What does your rose garden look like?
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BethC in 8a Forney, TX
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8 years agoHere's my cottage garden -- the center bed in the backyard. I mix perennials and shrubs and bulbs in with the roses. (Ignore my neighbor's ugly garage--I do, as best I can.)
Here is more of a close-up view of part of that bed. That big green shrub towards the back of the pic is a paniculata hydrangea not yet in bloom. The lower level white plant scattered throughout the garden is hardy garden geranium.
Here is part of the same bed about a month later as the hydrangea shrub is coming into bloom. It will bloom for the last half of summer.
Hope that gives you some ideas.
Kate
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoKublakan, wait until you get some of those fortuniana roses in the ground. They will take off and bloom like you've never seen.
I used to grow all my roses in pots too and one day I decided to try to make a little rose hedge in my side yard. The roses took off and bloomed like none I had ever grown in a pot. I was so pleased with the result that I started clearing out space to put them all in the ground. Now all my fortuniana roses are in a new side yard garden I made last spring. But all my doc Huey ones are still in pots. Those just dont do well in the ground here. Except for my Don Juans, those two have done great and they are both on Doc.
Here are some pics of my garden:
To the left you can see Dick Clark in bloom and to the right you can see little Margot Koster in bloom.
These pics were from last spring and you can see the Twinny snap dragons and lobelia in full bloom. Now they only have occasional blooms.
To the top left is Dick Clark. I usually cut my rose blooms for the vase so there are not too many in the actual garden. I fill it out with Petunias, Lobelia and Snapdragon (all grown from seed) and a few marigolds and cosmos also from seed.
Here you can see Double Delight and Ingrid Burgman which bloomed while I was away on a trip. The little pink flowers are from an impatiens I grew from seed (you cant get them anymore around here due to the downy mildew that wiped them out, but some of mine still grew well from seed).
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8 years agoHere is a view from the other side. Here you can see tall tall Evelyn (center of pic) near the fence and Papi Delbard being trained on the fence horizontally behind the bench. Both have had sparse blooms but are fairly recently planted so I'm giving them time. On the arbor I grow Zephirine D (new, no blooms yet) on one side and Eden (also never bloomed) on the other. I have a few tree roses on either side of the bend and some mini roses growing in hanging baskets and in those little terracotta pots. They don't bloom much, but they survive. (Margot Koster below near the arbor, always has a few pink pecks on it. So cute!
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8 years agoHere is a couple of shots of my front yard rose garden (front side yard)
That's Easy Does It growing on fortuniana. This one was planted 2 years ago so its much happier and established than the ones in my back yard which were planted just this spring. :)
Below is Quietness. One of the few roses that does very well on its own roots here.
On the arbor I grow Pink Enchantment and Don Juan. Both bloom well. I have a newly planted Kathleen Haarop there too that has grown well but not yet bloomed. To the back right there you can see an nicely rounded Duchess De Brabant that has no blooms on it as of the photo time, but usually has lots of small pink blooms on it. Right now she's struggling a little with the heat, but she'll be happy again come fall.kublakan
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agothere is a fence to the left of the gate. This is Lillian Gibson, to the right is a small climber. There are hostas, coreopsis, sedums, and daiseys planted also but some things were not blooming when i took the picture.
This climber is to the left, leading to the gate.
the arch over the gate. The rose is Veilchenblau, to the right are small perennials.
a different view from the gate
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8 years agoThis is Edmond Proust who grows opposite Veilchenblau. The darker rose behind is Geschwind's Orden.
Veilchenblau on the left, Edmond Proust and Geschwind's Orden to the right.
In the front yard. Salvia, sage,hostas and other perennials. Behind are roses.
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8 years agoAdrian, those look amazing. What varieties are they? The roses love the summer rains here (as long as you spray, LOL). I have been cutting mine and bringing them inside so they don't fry in the midday heat.
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