I enjoyed the videos. How tall is the wooden stake that Mel is trained on? Did you wrap her around it? You did a really great job training her so neatly and tightly, I train climbers onto obelisks each year, and know it is not so easy to do!

Thank you BenT. The post is a 12 feet tall 4x4. Training it actually took me a long time. A lot of my neighbors ask me if roses just climb like that by themselves and it always makes me smile. ohhh I wish they did 😀. I added the front bed video, I wish I knew how to make them HD. I am not familiar with how the YouTube video works works very well.

Dianela, that giant pole is insane! Nice work.

Thank you Rockridge. I would very highly recommend Mel's heritage for any area that requires a flexible, healthy and reblooming rose.

I love the birds chirping in the background. Thank you for sharing you videos!

Dianela - Mel's Heritage is a rock star!! Totally incredible!! I can't imagine all the work it took to get that rose trained!! I also love your Earth Angel! What a beauty! I never thought of getting EA because the blooms looked too cupped to my eyes....but yours is amazing!! What a beauty!! They're all beautiful and there are so many blooms and buds!

I really enjoyed all three videos, Dianela. I couldn't stop thinking "Wow, she must not have any roof rats, rabbits or ground squirrels". All your roses looks so healthy and full, a real pleasure to see.

When, pray tell, do you have time, between your job and studying for the upcoming exams, to so lovingly tend all these roses? Not a weed in sight! And I'm pretty sure this is only a fraction of the total. It's hard to zero in on any one - they're all spectacular - but, Earth Angel is really something! Mel's Heritage, too! I don't even want to think about how you train that one. Darcy and Fiji have bigger blooms than I expected.

I also noticed a few clematis tucked in amongst the roses, which I love. I hope you'll show us this again when the lilies are blooming.

dianela, just beautiful. What an extraordinary achievement in such a short space of time. Congratulations.

Dianela, I am so impressed with your roses, they are all so beautiful and healthy, very enjoyable tour, thanks for sharing.

Great job.... I loved watching.

Wow! Thank you for the tour. Everything is stunning !! I don't know what you feed your lovely beasts but it has supersized them .I can't even believe the size and beauty of your Dark Desire. I pulled mine because it was such a dud.

Do you have any help with maintenance? If you don't I have no idea how you do it .all

The best part of the video is hearing your sweet voice.

Daniela, You have beautiful gardens! I really like your front bed. That is a great arbor over your front steps, it looks so sturdy and tall. Darcy Bussell and Dark Desire made me curious, is Darcy more purple of the two? They are both stunning!

Ingrid Thank you very much. I live in a few acres of land, but only garden close to the house so minimize the deer and rabbit damage. I actually have over 50 clematises planted with my roses but most of them were eaten by the bunnies this year already so I don't have many I can show. It definitely can be very upsetting when the animals come and destroy the plants. The deer don't seem to want to come in too close to the house so I have several sacrifice roses at the edge of the yard. I guess during the spring they have enough food around and their damage is reduced. In the fall I take their activity as "help pruning" and still complain a lot about it =)

Flowers thank you very much. I round up around my roses on a regular basis with a sponge. I know round up is not a healthy product, but I just couldn't do it without it. last summer I was too busy with work and my weeds got to waist high. My husband helps me a lot. Fiji is my husband's favorite, her blooms are very full of petals and the color is beautiful even when I prefer the lighter shades of pink. Ill definitely share more =) when the lilies open. I love clematises and have a lot of them planted so maybe on the future they will give me nice blooms. May have to eat a bunny or two before that happens, but they are so cute I would feel terrible killing them.

Trish thank you very much. Thanks to everyone here I have been able to learn a lot and have a lot of fun in the process.

Sara Ann thank you very much. I love your roses also and can't wait to see more of them this year.

Thank you Sharon.

Thank you Kristine very much. It was a bit funny hearing my own voice and sharing it, but I am always so disappointed when I watch a video with no labels or the person does not say the name of the rose that I had to speak up lol. I actually grow my plants in groups so they look bigger than they actually are. I have two dark desire plants around 3 feet from each other so they look fuller. Here she is a very tall plant, but not a wide otherwise. My husband helps me with the maintenance, he is very kind. I once paid someone to help me weed a single bed and he said the roses were too mean with those thorns and never came back lol. It is a lot of hard work, but it feels like therapy. My regular job is not very physically demanding and I don't get much exercise so after days of seating on a microscope working with my brain, just getting out there and working until I need ibuprofen for my sore muscles feels good .

Nola Thank you very much. My husband built that arbor for me and I am so grateful, I love it. Darcey is definitely more purple than Dark Desire. Dark desire is a very dark cool red, but it does not actually turn purple. Darcey is very cool red and turns very purple as it ages. Darcey has my all time favorite red color.

Thank you I will have to give it a go. I am using some garlic right now that Diane recommended and it seems to be working because some of my clems look better

daniela:

Do the tall ones get deadheaded? If so, by pole pruner?

Did I hear the name Raspberry Queen correctly?

Rifis the rose’s full name is Raspberry Cream Twirl, but Raspberry Queen would certainly fit her, so a wonderful rose. I don’t deadhead Mel‘s heritage on a regular basis, I get on a 10 foot ladder and clean it up summer and winter. The big Raspberry cream does get regular deadheading because it holds on to the blooms ugly and brown (her only flaw)

Dianela, what a treat! your roses are breathtaking. I really enjoyed the videos. So many up and coming blooms as well. Look forward to seeing more once the others bloom.

I’ve watched each twice dianela , there is so much to take in !! And I watched it with such anticipation, your garden is unbelievably beautiful!! How many earth angel do you have ? I couldn’t believe all the buds !!! It’s crazy . Your raspberry cream twirl is stunning . Litchfield angel is going to be astonishing!!! You’ve worked so hard . And omg mels heritage . I absolutely admire your garden and thank you for the videos!!! Don’t stop now !!!

Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful garden.

Colleen

Thank you very much Lala. I am certainly trying to improve my video skills (it is harder than it seems).

Lily thank you very much 😀😊. You should know that your TN garden was a HUGE inspiration for my garden. I miss you being around here, it was wonderful having a garden friend not too far with such a beautiful garden to admire and learn from :). I have 3 earth angels planted together. This is their 3rd year own root and I am hoping they will rebloom better. Lichfield angel is one of my favorite roses I can’t wait until they open.

I can’t thank you enough your kind words dianela . They really made my day. I wish I had been more forward in wanting to visit people’s gardens in my area, I could have driven a few hours and had such a lovely visit with you !! Your garden is amazing and you are very skilled !! Looking forward to seeing so much more from you . Your videos are perfect so please keep doing them .😊

Wow that Raspberry Cream Twirl arbor is incredible! And Mel’s Heritage. Thank you for taking us on a tour. Such a good idea to link to YouTube. I may need to try it. Nice way to archive the garden too.