Hi,I'm looking for a rooted climbing pinkie rose.My haves list in not updated but I can try to find something in exchange.Debbie

Place cardboard down before you fill the bed with soil or what ever you're going to use as fill. The cardboard will be a barrier between the grass and the soil in the bed. In a short time the grass will die and disappear. If you're not going to complete the project until next spring place the cardboard down now with a few bricks to hold it. By spring there will be no grass left, just bare ground. Using the squat pots is a great suggestion. Your raised bed in the area pictured should be plenty tall enough to hide the pots. Keep in mind you'll want to use own root plants as grafted plants may set up too high to cover the bud union, especially in a squat pot. That's not a problem in California where Jeri lives but could be in your zone 5. Another thought, don't fill the bed until you've placed the pots. It'll be easier to move them around to get the best look. You don't have to use soil in the bed with the pots. Fill the spaces between the pots with mulch. As it settles you can top it off to keep it looking good. This would be a good place to use a drip system for your watering needs. Just run it from pot to pot without watering the mulch in between. Even with a barrier and a raised bed, the tree roots may be a problem in the future. They're not adverse to growing in mulch or what ever else you may use as fill. Should you decide to use landscape fabric or plastic sheeting as a barrier, the tree roots will grow into it. Attempting to remove plastic or landscape fabric from tree roots can be difficult. The previous owners of my home used heavy plastic under river rocks all around the house. When I removed the rocks and plastic the shrubbery and evergreen roots were entangled in it making it impossible to remove in some cases.

Can take cuttings of the following fruit trees (limited as they are only 2-3 year old trees): Ashmead's Kernel apple Williams Pride apple Red Boskoop apple Empire apple Also, Harglow Apricot Stanley Plum Stella Cherry Also can offer cuttings of Endless Summer and Annabelle hydrangeas Other: Apple Blossom orchid division (will send 5 pseudobulbs with leaves) lots of yellow daylilies and tiger lilies Lily of the valley Hosta (unknown variety, probably Lancifolia) periwinkle spiderwort (pink, white, and purple) aloe kalanchoe christmas cactus Capron Musk strawberry various aquatic plants ( cabomba, water spangle, bacopa) Hoping for the following cuttings/young plants/divisions: Eden climbing rose Hudson Golden Gem apple (used to have one but landscaper destroyed it!) Korean pear (giant) Peonies Dahlias Beautyberry (Callicarpa) Lingonberries Lilacs (unusual varieties)

I have never heard of cutting back a bare root rose at planting unless there is some dead cane to be removed. Pruning of any kind always stimulates TOP growth, not the roots. You can leave all the hips on you want. The rose will not go dormant. It will continue to put out growth until the weather stops it. I've left hips on from the spring flush in June and the rose continued to grow and bloom right through until October. New Dawn is such a growth monster that I can't see any purpose in disbudding it. The roots are growing, count on it! Roses, climbers in particular, will not send up more cane than their root system can sustain. Hence the saying for climbers, first year sleep, second year creep, third year leap. Those first few years that it seems to not be doing anything it is in fact building a big enough root ball to be able to push nutrients up those long canes you're waiting for. Once it feels it has sufficient roots to do that it will begin to climb.