark red rose which I don't know.

Susan, your roses have great colors ... I wonder what potting soil do you use? Thanks.

Lyn,
Thanks for the reminder of how good we have it, and what strong walls of protection are needed for our safety and happiness.

Stawberry,
That rose is "Ink Spots". It is a GREAT rose. Blooms continuously, loooong vase life--no fragrance tho--that's likely why it's not so popular. It's beautiful for contrast because I gravitate to the paler shades.
Over the Moon is another amazing bloomer and so pretty in all stages.
These are bushy full plants and really pretty.
I'm still not sure how I came to be rose crazy! It was a very sudden onset--but I'm glad I am.
I'm looking forward to getting these roses out of the ghetto and into the ground!
Thanks for the kind words about my garden.
Susan

Strawberry, I just use the Miracle Grow Moisture Control adding bonemeal and compost.
Susan

Thanks for the info., Susan. One time I dumped bonemeal on my geraniums - they got the deepest color, absolutely gorgeous, except I did so in hot summer and burnt all my geraniums. A tiny bit of bonemeal (not a wab like I did) ... can really deepen the color. Bonemeal is high in phosphorus. I'll put a bit in my pots next year so I'll get brilliant colors like yours.

Unfortunately my soil pH is 7.7, too high for bonemeal. University of Colorado Extension stated that bonemeal can't be used at pH above 7 ... best for slightly acidic potting soil like Miracle Grow Moisture Control... which I'll use next year for my incoming 10+ bands.

The rose park nearby uses high phosphorus fertilizer (granules) but it doesn't have any deepening effect on their Austins due to high pH (alkaline) soil here. Phosphorus in chemical gets bound up to either calcium or magnesium in clay soil, if the pH is above neutral.

There are a few Australian agriculture papers on increasing wheat yield via liquid, or soluble phosphorus. I'll try that next year on my pink daffodils - it's NOT pink here, it's blah beige in my alkaline soil. I saw them vivid and brilliant pink in my last house, with acidic soil.

Susan, I hope you'll post your pics. in HMF. One doesn't need to be a member to post pics. I no longer use Photobucket since it's a pain to load pics in there. Loading pics in HMF is super easy, plus one can put comments next to the pictures.

Roseseek (Kim Rupert) kept telling me to list the roses grown in my garden in HMF. I postponed, until now, it took exactly 10 minutes to click on the names of roses grown ... I have less than 50 roses.

While you can add your garden listing one at a time as Strawberryhill indicates, it's easy (and significantly faster) to do it from an Excel or Word list. There are instructions on the site to help you accomplish it. For a longer list, it is much simpler and tremendously quicker. Kim

Hi Kim: When I did it through selection, I didn't have to type, I just press "enter" key repeatedly ... and put in 42 roses in a zap. It's fast either way.

One doesn't have to be a paying-member to post pics, or to show-case one's garden. The comments that Seil put in next to each picture she posted in HMF helped me tremendously ... as to which rose would be hardy, or which one is stingy-bloomer on own-root.

Hi Susan: I'm glad I looked at the brilliant colors of your roses in PhotoBucket. You solved the problem of my "blah beige" daffodils (were deep pink in my last acidic house). The pH of rain water is 5 to 5.7, quite acidic, so if I give my daffodils bone meal now in late fall, the spring rain will release the phosphorus in the bone meal to give my daffodils the deep colors like the catalog.

I have hundreds of daffodils that I collected over the past 2 decades with many colors: inner red, inner orange, pink in many shapes ... plus the various yellow daffodils.

A friend wrote to me that she gave her hydrangea acid but it didn't turn blue. Phosphorus is needed to turn flowers pink shade, and aluminum sulphate is needed for blue shade, regardless of soil pH. I posted the info. on changing flowers' colors in Ingrid's thread "A rant on the Dark Lady."

Stawberry, I'm glad you have a mind for "chemistry" cause I sure don't. I've just begun growing roses and I'm in the "what colors/forms look nice together" stage.
Posting my garden to HMF is on my list and I will do it soon.
Thanks
Susan