Well I had to change my rental location last year, and ended up basically taking all of my potted roses and planting them in my Mother's yard....her home has rather lackluster landscaping and almost no color after spring when the phlox and tulips are done, so I felt good adding the roses. This will be the first year the roses will be weathers over for the most part. I'm planting more here in the future. It's definitely a work in progress, but the side of the house where the "rose garden" will be looks a lot better than it ever has before. It was a major PITA to get it prepped as it was almost nothing but stone and boulders under old plastic mulch bags...I was worried the ground would be too poor for the roses to even survive, but it appears they have and are doing well so far.
Here is the Charles Darwin in a pot...went through the winter in the garage quite well...planted as a potted rose last summer....it should explode in blooms in the coming weeks.
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Some roses she purchased probably from a bargain store...she wants them to climb the deck, but I doubt they do...they aren't quite vigorous enough so I am planting "Spirit of Freedom" in between them.
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Side of the garage....still needs a border....but it's a red/white combo of 4 William Shakespeare 2000s and 2 Winchester Cathedrals where the trellis's are. The white doesn't exactly stand out with a white background so clematis is going up the trellis to cure that.
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You can't really see it, but a new Just Joey and Medallion just went in along the side of the house and she has a random rose by the shepherd's hook with purple clematis.
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Just Joey $2 rose from Menards....doing well so far.
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Medallion is also starting to leaf out
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I can tell she didn't really do much here besides dig up the lawn and plant stuff because all of the grass is going up in the area haha. It's getting all dug up. She has 2 rainbow colored roses in there.
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Europeana leafing out.....kind of shaded by the burning bush at the moment.
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Double Delight fighting to keep up with the infestation of Columbine.
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A red rose I transplanted from the north wall...no clue what it is....probably Oklahoma or something along those lines.
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Pascali
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Peace
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My Graham Thomas I planted in the ground in Columbus...surprised it survived winter in it's chopped up state, but it's thriving now. I need to make some lattice for it to go up. Dublin Bay is going to be planted next to it.
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Most red and white along the front until I get perennials in. From left to right, Europeana left of burning bush, Double Delight behind duck, red rose on left side of window, Pascali right of window, Peace to the left of Graham Thomas.
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My old potted Bishop's Castle....seems to be enjoying it's new found ground....own root Graham Thomas cutting behind it in the ground.
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This little Graham Thomas cutting was planted last October and survived the winter no problem...all I did was mound some mulch over it.
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The porch will be covered in a mix of Graham Thomas, Dublin Bay, and clematis. I built the obelisk last year and Abraham Darby is inside it....Abe has never really been as large as he has been claimed to be, but maybe that will change this year. The space between the tulips and obelisk was cleared out...more roses going in...not sure which yet.
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Abe in his cage.
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The "rose garden"....this side of the house has been absolutely devoid of life for almost 20 years...it was nothing but stone and NOTHING was in it until I planted these roses last fall, so it's nice to see it have something for once.
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Mirandy survived the winter...not an antique/English rose, but the fragrance is just absolutely to die for so I took a cutting of it.
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Haha the other Double Delight....I can't believe this TINY little thing survived the winter. It's been rooted now for almost a year, but it just won't take off. I get the feeling it will shortly though as it's starting to put out some new growth.
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This rose was already here last year before I started...completely defoliated and looked awful and almost dead...nowhere near the case this year with a little TLC and fertilization. No clue what it is, so I'm excited to see the blooms...it's not her typical rainbowish rose though because it has different growth....looks like it has potential.
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Paul Neyron cutting in the foreground, Sharifa Asma in the background.
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Baron Girod De L'Ain
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Golden Celebration came out of the pot and into the ground....it is coming out very nicely. I'm interested to see how well it does in this spot as it will get almost all day sun and ground to grow.
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Evelyn got chopped back to about 12" all around and is rewarding me with new canes and more mannerly growth as of now.
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My lone surviving Pat Austin hanging on by a thread. 4 of the others died...1 due to winter, the other 3 just died completely randomly this spring after they put out nice new spring growth then just died for no real apparent reason.
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I wanted to plant roses here, but she must of found motivation to do some landscaping of her own. She moved the Pat Austin to the center of the bed and then put 2 "smaller" hot pink mini roses on the ends...not sure if they will live or work out there, but I've never seen life in this "container", so it's almost shocking to even see. I had to dig out the soil last fall and put in 29 bags of fresh soil.
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The stone on the right side of the walkway was all that "garden" was last year before I started. Crown Princess Margareta is most likely going up there to grow along the side of the house.
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Still going to plant some more roses...not sure what and where yet though....brainstorming. The "boulders" on the edge of the garden are what I dug up last fall just planting the roses.
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I'm excited to see the before and after on this side of the house....life has been devoid over here even since I was a kid living at this house...that's about to change in a month or so.
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Life is a little colorful around the house. This is as yellow as yellow can be.
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Only about 3 more weeks or so....many of the roses have these....this is Charles Darwin teasing what the future brings.
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