Dianela, A beautiful garden in just 3 years?! I am growing roses here in the land of tree roots, they don’t grow that big in 3 years. Are you in medical school or nursing school? I thought you are retired for some reason. :-) Great job!

So impressive I love every photo!!

You have quite a selection of beautiful flowers there. Thanks for the look. I am curious as to where you are. Are you near the coast, or are you inland? It can make a significant difference in flower quality. Just wondering.

Beautiful garden!

Wow! Beautiful, Dianela!!!

I'll add another Wow, dianela. The number of blooms.... What a wonderful garden you've created in just three years. Congratulations.

The garden looks wonderful, Dianela. This hobby will bring you so much joy.

...just fantastic and nice to see some familiar names.. Austins are made for your garden... you probably grow them better than they do..

The residency for surgery is avg 80 hrs a week for 5 years. You have done a beautiful job with your garden! A super girl!

I am working full time, 40 hrs a week, my garden is a mess with grass and weeds all over. I start to think the weeds can be ground covers and let them be .........lol

What’s the climber by your house entrance? It’s eye catching!

Thank you for all the beautiful compliments. I will go to my desktop and write individual replies.

wow ! your garden is spectacular .

Hello Sara, thank you. I am glad you like it. I have enjoyed seeing your roses blooming this year also.

Karen thank you. I am definitely not a pro but you all here certainly are and I have tried to follow what the experienced gardeners here have to say, which has worked very well.

Helen thank you =) I really like your garden and I am glad you like mine.

Trish thank you very much, your garden views have been a great inspiration. My house doesn't have heights from where I can look at my roses like yours do, so I had my windows made into picture windows so try and create "pictures" of the garden from the inside. I will post some in the future when I actually have something that can be seen from those windows.

Thank you Sheila, my grandmother has always loved gardening and I certainly inherited her love for it. Just walking around in the garden noticing every bud and minute change in my plants gives me a lot of happiness.

Totoro thank you =). I love your garden and all the soft romantic looks you create. I specially love how you have been able to incorporate all those Japanese trees adding another layer of wonder and serenity. I was reading your comment on the river bed last night and the entire picture was just impressive. I don't have that level of creativity, but I am willing to learn.

Mme A is a beast around here, that picture I posted was from a band I planted last year and it is shooting up those long canes. I have another one pegged to the ground in a different location and I will add a picture. I love how you pillared yours and can't wait to see it in full bloom. I had some pillared in an obelisk too at some point and they literally broke the thing. I thought I was going to get rid of mine because they are very difficult to control, but it is such a beautiful pale rose I can't do it.

The 4x4s were around only maybe $20 each and we used concrete to set them in the ground. I am not much of a super woman, I feel tired all the time and complain a lot. Of course I wouldn't be so tired if I didn't plant roses like a mad woman when I don't have enough time for them. What kind of surgeon are you if you don't mind me asking? I am glad you are getting some time to garden now working from home. Have you considered one of those standing desks? Some of my attendings are using those since pathologist also suffer from sitting long hours at the scope.

Blondie thank you =), I am a huge Austin fan. I literally like them all. Unfortunately must of them need to be sprayed here due my high black spot pressure. I Added several new Austins this year and so far I am very impressed with Olivia, Roald D, Christopher Mar, Alnwick and Teasing Georgia. Marlow has the most beautiful color changing blooms and is incredibly healthy. Olivia is just perfect in every way.

Marlorena thank you! No one grows Austins like you do lol =). More than one rose in this garden has been added after seeing your garden,specially Royal Jubilee and James L Austin. I will also be adding the ancient mariner after seeing how gorgeous it is in your pictures.

Summers thank you very much. I have seen some pictures of your roses and they are beautiful in every way. I also want to clarify that Totoro is the surgeon. I am doing Clinical and Anatomical pathology residency which is 4 years and thankfully only work around 60 hours a week. I really love pathology and the specialty has very decent working hours. The climber on the arch is Raspberry cream and it is amazing. It also is almost thornless and a pleasure to work with in every way. I would highly recommend that rose.

I was really interested to open the thread because this is my 3rd year also. All I can say is wow, wow, wow. Very impressive roses! Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Beautiful! I hope my 'Raspberry Cream Twirl' looks that good one day. To do all this while finishing a residency ('Only' 60 hours a week?!)- I'm in awe!

Nothing I can add that hasn't already been said! Your garden is perfection! I am so envious!

the_bustopher z6 MO Sorry I just noticed I missed answering your question. I am in north Alabama 6 hours from the coast.

Thank you mmmm :)

thank you very much ac. I really appreciate you. I still don’t have any children so I guess that helps me to have a bit less responsibility. I will have to let the garden go next year when I have to study for my boards. I am also hoping to at some point have a baby (after residency) which will certainly slow me down. For now I am just a crazy rose lady.

I just discovered one of my new beds where I just planted lady of shallot and the Ascot rose I so been looking forward to is standing in several inches of water so I must have accidentally broken some water pipes:(. I guess I’ll have to dig everything back up.

Wow, gorgeous garden, so many awesome roses. Olivia Rose Austin is a new favorite for me, love the blooms.

Princess Anne is new to my garden, planted last year. I like it as well.

It's nice to see a pic of James L. Austin, beautiful looking red rose.

Thanks to your photo. I now have 2 Raspberry Cream Twirl. :-) And I felt lazy after hearing your 60 hrs a week. If I put in 20 hrs a week into gardening, my garden won't be messy. I dug out weeds from 2 rose beds today, still have many more to go. I got some motivation from this beautiful thread! Thanks! :-)

Thank you for sharing all the the beautiful photos of your garden. I have such a love and admiration for romantic look David Austin Roses and other romantic style roses.

Your photos of Princess Anne roses is just stunning! I’m really debating between Princess Anne and James L. Austin rose... which I saw for the first time today at Rogers Garden in Newport Beach, CA.

I don’t actually grow any David Austin roses yet... but that might changed based on seeing your photos.

I’m just a little worried they may not perform as well for me here along the Southern California Coast. I’m in USDA Zone 10b... I’m located about 5 miles from the beach.

I currently have 2 white Eden Climbers, a pink Eden Climber, 2 Boleros and several iceberg roses. But I’m redoing my landscape and would love to add a couple of really special roses... planted in front of my climbing pink Eden and next to my Boleros. I’m thinking your either Princess Anne or James L. Austin would be good choices. Do you have any insights or guidance regarding this decision?

I don’t have anywhere near the amount of planting space we you do, since land is such a premium where I live... so I need to be SUPER selective with the roses I plant.

dianela7bnorthal do you have any pictures of the garden this year.... we would love to see an update if you have the time.... I just love your garden.

Sharon

Wow...I love it! You must be blessed with good soil. Everything is so colorful and healthy looking. Is that an Arabella clematis in the picture with alliums, lilies, and You Are the One?

Dianela: I never get tired of looking at your rose pics... no matter how many times I come back to this post. Would love to see more if you would like to share.

Sorry Ann, Sharon and erasmus. I did not realize I had any new posts here. I actually forgot this was my post lol.

A lot of my areas look pretty much the same this year with a few changes. I lost 2 ballerinas to RRD and I have replaced them with James Austin but he is still small. I also have a couple of beds that were new last year and they are a little better this year.

Erasmus I think our soil is not bad, it is red sandy clay and I amend with a lot of black cow manure mixed with potting soil. Yes clematis arabella is my best clematis.

I will pots pictures from this year that show a some of the areas I have instead of just individual blooms. I like when people show their beds.

This area has suffered a lot from the rabbits and deer since that edge of the yard connects to acres of empty woods. Through a window on south side

East

Front

West

east

Sorry I went overboard with the pictures 😆these are most of my rose beds. I have a couple of areas that are still too new or ugly I did not show

South

Front towards the street

Dianela, no such thing as overboard with photos. And, the word ugly doesn't belong in the same thread with your roses. Oh, my goodness!! Do you ever find strangers in your yard with a picnic basket and a quilt spread on the ground, having lunch?

Thank you flowers 😀. I am so glad you like it. I find myself with a phone full of rose pictures lol I have no photography skills and use my iPhone but it is still fun. I have met many of the people who live in the neighborhood because since we don’t have a fence (no one does around here). They just pull up to my house lol and comment on how much the property has changed with my garden. It has been fun meeting them.

These are all new views and I'm ready to bring my Thermos and relax there a bit. I feel so bad that you lost your two Ballerinas. They added so much to that space and contrasted beautifully with the fuller flowers. Is the yellow single in the second to last picture Sally Holmes?. It's very charming. I didn't realize you had so many of these single beauties.

Love your rose photos! That's your forever home, don't move! :-) Love your pole barn garage too! How many car garages do you have there? :-)

Vapor the single rose is Kew Gardens. I have a thing for the hybrid musk type small blooms and singles. Thankfully I had 4 ballerinas and these two in the pictures were far from the other two I lost. I really love them. Maybe one day you can stop by north alabama if you ever vacation this way during rose season😁

summersrhythm: we definitely love this place. We have invested a lot of time and effort into fixing it after it had been foreclosure for several years. We even met one of the original owners who was born in our bedroom she said in 1938 lol 😁. She was one of those strangers that showed up one day. It is very handy to have a big shed. My husband likes building off-road vehicles and fixing old international scouts so he that is really his space. It keeps everything contained instead of inside the house lol which I am sure he would do otherwise.

Dianela, good for you! If one day I become a snowbird I’d love to find a house near you, you are in a land of magic there! : -) I always want to buy a foreclosure,, but we have so many flippers here, it’s hard to compete with them. We found a home sweet home in the countryside last winter. We are still in the process buying this short sale property (since Feb). The seller bank has accepted our offer, we are waiting for the close right now. Can’t wait!! The place has 2.5 car garage, I’d love to have a big pole barn like yours! :-)

Flowers - that is so funny!!!! People picnicking on her lawn...sounds like a great idea...let's all descend on her with cucumber sandwiches. :)

Dianela - thanks for the name...Kew Gardens...that one really caught my eye too! Your rose beds are so beautiful...and SO well taken care of!! I would love to have a picnic at your place and then stroll and see your garden...it would be so restful and so enchanting!! That's wonderful that the woman who had been born in your house came for a visit. Have you ever heard the song, "The House That Built Me?" That's what it reminds me of.

Summers - is this a summer house for you or are you moving? How exciting!!!

Carol, thanks. It’s not a summer house, we are moving there, becoming full time country folks, will still keep the weekend country property in PA, :-)

Summers YAYY 😄for you. A new house with good space is going to be a blast for you. I personally love living in the countryside. I think life moves slower and less stress in a less busy place. I am looking forward to seeing your future garden.

Carol I have hot heard the song but I am going to look it up.

Witchy you’re ate too funny. Those memes are always so entertaining.

Thanks Dianela. I can't wait to plant some roses there. There are about 4 acres of woods that I could make a mountain bike trail and rest a few acres I could use for roses, fruit trees. The place used to be a country inn with 200 acres many moons ago.

Dianela, how do you keep deer away from your roses? Do you use any spray?

Summers, this sounds like a dream house and plenty of space for your rose collection. Will you be transplanting your roses. (Sorry if you've said this before.) Dianela, I have often admired KewGardens, but few seem to grow it or at least post pics. How is it for BS when you can't spray regularly. That IS funny, witchy! :-)

Summers that DOES sound like a dream home for sure. That is going to be spectacular. You can set up a green house and have all kinds of awesome things also in there. What a lovely place that is going to be. I am super excited for you.

Vapor unfortunately Kew gardens does get BS here when I don’t spray. To be fair it keeps blooming and I do not think 🤔 i has completely defoliated but not clean like Darlow’s enigma. It has few thorns and it forms a very nicely shaped bush. I will stop spraying it and see what happens and report back. (I have quit spraying certain roses to test them in order to determine if they will qualify to be added to my no spray small garden at the lake). So far spirit of freedom, Olivia, Bathsheba, Claire, Wollerton old hall, Emily, Roal Dahl and Wedgwood are clean enough to get a spot. I much as I love gardening I can barely keep up with one so the other place needs to be lower maintenance.

Thanks Vap. We should all grow KewGardens! Yes, I will transplant most of my roses to the new place. I haven't started digging them out yet, have to wait for the close first. We probably would need a year to move out and get current house ready to rent. I have collected a lot of stuff over the years including two big pianos. Lol

Thanks Dianela. A green house is one of my dreams. Your lake rose garden must be beautiful too just like this one. Please post some photos when you have a chance. :-)

Thank you for showing the pictures this year.... I REALLY REALLY like the garden shots. Your garden is beautiful. I am with flowersaremusic and vaporvac.... ready to bring a picnic basket and a thermos.....

It certainly is prettier than most parks I have ever been too.

Summers - What a wonderful idea!! Are you going to dig up your roses or buy new ones? It's exciting in that you'll probably have more room for roses and you get the chance to learn from mistakes and start again. Ooops...I see you have already answered my question) :)

The House that Built me...by Miranda Lambert ... it's a beautiful song!!

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Carol, I am babying some potted new roses from this spring for the new garden. My deck is full and no room to sit . Lol

Summers - LOL but so much fun!!! Which varieties?

They are DAs, Kordes and some tender teas which will be in pots forever. And a few potted small trees: 1 fig tree, 1 apricot, 2 persimmon , 2 pine .

So beautiful! I am in awe of your Boscobel. I can see why you love it.

Thanks for sharing this with