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CindiKS said:Beautiful choice, Zuzu.
Don't cataracts affect color perception? It will be interesting to hear if your perception of subtle colors on the roses changes after the surgery.
Twenty years ago, I had surgery that took me from legally blind to near perfect vision, and I was thrilled to see so many new colors, shades of color I had never seen. Picture going from an 8 color computer to one with 16 million. Overwhelming!
I hope you have your helper with you digging all those holes. Someone commented that they relocate roses if they are not growing well, so i am trying that with a few. Daylilies and iris that are encroaching on rose root zones are on the hit list this week, even though it is kind of late in the season. Our temps are still in the 80s, and the soil is moist from a recent 2" rain. My K&M order is on the way, and I am tempted to plant them out.

Cindi ... I am probably the person who wrote about re-siting a rose. Often a rose can do well in your climate, but for some reason just isn't happy where you have originially sited it. But you can move it just a few feet or just to another bed and it's almost like having a new plant. The rose just takes off.

That's what happened with my 'Sweet Chariot'. I had it in the same spot for three years and it just limped along. I moved it to another bed ... maybe about six feet away from where I originally sited the plant and it is almost jumping out of the ground. I am caring for it in exactly the same way as I was before.

The only difference I can see is that it is further away from the juniper slope. On the other hand, it is closer to a larger spieria and has to contend with more full sun.

It's always something. The plant just handles the full sun better ...