That should look really beautiful. Maybe put some low growing annuals in the pots at the foot of the roses for extra color.

I thought about purple petunias or salvia.

Sounds good.

Ooooo, or minie cascading roses

I think one of those big urn planters would look nice too. This could be expensive. I'll have to look for the cascading mini roses too!

Sam's Club had some of those urns, made of some sort of lite-weight composite. The real things are very expensive aren't they?

Yes. I've been looking at them. I think the composite ones are ok but the color doesn't last and they scratch easy. The ones I'm looking at cost more but they are concrete I believe and really sturdy.

Well, the most expensive are made of lead and I think bronze or something to stabalize the lead. They kind of looked like cast iron, but the late owner's son said "No, they are lead". I found a couple at an estate sale some years ago. It took two of us to load them into my truck. Once I got them potted up I couldn't move them! They had to stay with the house when I moved!

the composite ones can be painted to look like iron

Awesome. I got some that are made out of sand I think. They are light weight. If they fade, I'll just paint them black like the expensive ones I looked at.

Is someone looking for a very fragrant orange rose?
Check out Fragrant Cloud. I have two of these roses and they smell fantastic. I can smell their sweet perfume from six feet away on summer days. Fragrant Cloud won the Gamble Fragrance award in 1970.

That is a beauty. I'll have to find one of those!

Out of all of the roses, my hubby like the fragrance of Fragrant Cloud the best. If I ever lose these roses, he would pout until I ordered more to replace them.

One more pic to tempt you

Rita i love your groupings. I plant my roses the same way. I do have a strict spraying schedule for fungus because of this. Do you have to spray?


Val beautiful Fragrant Cloud...

Oh yes. Long Island is hot and humid in the summer. If I didn't spray I would have roses as sticks with no leaves. And I have no tolerence for blackspot. I want my roses totally clean. I don't manage perfect but I try.

I do have a very wildlife friendly garden so spray with fungicide only. I really don't have Japanese beetles here so I am lucky. I usually see birds flitting about in my roses looking for bugs. They are just another shrub for the birds around here to check out.

I don't like roses spaced out apart the way they might be done elsewhere. I want a jumble of color. So I put them closely together. Works here.

It works beautifully for you. What fungicide do you use?

Usuaslly Bonide Infuse

These roses are blooming nicely today

Its Reve d'Or and Duchesse de Brabant

Oh, my God. How huge and gorgeous! My roses aren't anywhere near full bloom yet, except for the Banksias, of course.

gosh zuzu we have had the most mild winter ever. It never reached below 42 and so the roses came right back after pruning and with all the rain they are exploding with buds.