Re: [Rose-list] Re: Soil Condition

**"* R* F* <a*@erols.com>**

rosenlund wrote:
> 
> Alba roses grow in some shade, but I'm not sure about heavy shade...
> wouldn't want to block the ''view"....

From what I've seen, the "view" might as well be blocked. 

I put the fish pond in so it's rectangular with slate edging left over
from the re-roofing before I bought; it's backed by the brick wall of
the garage. A good deal of sun in the afternoon. Maybe I can put in a
trellis with albas, irises, and clematises (clematoi? or is it like
fish--one word for both?)
> 
> A friend of mine has a huge garden... her husband gets them mad
> moments too... he's on his third pond and none are small.... two of
> them have bridges.  She's expanding the garden into the fields.
> 
This one is enough trouble for me. The squirrels have been domesticated
by the family (amazing, what peanuts will do) and drink from it, with
an  occasional accidental bath. The racoons come and eat the expensive
black snails I was talked into buying, dig up and eat the water plants,
and try to catch the fish.

> I'm not very good with Mini-roses, but I picked one up a month ago
> that the flowers stay darling like a tea rose instead of looking like
> carnations... it's called 'Pink Nugget' and very profuse blooming..
> as it opens up it has a nice yellowish centering. I should have
> bought more of them.
> 
> How many roses could you fit in that sunny front yard, Anthony?

Right now, there's only a dozen: I'm holding off planting more on on
side of the front walk because the Tradescant rose is showing signs of
not wanting to share that quarter of the yard. The deep red goes nicely
with the grey salvia. I also have a stand of lavendar roses, which
nearest the front door become white-flowered hedge roses. I just put in
some delphiniums (delphinia?) around the back of these; there's already
dogwoods and a couple hollyhocks. If it's possible to have only two
hollyhocks. I also put in some perennial blue geraniums. And there's
rosemary and parsley and a hedge and, oh, between the first four owners
of this house, and now me, we got a bit carried away. There's also
peonies, azaelas, and rhodendendrons (large and miniature) and I haven't
mentioned the lavender bed, have I?

In the bed near the house corner, I put in a large white obelisk, with
Zephyrine Drouhin inside and a blue-flowered clematis swarming up the
outside. And I've put in some rugosas between the neighbors and me--some
neighbors *do* need good fences to be good neighbors.

I think I can get in another half dozen roses in the sunny front yard,
on the other side of the front walk, but as the last possible batch, I
want to be careful in the choosing.  

It's all a lot of work, especially in the spring, and I have allergies,
but for some reason, it all seems worth it.

I must be a hopeless gardener-holic. I got home from work one day,
pulled a couple weeds on my way into the house, and a couple hours later
realised that I was still at it, in a suit, white shirt, and tie.

Hopelessly,

Anthony Franks
Takoma Park, Md.

> 
> Sincerely,
> ~Carleen~
> Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
> 
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