Beautiful! Is that second picture Love Song? Mine are tiny, but blooming after I had to cut them down in spring. I'm hoping they do better next year.

A few roses in the photo I was going to remove due to lack of vigor but I'm glad my husband said not to. Waiting 3-4 years is a long time to me but it paid off so I need to be more patient.

I also changed some things which made a marked difference. I put 1 gallon of fish emulsion in early spring, then I use BloomKote on all of my plants because it feeds for many months and the pellets dissolve.

The second picture is Blueberry Hill, but I have my eye on Love Song too :) Adding the extra gallon of nitrogen fish emulsion really made the roses spring up after our rough winter. I even had to get a trellis because one of them got too big so I learned that next year I need to cut back the nitrogen on some of the roses.

Everything is lovely Marigold, looks like you’ve done a great job.

Spark n Shine. Great vigor very disease free and she sparkles!

I think I need bluberry hill. Lovely

Marigold, your yard is lovely

Can you name names? I love the orange rose but they are all spectacular

Thank you kindly, Kristine. In the first picture is a red knockout, next to it is Earth Song in it's third year now. The second picture the first purple is Blueberry Hill in between is Cream Abundance only in it's first year but doing great for it's first year but I didn't get a shot of CA. Where my neighbor is standing is Moon Shadow which is the other purple rose a hybrid tea.

I didn't get a shots of my other roses which aren't blooming yet and or are newer ones like Rock n Roll and Ping's Sunrise Sunset, The Magician and Veteran's Honor to name some.

In the third picture the first rose is the red Crimson Bouquet next to it is the orange rose Easy Living. Here's another angel of Easy Living the front shots got a bit blurry so I didn't post them.

Beautiful Lily, thanks for sharing!

I know this is the roses forum but I've gotten some very nice sized plants from Home Depot for the price and free shipping. You'll see this one on the lawn in some of my shots getting ready to be planted. It's Purple Magic Crape Myrle we planted it around the bend of the complex. The other picture shows what it may look like when it's more mature and blooming.

Marigold, what a pretty garden you've created. And so nice for passers by. I'd have to be careful driving past your place! Love that purple crepe myrtle. That's going to look gorgeous. Trish

I’m glad I don’t have to go thru that corner by your house. I’d never make it thru. Love your Sparkle n Shine. She performs very well for me as well. Not a rose you here much about so I’m lucky to have tried it. Once again yours is a gorgeous yard.

Thanks Patty! It also feels good when things can be tough in our lives and gardening gives us some sunshine. It's great to be outdoors and play in the mud, something I never thought I'd do. But when my grandfather passed I wanted to go to the family home I grew up in to salvage the hard work he put into the garden and what he was passionate about. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it and so it inspired me to do it where I live. It took me years to learn and I'm still learning. I enjoy the challenge and I can now see he always had the greener thumb because things looked marvelous despite he didn't have the same outlets to research anything. But that's okay! I'd like to think he's looking down at me and he's proud of me working outside and that I'm stopping to smell the roses, something of which I used to take for granted and his nature talks. Now I stop and I take a look around to see the beauty that's out there rather than focus on too much negativity. I often look at other people's gardens and it brightens my day a lot!

Wonderful garden! If I was walking by, I would take about an hour to look and comment on each wonderful plant. Thanks for sharing. A joy to see!

What a gorgeous crepe myrtle

I love that yummy purple

I walk around my neighborhood every day and never see anything as pretty as your yard. I would walk verrrry slowly on your sidewalk, looking at all your beautiful roses.

I imagine people stop and talk to you when you are working in your yard. Well done and thanks for sharing your pictures with us.

What a lovely garden you've created, thank you for sharing!

Beautiful roses! I love how you line the roses on one side of the wooden walkway that goes up an incline. It must be so delightful to look down on your blooming roses and also smell their wonderful fragrance. Your roses look so healthy. I may need to supplement my roses with fish emulsion. Do you make your own fish emulsion or what brand do you use?

Oh my goodness!!! Your yard is incredibly gorgeous!!! You are an amazing rose grower!!! I would be beyond ecstatic if my roses looked that good!! And the purple plant is stunning!!!! Oh wow!!! I am soooo glad I opened this thread!!

Carol

Thanks Karen! I use Montery Fish n Poop 9-6-2 1 gallon for each rose. I also replace the soil each year which helps keep the plants healthier. But unfortunately I had to remove roses over the years due to the level of BS. I kept some so I have to spray a few which I don't like to do. I might remove Crimson Bouquet, as much as I like it and the roses stay on the bush for a long time but it gets decimated with BS and it affects the roses nearby. I'm going to give CB another year hoping that maybe when it's established the bush will be healhier.

Carol, thank you for the very kind words!!

THank you Marigold. Your roses evidently love this fish emulsion. I had such bad winter dieback that most of my roses are barely 2ft high and with so few branches. HOpe this would give them a boost.

Beautiful garden,you must have worked very hard,but it was worth it!thanks for sharing

Magnificent garden! Thanks for sharing.

Wow everything looks great Marigold33!

Julia child is looking fab

That Julia Child with the sweet alyssum is delightful!

Thank you

Zephyrine Drouhin after -10F Boston winter, in path of snowblower chute

That is so amazing that your beautiful rose took such a beating and looks so healthy

jwusauk - your Zeffy is amazing!!!! Glorious!!!

Kristine - I still can't believe your JCs are so filled with flowers!! Gorgeous!

Carol

Gorgeous Kristine and JW!!

Thank your for sharing your beautiful photos!!

Marigold, I love your garden! So many gorgeous roses! I had not heard of sparkle n shine, will have to look into it! Is it fragrant?

Kristine, I covet your Julia Childs. We get so much black spot here, though, that I’m afraid to get one.

Speaking of black spot, thanks for the compliments on ZD! She is the only rose I have that I need to spray. She will get black spot and look awful in a couple months, but for now, all is forgiven!

Thank you jw! Sparke n Shine is fragrant and has a very nice moderate apple/licorice fragrance. Sparkle n Shine's "Parentage Julie Newmar x Julia Child" I also have Julia Child and she's been very clean here, a wonderful rose!

Wow!

Yay. My very first bloom on Young Lycidis

Also first bloom of the season for Out of Rosenheim and Pretty Lady rose

.My mother was born in Bavaria, wow absolutely beautiful Sheryl! It's just like the paintings we have!

First blooms are beautiful Kristine, thanks for sharing! The photos brighten my day!

I'm a bit disappointed in Veteran's Honor, while it's in it's second year it hasn't had the vigor I thought it would and only 1 bloom so far. I know it'll get much better but I'm impatient sometimes :) I guess because I recall years back when I planted VH and within it's first year it shot up and presented quite a few blooms. The second year wow and so on. But as they say good things come to those who wait. The discouraging thing is it's susceptible to BS so I have to keep an eye on that. Otherwise it's one of my favorites, a standout out. The roses stay on the bush for more than 2 weeks and keeps it's color. The blooms nod a bit but I can live with that and it has a nice raspberry fragrance.