I have purchased my first Rose...

[journey11]

Thanks... I really miss my FIL. He was an amazing person and he taught me so much. I've been thinking about him a lot lately since mushroom hunting season is coming up.

 

[ducks4you]

This explains my rose experiences, (from: "Pain in the neck plants,")
http://www.almanac.com/garden/flower/painplants.php

Rosa (tea rose).
1) If you don't prune it right, it doesn't bloom.
2) If you don't spray it with fungicides, it gets black spot.
3) If you don't feed it at the right time, it pouts.
4) If you don't bury it, it dies from the winter's cold.




Need I say more?

 

[HunkieDorie23]

Journey those roses are beautiful. Patented or not I would claim as many as you can for your daughter if nothing else. Then she could always have a part of her grandpa.

 

[ducks4you]

Waiting for my mom to get out of surgery last week, so I read the latest issue of "Organic Gardening" cover to cover. (I guess I digested it...)
Anyway, there was a terrific article, condensed here:
http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,7518,s1-5-18-176,00.html
http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,7518,s1-5-18-1853,00.html
about searching for hardy roses. The authors of the article searched vacant lots and old homesteads to find rose varieties that were growing with no tending. They came up with the lists in the above links.
Guess roses aren't so impossible, after all.

 

[vfem]

Whatever those are, I probably need to get those for my yard! LOL