Looks like that driveway project is going to get a number of new roses. Julia Child and Out of Rosenheim will be near the street end. The climbers will be tucked back away from the drive along a stream. Not sure where I'll squeeze in the several new HTs, but there must be a place for them somewhere. Here's my list.
- Buxom Beauty (to replace 2 MAAB)
- Monica (thanks to RVR's high praise for it)
- Signature (does it really have that perfect form?)
- Lorice Wojciechowski (sometimes a name will sell a rose ... sometimes the rose has to stand on its physical qualities)
- Paula Smart (a smart buy, if I say so myself)
- Fairhope (have always fallen for its perfectly shaped little blossoms and its soft color)
- Julia Child (five for the driveway project)
- Out of Rosenheim (thanks to Cindi, hoping it looks good with Julia Child)
- Larissa (there just has to be room for a few foliferous. fragrant, and remontant climbers... there just has to be)
- Laguna "
- Jasmina "
- Albertine (to clamber up a large hill of boulders by the drive)
- Grandessa (can't resist a fragrant red climber)
- Roberta Bondar (King's Ransom x Buff Beauty .. a cross that seems to have inherited many of the best features of each)
- Kordes Brilliant (thanks to Toni)
- Lion's Fairy Tale (I had to choose one)
Cindi, Madame Plantier is in the ARE catalogue, I believe. I got two of them last year and they are growing vigorously.
Toni, I hope your strategy works. Somehow playing in the mud seems much more appealing to me here in March than it does in November. But I'll be interested to know how it works. Good luck with Charles de Gaulle. Saw a bunch of blooms on mine today before I saw you were getting it and I was reminded of your love of 'blue' roses. I do hope you like it.
Zuzu, I planted Jam and Jerusalem from Pickering this spring. It's been hiding underneath some nearby crocosmia foliage which I have to lift to view the flowers. I'm hoping the Palatine plants prove bigger and more vigorous for you. I was surprised to find the spring flowers devoid of pigment, showing almost snow white, but the autumn blooms have a nice blush-orange flush to them. I keep getting close to ordering Magenta, then I back away at the last minute wondering where it would fit in the garden. It looks like it could be a great rose. Maybe next year.
