Thinking of planting some roses in my new/old cottage, http://smd.craigslist.org/apa/3907272842.html after I move in!

Definitely cries out for some charming roses.

Will look for some roses once I get closer to getting moved in, but lots to do before that.

How y'all doing???

Moving is HORRIBLE, especially when the movers damage furniture and lose boxes, but we LOVE our new house/town/state.

Sorry about loss and damage. Daughter may have to deal with some of that, as she's probably taking most of the stuff from husb's apartment, but as she's also having a baby, I 'assume' the loss and damage won't be too horrible for them.

I have had it in many gardens.
Tends to blackspot in our humid weather, but did it also in dry Cal. air. Worth the trouble, and is good at repeat blooming if cut back.

And I didn't want it, but had it gifted to me. It is an old heirloom Jackson & Perkins "Aloha", hardy as hell. Never any disease.

The reason that I never wanted roses is because they attract Japanese Beetles....and this one does too. I even dug it up and threw it away once when the beetles were bad. Three years later, it had grown back from some roots that I must not have gotten. So, it is here to stay, I guess.....I don't have the heart to try to destroy it again. It's will to live is too powerful.

many hybrid teas are sold at big box stores in places where they won't survive the winter!

I've had good luck with several roses, some I paid more for and some came from a big box store, they are all thriving and doing well. We give them no special care and it's basically survival of the fittest with us.

We have four Rugosa roses also and they are extremely hardy. We did have a problem this year after being here for nine years with rose chafers, something we have never seen before but the roses are blooming again so I hope there was no permanent damage.

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they also grow wonderful fruit trees. I purchased a French Petite Plum, Turkey Fig and a Blue Pearmain Apple. I didn't get my order in early enough last year for my roses, so next year will be when I start my rose collection. My fruit trees will be producing in the next year, two at the most.
http://www.greenmantlenursery.com/