How many roses?

8 years ago

I know u all r gr8 gardeners and expert rose growers!! Please tell me how many rose plants u all have and send pictures of ur rose gardens !! I am a new rose grower and its a curiosity question!!! Thanks

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Sara-Ann Z6B OK

8 years ago

I have about 85 roses either in large pots or in the ground. Counting the ones in small pots I have over 100. Right now I have mostly hybrid teas with a few floribundas, climbers and old garden roses , and just started growing a few Austin's.

My main front bed. Varieties that are blooming are Bewitched , Pink Peace, and Tiffany.

This is my south bed. Visible varieties are Love Song, Peace, The McCartney Rose, Belinda's Dream, Sunsprite, Liebeszauber and a glimpse of Zephirine Drouhin in the background.

Julia Child

Dublin Bay, a climber

A close up of Liebeszauber

Aloha, another climber

Paradise, new to me this year.

Tiffany bush

Sunsprite, a yellow floribundas

Mme Isaac Pereire, a Bourbon, Old Garden Rose

Tried to include a good representation of the roses I have.

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User
8 years ago
..I have about 50 roses, a figure that's likely to go down rather than up...

...I'm afraid I'm neither a great gardener... {I muddle through]...and certainly not an expert, I just buy roses I fancy, plonk them in and see how they get on... bits of t.l.c. here and there...

...here's one for today... 'St Swithun'...it has a strange scent, of honey...
R pnwz8a
Original Author
8 years ago
Marlorena it's beautiful!!! Keep up the ️Gud work!! And don't let the number go down please!!!
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I have about 80 or so, not all are planted in the ground though. I admit I do have a good sized pot ghetto going on. The real winners there will earn a coveted (and limited) space in my beds. I'd love to plant them all, if only I could figure out where to put them!
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My Roses

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rosecanadian
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I have 52 roses in pots that I overwinter in the garage. Poor husband brings them out to the garage in the fall and out to the back in the spring.

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jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
8 years ago
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I only have 12 rose bushes at the present time rabains...
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seil zone 6b MI
8 years ago
I'm at 99. That number has been as low as 16 and as high as 180. I lost a lot over the last 2 winters and decided not to replace them all. I can't take care of as many as I used to.
view1ny NY 6-7
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Sara-ann, your roses are beautiful! I especially love the front bed as pink roses are my absolute faves. They all look so healthy and well cared for.
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
8 years ago
Beautiful roses, Marlorena and Sara-Ann. Marlorena, I've seen nothing but the most gorgeous pictures of your garden, with a multitude of blooms. I would say you're a wonderful gardener. I have about 50 roses, almost none in bloom right now. At one time I had around 95, but that's no longer doable, and I'm happy with 50 or even less.
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Brittie - La Porte, TX 9a
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200 varieties for me (or a little over now, because I have some doubles).
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Ingrid...that's very kind, thank you... I do hope your garden returns to a plus 50.. should the rains return, you always have so many unusual varieties for us all to enjoy...

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R pnwz8a
Original Author
8 years ago
Sara Ann ur collection is gorgeous!!!
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countrygirlsc, Upstate SC
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According to my lists, I have had up to 145, but lost many over the last several years. Thanks to the Breck's and Roses Unlimited sale, I am back up to about 75 - 80. Unfortunately I don't have any photos of my gardens this year as changed my focus to large containers a few years ago. Most of my original roses are small and not blooming yet. The Breck's roses are covered with buds.
dublinbay z6 (KS)
8 years ago
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I'm around 60 roses now--down from the 67 I used to have. Since my gardens are getting to be a bit too much work for me in my retirement, I'm letting the number of roses slowly decline due to winter damage and such.

I still have more in my garden then I can comfortably handle, however.

Mine are divided roughly between 1/4 hybrid teas, 1/4 Austin shrubs, 1/4 Old Garden Roses, and 1/4 floribundas/modern shrubs.

I should have noted that I also have lots of perennials, bulbs, non-rose shrubs, etc., in my gardens also.

Kate
R pnwz8a
Original Author
8 years ago
Kate ur garden is very very gorgeous!! Being in a newer house with small backyards.. I can only dream of such rose gardens!
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bethnorcal9
8 years ago
Here we go again.... HMF says I have 1747, but there are a lot they don't list on there, and I have duplicates on some and several unknowns. So, I'm guessing it's closer to maybe 1780. Waaaay too many. It's getting where I can't take care of them all. I have so little spare time, and the body ain't cooperating these days, so it's not easy to weed and deadhead and do all the cleanups I need to do. The roses are suffering and not repeating as well as they should. I've also lost quite a few to water missing them, by way of weeds, underplantings, and pine needles wicking it away from them.... or being choked out by the weeds and overgrown irises. I take pictures daily, but get frustrated when I see all the ugly crap in the background that needs dealt with. I just sorta call them my "beauties amongst the ruins!"

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BERYL BACH - a virtual monster and bloom machine

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RHAPSODY IN BLUE - the purest of purples

STORMY WEATHER CL - love the array of pinks and purples it comes up with

STRANGER - love the coloring... and it's a stripey! (my other favorite class of roses)

VENDEE IMPERIALE - a truly unusual rose
toolbelt68
8 years ago
rabains, have you considered going 'up' with your roses? Just build a pergola and plant a row of climbers along each side, even at the ends. Once it is covered with roses it would not only give you a 'room' to sit in but be beautiful from every direction. Even looking down from a second story window.... That should fit about any small sized backyard. Hint, don't build one you have to paint.....
R pnwz8a
Original Author
8 years ago
Wow!! Toolbelt gr8 idea!! I m in a kind of learning process for roses and definitely will do something to add. What's the best season to plant more? Can I do it in fall if I get some Ina nursery??its too hot right now!!
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jjpeace (zone 5b Canada)
8 years ago
I think I will be heading in the 40's milestone soon!
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BethC in 8a Forney, TX
8 years ago
Oh dear, is it really confession time? I have a total of 112. I'll probably add a few this fall when it cools down enough to plant again. Of course of those 112 fifteen of them are in 1 gallon pots that I started from cuttings this spring.
jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
8 years ago
bethnorcal9, 1780 roses...Wow! Very nice pics you posted!
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R pnwz8a
Original Author
8 years ago
1780 roses.. How do u c them all and u have count wow!!!
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toolbelt68
8 years ago
I'd worry about the nick pick things first, then using them design the pergola. By nick picks I mean things like entry/exit points, water pipes, other plants, fences, how will you attach the roses to the posts, should I use lattes between the posts, etc., all of the things that seem to crop up just when you say 'finished'...... oops forgot about that.
Taking into account the mature sizes of the climbers at their base -- my Zeffys take up very little space at ground level -- and maybe plan on planting 3 or 4 around each post. If you used 6 posts that would give you 18 to 24 roses to take care of. Now the top of that pergola is going to be very busy with blooms so select your plants carefully..... lol
Since I don't know anything about growing them I'll leave the when to plant up to the other folks on this forum. Just build it and they will come.
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Ken (N.E.GA.mts) 7a/b
8 years ago
Right now I have about 85. 1/3 HT's, 1/3 mini/minifloras, 1/3 OGR's and Shrubs. When everything is finished next spring it should be around 100, give or take a couple.
Katie
8 years ago
We have 74. A few climbers, HT's, floribundas, and minis.
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nippstress - zone 5 Nebraska
8 years ago
Well, I'm still a long way from Beth in N Ca standards, but my recent count after the yearly "death march" (to finally decide and pull tags from what didn't survive the winter) brings me to 938, if you count the minis. There is an occasionally circulating thread that jokes about counting roses so they aren't really so many, and not counting minis is one of those tips. Once I get past pruning and planting season, they aren't really that much work, since I don't spray and I simply deadhead and water a little from now to frost.

I've shown a lot of photos from my best years, so here are a few shots of an average rose year that this is turning out to be.

My "east side survivors" - roses in the zone 4 pocket of my house that can handle more extreme temperatures - starring Alexander MacKenzie (pardon the deadheads still hanging in)

Edgar Degas and some friends in the background

Felix LeClerc with some non-rose friends

Garden Delight - one of my new favorite roses

Lunar Mist blooming its little heart out as always

And Sunrise Sunset eating a trellis that got in her way...

Cynthia
vasue VA
8 years ago
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Just counting these the other day, around about 53 in this perennial garden that includes roses. The majority of these are climbers or climber/shrubs (28), some as pairs. Shrub roses (10) & shrub habit Floribundas (11) add another 21. Hybrid Teas number only 3 - Abbaye de Cluny, Fragrant Cloud & a new-this-year Kordes' Savannah. There's also a NOID (no identification) rose long planted that was incorrectly tagged from the nursery that may fall into any of the former categories. Keep in mind this count was done during an imaginary tour rather than by actual head count, discounted some iffy roses (unsure survival) & is likely inaccurate. Many more were attempted over the years. In this no spray garden, health & tolerance of freeze-thaw cycles (typical in Winter & early Spring) prove essential to beauty, bloom & fragrance.
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