Luckily, Toni, I have no car, my mortgage payments have been quite manageable ever since I severed ties with my thieving family and haven't had to refinance the mortgage regularly to compensate for their larcenous habits, and I have no DH to reorder my priorities.
As for enough room to plant everything, Porkpal, well.... not really. I actually ran out of room hundreds of roses ago and started growing them in containers, but this year I've been drastically pruning or removing lots of overgrown shrubs and perennials to make more room. I had determined to move all of my container roses into the ground this year, but many of the roses on my orders from Cliff are duplicates of little band roses that have been growing in containers for two or three years and still look highly unimpressive. I'll use the space for Cliff's roses instead.
I keep thanking Cliff for this opportunity and I have felt almost guilty at times because I'm reaping the silver lining of this terrible thing that happened to him, but yesterday he told me that he was so happy to get my latest order, which includes Creme Abundance. He said he had walked past that rose in his garden that day, noticing that it looked especially wonderful this year, and had felt sad that no one wanted it. He really is genuinely happy about his roses moving to new homes and he even has an idea for a book about them. It's only a remote possibility, but he'd like to take a trip someday, visiting some of the more than 100 gardens where his roses now live, and write about the experience.
