Ingrid

I am not a good enough photographer to get a good shot of what I see. I need to try, and I hope others do too, because to me that is what gardening is -- everything pulled together.

Thanks,
Sammy

rosemeadow gardener - your roses are beautiful, especially your tree roses! Wow! What is the tree rose in the last picture? Now I'm going to have to find space for one more tree rose or two! Thanks, guys! lol

Looking forward to seeing more gardens. Unfortunately, I can't post any pictures - my daughter 'borrowed' my camera!

Ingrid

I'm looking forward to seeing more pictures of your roses, and I'm sure others are too.

Ingrid

I had a lilac bush cut down which opened up some sun way in the back which means I can plant behind the garage. Something suitable for my zone like rosemeadow did might look nice.

Now this is pathetic compared to everybody else and still a work in progress. My front walk. Next three taken today, love my alyssum, two Dark Lady blooms (not quite herself after a comeback from BS) and one Pat Austin, not bad for Nov 6 in my zone. Bottles are covering delphiniums I set out trying to buy them some time for roots to settle deeper without tops freezing off. Empty spot rear right lilies died back and cleared away. The pots I hope to have some Ultima Morpho pansies next spring. Cleaned up a lot, rest can wait until spring.

The last two photos I took about 2 weeks ago & posted on another forum, will share. Cimifuga bloomed for the first time this year, and my new little Rozanne Geranium. R. planted after Sep 15, got to see one bloom.

All leaves mulched now so lawn looks green and neat; leaves placed in bin for mulch next year.

I have high hopes for Rozanne, and it was a little pricey, but it would be really nice underplanted with some of the gorgeous roses people have posted here, think I've seen similar plants like that here.

I know there have been troubles with bad fires & smoke in Australia, but it was a joy to see your beautiful roses and glad you got enough rain. I'd ask for an ID, but they probably won't grow here. That red one covered in blooms is to die for. It looks like you live in the country and have plenty of room, really nice place there, different from Ingrid's but each almost a paradise in their own way.

For those with 'weepers' or umbrella-shaped roses, do any of you have them in say zone 8 with snow - was wondering if snow would break the tops?

Ingrid

How about a "before" shot? This is what I started with!

Here's a picture from last year, the roses look so tiny. They are all taller than the window now. I need to prune harder in springtime. I also dug out that little bit of lawn to save water for the roses.

The front slope that is really dry has stuff like this:

And 'Belindas Dream' when we had dense fog a couple of days ago. You can see the horizontal habit she has from her rambler parent, and the big fat pink flowers she inherited from her other parent, 'Tiffany':

More of the dry front slope:

But roses are still my favorite. (of course!)

I don't have any photos of my new garden yet. I was going to post some of my old garden in Cornwall, but I can't upload them from photobucket!

The weeper is New Dawn

You will have to forgive the last photo as my camera has
lazy lens covers that don't open properly and I forget sometimes to open them right up.

Gail, I'm so glad you posted some pictures. Your Belinda's Dream has to one of the most gorgeous I've ever seen. What a transformation from your bare plot (except for that gorgeous house!) to everything you've achieved.

rosemeadow-gardener, thanks for the additional beautiful pictures. I especially like the fountain/birdbath? which makes such a great statement. It looks as though you have lots more room to plant and for your existing plants to grow and in a few years it will be awesome.

Jon's garden is beyond words to describe and I'd shoot myself if it weren't for the fact that it has to rain a lot to achieve than kind of overwhelming abundance, and I don't like a lot of rain. It's just poetry.

Ingrid

Our front yard was an unbroken expanse of lawn spruced up by a pathetic row of marigolds.

We started digging up the lawn...

And finally last spring things started to come together

And now we just watch the roses grow and fill out.

Our back yard is still work in progress... When we moved we discovered an old Cecille Brunner slowly dying for lack of water and severe root competition.

However, she is one tough rose, and after a year of watering and feeding we were rewarded.

There is no stopping her now...

We inherited a row of HT bushes along the driveway. Our neighbors' property is behind it. The roses had no irrigation, and were not in good shape. They were overgrown with weeds too, and the remodeler dumped some rocks right over the weeds to spruce it up.

I slowly removed the rocks by hand, carrying as much as I could (took weeks). Then we weeded, mulched, ripped out the least promising roses, and planted a row of black stem pittosporum trees for privacy.

Now we water, feed and watch the roses grow:-)

Sorry for such a long post:-)

Masha

The first pic is a backyard scene. The second pic is the front yard, showing the roses with companions. I especially like dianthus.

Krista, your roses are absolutely lovely and the dianthus is the perfect companion plant for the roses. I love the different colors of pink and especially the purple rose in the rear of the first picture. Can you tell me the name of that rose? I really adore purple roses.

Ingrid

This is my old garden in Cornwall. I haven't taken any of my new garden yet.
Daisy

Daisy

These pics of parts of my garden have been posted here before (I think), but this seems like a good time to dust them off and post them again.

This is the rose border that greets guests by my driveway. The roses are a mix of Hybrid Musks, Noisettes, Hybrid Perpetuals, and Portlands, with a few Teas and Chinas and a Shrub or two thrown in just-'cause.

This is what the far end of the Rambler Fence looked like in late May ... rest assured, it's almost a thicket right now. I will thin and train the roses during the winter, while the leaves are off and the structure is easier to see. (That's my greenhouse WAY in the background)

Here's a shot of the Rose Field from April (I think) of this year. This photo makes it easy to see how I laid out the garden in rows like a veggie garden ... the aisle down the center now has an arch on each row to create a tunnel. Everything has grown unbelieveably since this was taken.

I have a lot more photos of befores and afters in various posts on my blog ... the photos aren't on PhotoBucket, so I can't link to them for this post. If you have some time and want to see, the link is below. Yesterday's post was full of white rose portraits ... blogging and showing garden photos seems like a decent way for me to get through winter. (Tomorrow's 'Flowers on Friday' post will feature an unbelieveable garden that I visited this past weekend. I'm not being dramatic ... it was THAT good.)

Who's next?

Connie

Anyway, here are a few of my garden:

I'm usually so focused on uploading rose photos to Photobucket that I miss the landscape shots. Will have to remedy that this season.

Sue

Where have all these marvelous gardens been hiding??? Thank you so much, everyone, what an exciting treat this is. In a way these gardens are humbling but they're also an inspiration and a taste of what is to come in a few more years for those of us with less mature gardens. This has been such a happy and uplifting post, and a testament to what dedicated gardeners can achieve. I hope there will be more gardens to come, the more the merrier.

Ingrid

Many bottles of aspirin later, it's changing all the time and I don't have a good picture, but here is is in its weedy glory from this past summer. Charles de Mills is blooming in the lower right corner, James Mason is back against the fence, Hansa and r. rugosa "alba" are kind of in the center. There are probably close to 200 roses crammed in now--still babies for the most part.

And some of the beds are getting to be kinda pretty, I think:

A few roses I cannot identify and would like to look up are:

Hartwood - what is th rose on the far right that lokos like a tree rose (I believe i asked you before but cannot find the post)

Lorielf - is that climber on the right American beauty or something else entirely?

Mashamcl - what is the rose in the 7th photo of your post (pink and yellow blend)

Seattlesuze - the whitish rose on the front left looks like an impressionist painting - which rose is this please?

And Krista what is the front right mauvish rose please?

I am sure I left some out.

Thank you for sharing your gardens - they alllook beautiful.

Please keep adding photos! It is great seeing them in a setting with the whole plant and growth habit.

Ingrid, thank you for your compliments. The roses on most of those pictures are grafted HTs and Austins, which accounts for their fast growth and huge flowers:-). Your roses look pretty big and healthy to me.

Krista, Purple Pavement is one of my favorite roses too! Mine has begun to sucker:-(, I might have to start giving them away...

Vettin, it is Sheila's Perfume, very fragrant and a good bloomer.

Masha

I am never satisfied with the plantings, so I don't have many landscape-type photos. My pictures seem to be mostly of rose blossoms, cats, and children. The garden is a well-established, messy one, but many of the roses are new and small.

I live on a hill that is difficult to mow, so I planted this garden on it (The rose is Paulii):

Going up the steps on the hill (Ghislaine de Feligonde):

Enormous mock orange:

A few from the back, close to house(tiny but floriferous Wasagaming):

Back park of my narrow lot. I just shovel pruned this Will Scarlett, maybe I shouldn't have

Veilchenbleu on shed near veggies:

These pictures were obviously taken over the summer, since
my growing season ended awhile ago. Come take a walk in my garden with me.....

Celeste

Ingrid

Here is my koi pond, my husband built it by himself, i stood by and wondered what kinda disaster it would be, but its quite lovely!

Next year i hope to have rose garden pics for you!

Maureen, my Veilchenblau is a stick right now ... I want it to grow up to look like yours.

Celeste, unbelieveable!!! that's all I can say now, 'cause I'm drooling on myself.

I see so many creative people here, with gardens that I would love to visit and get lost in. (the California gardens remind me of visiting my SoCal relatives) Until I take to the road, I'll comfort myself by enjoying each and every photo here ... anyone else have photos to share?

Connie

P.S. If you want to see some photos of a garden I visited last weekend, I posted photos of it in my blog entry from yesterday.

Celeste

Ingrid

Lois in PA

Brenton

Part of the back garden

Garden from front porch. The rose is Apricot Nectar.

Rose garden looking towards the house

A closer view

Always my best floribunda - Blueberry Hill

Blueberry hill is so pretty, my list of roses to look for keeps getting longer! :)

The rose along my path that appears to be white is actually the pale pink of New Dawn. Mme. Plantier is in the background and there are Gallicas and English roses as well as Aloha also in the photo.

Sue