Your garden is stunning. Love the pots. Just a bit envious of your zone9 location. Love the iris and roses combination. Wish I could have this combo but my roses flower way later than the irises do in my z5b garden. It's just so heavenly and romantic. sigh...

sharon

Mustbnuts - My favorite part is your potted rose area!! So many gorgeous pinks!!! Such wonderful roses!!! Oh, drool!!!!! Thank you!!!

Carol

I think Dr. Huey can keep coming back from root fragments for years. I wouldn't call it dormant, so much as below ground working it's way up over time. Your garden looks great!

Your garden is gorgeous! Yes, Dr Huey can come up for several years after you pull out a grafted rose. As Sheila said, root fragments begin to grow underground and will eventually pop out. Just keep removing them as they show up and eventually you'll get them all.

Your garden is looking great! I have loved your entry way from the very first when you posted pics. I recall you had Princess Alexandra of Kent there as well - have you moved that or is my recollection incorrect?

And your backyard is just beautiful. Flamingo Dancer is stunning. I regret that I didn’t get it from Burling and now I don’t have space.

Yes, I have Dr. Huey sprouting up in a bed. I had dug up a grafted Rose and moved it elsewhere a few years ago. Dr. Huey keeps coming up in a different spots - the roots must have really wandered.

Jo

Beautiful garden !! I too love the iris with the roses . Planning a visit to an iris farm this week . The blues are so incredible with the roses !!

Nancy, I know how you feel. Dr. Huey was really pretty but it is a pretty thug in the garden and since I have such a small yard, I don't need it taking over. I just hate to pull out any plant with the exception of oxalis. I hate Oxalis! Oh, and crab grass.

Seil and Sheila, your words are reassuring to me. Thank you. Looks like I will be doing this for a long period of time. Good to know that eventually I can get it all out and don't have to replace all my roses again.

Oh, Lily! Iris farms are dangerous places! There are so many beautiful varieties and I would love to have all of them! I am trying to see if I can find room for Oreo Cookie. I have wanted that Iris for years. Plus some are fragrant and some will bloom more than once. Unfortunately, none of my varieties have those qualities but I love them the same.

Jo, I can't believe you remember my front yard! Yes, you are right. I had the Princess in the front close to my front door. DA stated the Princess only got between 3--4 feet. Well, not in my yard. She was own root and got over 8 feet her first year!!!! She was eating anyone that walked up to my front door, even with pruning her down to nothing. So, she got moved to the back where she is behind the arch you saw with Flamingo Dancer. She can get as tall as she wants in that location. Strangely, she never has gotten as big there but she gets a whole lot more sun and heat in that location.

Enchanted Roses and Rose Canadian, thank you for the complements on my potted roses in the back. I never planned to have them be in pots but it is the only room I have. I have three roses I grew from seed for Roseseek in pots back there. One is definitely a climber and possibly a second one. The third is just staying tiny but it does not get much sun all day due to my small yard and where I have it placed. The nice thing about pots are that you can move them around (provided I have drip emitters where they end up eventually) and you don't have to bend down to prune them! Important as I get older.

Thank you all for your kind words again.

mustbnuts, it's good to see you posting here again. I think your garden looks great. So many blooms! I love iris too, and pray for the day when mine look anything like yours.

Trish

Trish! I have missed you! Thank you for posting. I think your yard is gorgeous!!!!! Hope you are well! Are you ready for winter?

Welcome back mustbnuts, your garden looks great!! Lemme know if you ever want to rehome EMILY ;-)

We have missed you too, mustb..... very much. We were worried there was something wrong. Yes thanks, I'm very well, but rather short on energy. The doctor has just looked at me (had loads of tests) - which I interpret as "What do you expect at your age and weight!"

We have had an endless hot, humid but dry spring and summer. Well, it actually ended a week ago, and we are having nice autumn weather, and had rain. Yay!

Thanks on the compliment on my garden, which, honestly, if you saw it, you would see is rather undeserved! But I live in hope. I have lots of plants to shift this autumn, mostly roses and daylilies. It's annoying to find that what was sold to me as Dr Grill, is actually William R Smith, which grows straight up to around 10' to 12', with 2 or 3 canes! It is a beautiful flower though. But now I have to move it, and I'm wondering how it will survive.

I have Dr Huey too - in more than one spot, but my garden is so messy, it's not a worry. Yours is so neat and pretty, and your roses are just popping.

Are you still dancing? Sorry to hear about your crazy work schedule. I do hope you'll be able to retire soon. And how are the new neighbours?

Aaaaahhhh, just read on another thread, that you have retired from 'the wretched place'. I am so happy for you. Congratulations!

Beautiful as always, mustb. Do you have a photo of Sister Elizabeth? Elizabeth is my given name, so I’ve been very interested in seeing a well grown specimen. I have a good afternoon shade spot for her. Thanks, Lisa

Thank you Romo. Emily is such a sentimental rose for me. Since I planted her on the side yard and in much more shade, she is starting to take off. She gets about 3--4 feet tall and actually has more than one flower a year!

Yes, I am still dancing (badly, but I persevere). I am starting to take walks at night to get into better shape and lose some weight gained over the last couple of years. That will help my dancing tremendously.

Ah, Sister Elizabeth. Let me see if I can find a picture. If you were here, I would pull her out and give her to you.

Nancy - your Dr. Huey is sooo beautiful!!! I don't think I've ever seen it before, since we don't have that as a rootstock. :)

Titian - yup...I have the same problems...weight gain and short on energy. :)

Mustbnuts - what roses did you get seeds from? Were they OP?

Carol

Mustbnuts - Oh!!!!!! I love your Sister Elizabeth!!! That's one I would love to get!!! So it's a floppy rose, huh. How is the fragrance? Oh wow!!!!! Heavenly rose!! Good luck with your weight loss...hopefully I can do better too. :)

Carol

Thank you for the pictures of Sister Elizabeth, mustb! She’s so lovely! I’ve already purchased her bareroot from DA, but potted her up because I wasn’t sure where to place her. I’m glad I waited to put her in the ground, since you’ve found she’s not thrilled with high temps. I think I have a perfect spot with some afternoon shade for her. Now I just need to figure out how large she will get here. Mine is grafted, but that’s the only way I could find SE. They grafted her so high it’s ridiculous! My little Sister Elizabeth looks like a mini tree rose in her pot. She’s not floppy yet, but she has several buds. Is it the weight of the blooms that cause her to flop? Mine is new, but the stems supporting those buds do look thin. I hope they will thicken up and strengthen as the buds grow larger. What’s the overall size of your Sister Elizabeth? I love having you to ask about this. I hope you don’t mind. I really appreciate it. What stays small everywhere else can be ginormous in California! It’s late and dark now, so I can’t take a picture of mine, but I’m irritated about the super high graft. All the growth is coming from one side, and that long bare shank just bugs me. Sorry, I’m done with my little DA rant now:) Lisa

What a beautiful garden! I like all your plants, including the blue irises.

Congrats on your retirement, MBNuts! Yay! More time for your garden and my Dad said after he retired he didn't know how he ever had time to work! ; )

Carol, RoseSeek was kind enough to send me a bunch of rose seeds that he had bred himself. Out of the 100 seeds or so, only three plants lasted. Don't know if any of them would have any commercial value. I am getting partial to two of them. One is the pink climber that is a semi double to single pink flower. The other is the pale pink one that may become a climber. The third has pink flowers but has not done much...yet and is still tiny for having them for three years. I think I have some pictures.

Mustbnuts,

I feel like I owe you an admission fee just for looking at the photos of your garden that you posted! Does one walk about your garden or mosey along, floating upon a cloud? Your garden is stunningly beautiful! It shows tremendous creativity. Thanks for posting your handiwork.

Just yank out your Dr. Huey wherever and whenever it pops up. I have not had a persistent Dr. Huey problem, but something similar. I removed a Poulsen, Town and Country rose (can't recall it's name), that sent up growth from remaining root fragments in the area where it grew for a couple years. I can imagine that the vigorous nature of Dr. Huey could make live, regenerative root fragments persist for years. They can't live for ever. They need leaves to nurture/feed them. No leaves, eventually no Dr. Huey.

Moses

Sorry to hear, Lisa, about your grafted Sister Elizabeth. Let me see if I can answer all of your questions. I do believe that Sister Elizabeth has a reputation for being a floppy rose. I just staked her this morning when I was deadheading. She does tend to have thin stems and I think that contributes to it. As far as overall size, she does not get very big for me. However, she gets the brunt of the sun and heat everyday with no shade in sight. Depending on where you place yours, that may make a difference. I would say that she gets to be about three feet tall or so and about two feet wide. I just wish I could remember where I purchased her on her own root. I checked my "normal haunts" for own root and didn't see that they carried her.

I don't detect much of a fragrance on her but my nose is more attuned to food smells rather than rose smells. What one person states is a strong smelling rose, I can barely smell. Now food on the other hand, I can tell you most of the ingredients from the scent! Go figure!

I have pretty well consistently pruned her to try to get her to grow thicker canes to see if that will make a difference. It hasn't so far and I think I will try not pruning her at all in the upcoming winter to see again if that makes a difference.

She is lucky to be here. I nearly pulled her out yesterday and today. I will give her another year to prove herself worthy but she may end up going. I think she would be happier in a pot and she may end up there next year. I really love my Mary Magdalene rose and if I had known then, what I know now, I would have their places switched in the garden. Mary can really take the heat and sun and produces beautiful blooms. Mary is hard to see because she is behind Elizabeth.

Perhaps, since Sister Elizabeth is named after a nun, it is the final way that nuns have found to torture me since I left catholic school......You know, the more I think about this theory, the more likely it seems!

Ah Moses, you are too kind! Thank you for the nice compliment.

mustbnuts - I must have missed where you said you are retiring. That's fabulous news!! Wow!!! That opens up so much time and relaxation in your life!! Congratulations! That was a great opportunity to get rose seeds. I love the darker pink one a lot! You'll have to show how they do this year. :)

Carol

Thanks Carol. It is good to be back on the forum. I don't know what is going on with Houzz (does anyone?) but you will have to click on the first picture to see the flowers.

Are you finally getting some semblance of spring up there?

We're getting summer weather! Temps are 20C/68F! It's wonderful!!! Yippee!!!!! :)

Carol