Congratulations on successfully moving it to a pot during summer! Being that it's going to be growing in hot dry Texas I think I'd try for a little afternoon shade since you won't be there to water it that often. Roses will take full sun if they get plenty of water, but will do well and bloom on 4 to 6 hours of sun especially if the shade is bright or dappled. Also I'd wait until fall to transplant it to its new location so it will have all winter to grow roots to be able to take every two week or so watering. Hopefully we'll have some rain to help it along this coming winter and spring. Wishing you the best!

The Japanese hige type varieties aren't quite as aggressive as the old fashioned singles. A few are pretty prolific with seed but most aren't. There's also the blue Clitoria vine. It also comes in a double flower. I grow the single blue up and across my veggie garden gate every spring. I leave it loose at the bottom of the vine so I can open and close the gate lol. I would recommend Blue Sky Vine but mine goes a little nuts here lol.

Here are mini flags in the front bed with the coleus. The 4th of July parade I normally do with the Mustang club was canceled, no surprise, so that’s a little sad. I really look forward to it every year. We are done super early by 10:30. DH is grilling now before it gets to the predicted high of 94. I did 8:30 Zumba step aerobics on the deck, and it was pretty hot already. We have an industrial fan we can use on the deck. It also helps keep the mosquitoes away.

I think I would be more excited to try growing them all on, Kim, if the seedlings' flowers weren't all single, white spittin' images of SGMC -- now, a nice pink one, like your Miss Lowe cross that you gave to Jeri, that would be something... On the other hand, my vigorous SGMC seedling is interesting (but for the hopefully transient PM) because, despite the shrub itself being very, very similar to SGMC (leaves, prickles, overall structure) and the flowers single and white, the truss is much larger than SGMC's (it's only had one so far, but 50 flowers -- remains to be seen if it repeats!) while the flowers themselves are just a little smaller than those of SGMC and have that pale yellow/ivory tinge in the center, the SGMC scent, and nice stamens. What most amazes me is that I only found it late last year when I removed a group of Salvia clevelandii it was growing among to plant something else, so it got to a good size with extremely little dry season irrigation and entirely on its own -- a real survivor. Handy for droughts and such. It gets a little water once a week now and it's like it's on steroids. Never fertilized. Rosa minutifolia is in the same bed and they seem to tolerate the same conditions. The adjective that most often came to mind as I observed and worked through the helicopter landing pad vegetation was "lilliputian" -- a complete landscape but existing at an entirely different scale than the world outside it, like in Gulliver's Travels -- a bit weird. There would be potential there, too, for model train and fairy house native landscaping ;-).