zuzu said:It is amazing how some roses can survive the worst of care.
That's exactly what people say when they come to see my garden!!
I have a few roses in the far reaches of the yard who get no care, (Rosarium Uetersen) and still grow beautifully.
Others are in prime spaces, get by-the-book coddling, and stubbornly refuse to grow. (I'm looking at YOU, Koko Loko, Red Intuition)
I remember my mom taking me back to the house she lived in as a child. It was long abandoned, way off any paved road, deep in the Ozarks. Red and yellow roses bloomed without anyone there to admire them. We found peonies, iris and phlox, too. She said her mother either got cuttings from friends or sent off for mail order plants. No nurseries around there. My grandma and her sisters were pretty good at starting a plant from the littlest cutting or division.
