Roses....Got Any?

[semperfi71]

There is a large number of folks worldwide who revere the rose and its many colors and varieties. They are extremely hardy plants. I think somewhere (in England?) there's a rose bush that is 800 years old?

I have lived in my home for 20 years or so. The rose bushes have been here all along as well. For most of my time I was very busy working and living and never gave them the care they really required.

This year I gave mine the care they needed and they rewarded me. Anybody got rose pictures?

 

[corpulent]

I bought some to plant this weekend. Last week was 75-80˚

Then yesterday it snowed. . .

 

[BrianMajors]

I don't have any that are worth a picture, but yours look beautiful! BTW, I love your style of home. Those logs along the roof look great inside, I'll bet.

 

[captorquewrench]

I miss my roses. Neighbor kid I asked to weed my flower bed for me last fall...well, I came home to all the weeds still there and very well established rose bushes pulled up and hacked to bits. no saving them. I tried.

"They had thorns, so they are weeds, right?"

I love that kid, but he ain't right.

Your roses look amazing!

 

[jeepjeepwhat]

I recently bought a house and on one of the places that I can't reach with my lawnmower had red thorny stems pocking through. My mother has identified them as roses. I think I will transplant them somewhere they can grow like yours instead of in the middle of grass where they would get hacked away. If I would have had a weed whacker I'm sure they would have gotten hacked. It makes me wonder how many years they have been there and just have gotten cut with the weed eater or lawn mower. I'll keep you posted with the pictures. Right now stems are only about a foot high.

 

[enfield]

Mine have been blooming for about a month now. It's been so cool and wet recently that I already am getting blackspot on them.

Here's one of the first Mr. Lincoln's:

 

[deralte]

Get yourself some easy care roses - Flower Carpet Roses. They orginated in Austria and when I worked in the Nursery Business in the late 90s they were imported to the US. Several years later they imported colors other than red. They are disease resistant, do not require dead heading and grow about 3 feet high and 4 feet wide.

 

[semperfi71]

Thanks for the nice replies. I am lucky to have such nice things.

jeepjeepwhat, roses in the middle of the lawn can actually look pretty cool if you don't have kids who might fall into them. A house down the road has that effect on their lawn.

enfield, the pic wouldn't load up. But I can google the name of that rose and get a pic I bet.

 

[enfield]

I recently bought a house and on one of the places that I can't reach with my lawnmower had red thorny stems pocking through. My mother has identified them as roses. I think I will transplant them somewhere they can grow like yours instead of in the middle of grass where they would get hacked away. If I would have had a weed whacker I'm sure they would have gotten hacked. It makes me wonder how many years they have been there and just have gotten cut with the weed eater or lawn mower. I'll keep you posted with the pictures. Right now stems are only about a foot high.

Not all roses are desirable. The multiflora rose is a non-native invasive species and is regarded as a weed. I'd wait to see what they develop into before transplanting them. Multiflora rose is notoriously hard to kill.

 

[Erich]

Those are nice, you guys. I grow native New Mexican roses - they're not showy, but they put a smile on my face and require no additional water.

 

[jbcap]

Truly some beautiful roses. My grandfather had numerous rose bushes all around his house when I was younger. I can remember him taking cuttings from other rose bushes he liked and grafting them to start his own. He really did have a green thumb. Joe