New rose bed at new house

9 years ago

Well I succeeded in moving all 45 roses to the new house last weekend. One of the beds we put in involved converting a 45x4 foot rock bed into a rose bed. Here are the before and after pics.

The roses aren't really pretty now due to all the cutting back for transplanting in may( I literally cutoff about 10 vertical feet of my Don Juan), but they and the lavender I am underplanting with seem to be doing well.

Comments (14)

charleney
9 years ago
Wow! What a project! Thanks for the pic. DETERMINATION, is what I say!
kingcobbtx7b
Original Author
9 years ago
Here is the current picture:

Roses planted from the back forward:
Lady Hillingdon Cimbing
Belinda's Dream
Chrysler Imperial
Lady of Shallot
Rosarium Utersen (Climber)
Easy Going
Ducher
Unknown light pink
Don Juan (Climber)
Lady Hillingdon (Bush)
Princess Anne
Abraham Darby
Falstaff
Zepherin Druhin
Grande Dame
Easy Living
Stainless Steel
Belinda's Dream
Legends

I believe that is all of them anyway.
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kingcobbtx7b
Original Author
9 years ago
Its amazing what you can do in a weekend. Moving the rocks to the other side of the sidewalk took forever. Then digging up and moving the roses from the old house to the new one took a while. The don juan about killed me, but that was nothing compared to the 6 year old Lady Banks that I dug up on Sunday and moved.
opheliathornvt zone 5
9 years ago
My back hurts just thinking about it. Congratulations on a job well done.
kingcobbtx7b
Original Author
9 years ago
Yeah, most of the roses are doing great so far, a few are doing a great impersonation of blackspot, though I think they may just be dropping their leaves to adjust to the stress of the move and loss of roots. Probably should have cut some of em back a little more.
bunnicula03
9 years ago
Great job! That's a lot of roses to tranplant. I'm with opheliathornvt, my back hurts thinking of all that work. Looks so much nicer with the roses, too.
AquaEyes 7a NJ
9 years ago
Wonderful! So now the obvious question -- what will you plant in the rocky border on the other side?

:-)

~Christopher
kingcobbtx7b
Original Author
9 years ago
Not anytime soon. We have a bunch of succulents we might plant. The whole front of the house has a bunch of roses as well.
ken-n.ga.mts
9 years ago
I really like it. Next spring that fence line should be covered in roses.
Holly Kline
9 years ago
Awesome! It looks like it'll be amazing when everything has had a couple of years to grow.
ms. violet grey
9 years ago
Pretty side yard. It needed to be brought to life with your roses.
I have started designing my side yard.
mzstitch
9 years ago
You are amazing to get that all done in one weekend! It looks fabulous, and I hope you post some pictures later when it has filled out and blossomed.
jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
9 years ago
Great job and so quickly! :)
seil zone 6b MI
9 years ago
Sheesh! I'm tired just thinking about all that work! It looks marvelous though! Can't wait to see pictures of it in bloom.