I joined the Daylily, Lily, Iris and Bulbs Cubits in this site and since I have had the rose crazies the longest and have about 230 roses, I figgured I would join up here too. Last year I had about two hundred but then went nuts about midsummmer and bought about 30 new small own root roses .
I bought from Vintage and Heirloom. I knew the bands wouldn't be very big as I had bought from Heirloom before. One reason being that I just love Clements roses.
It's quite humid here on Long Island in the summer so the roses do need spraying with a good fungide if you want nice green leaves that stay on the shrubs. Everything in my garden has too look decent even when not in bloom so I have to spray. Fortunately we are not bothered by Japanese Beetles here so a fungicide is all I need.
I don't have any old garden roses as I don't care for them but do love the old fashioned thick flower form so have lots of modern old fashioned look alikes. Plus I have all types of roses from high centered hybrid teas to singles to small flowered tiny roses. I like the floribundas and shrub types the best.
Besides the rose crazies my yard is heavily plannted with bee, butterfly and hummingbird attracting plants. Plus lots of fruiting shrubs that attract the backyard songbirds. Then there are the daylily, lily and iris flowers besides the roses.
I love my garden and spend as much time ouside as possible as soon as spring starts to green everything up.
