Roses, roses, my roses arrived..

Nice! I like the colours. No roses here (too shady) but wild roses grow along the shoulders of the road up at the schoolhouse. I hope to transplant some to the ball field sometime. (I love the scent of wild roses and have a rose hip syrup recipe I want to try sometime.)

Rose hip syrup, I'm completely ignorant about that..

A tree limb extended its growth over my seven sisters rose bush, causing it to begin to look straggly. So I moved it near the porch. It has not recovered enough to bloom its normal 50 blossoms at a time, but it looks healthy enough. I expect it to take off soon, because it did produce a single flower last week.

Interesting history on seven sisters, edgarB --
http://www.antiqueroseemporium.com/rose-106.html

Based on that, my roses are not really seven sisters. Mine are always a deep red. They came from a clipping I took just before a resident took the parent plant away from the apartments where I work. My ex lead man had told me it was that. Now I wonder what it really should be called. - Also my bush is not a climber.

Uh oh, a rose mystery...

Gorgeous choices!

That's an interesting supplier, in that they do own-root roses, which I'm unfamiliar with.

I tried growing a rose once, the damn Japanese Beetles turned all its leaves into lace and it died in one year.

Farmerman, oh my!

I've only grown some climbers in the past, but had good luck with them.
My business partner in humboldt county by the coast had seventeen rose bushes in her small yard, all good choices since they're hard to grow in that misty atmosphere (most of the roses with a lot of petals have a tough time making it.) She had a long row of Betty Priors, which I might try here if I have good fortune with this year's choices.

They're shrub roses, rather on the small side..

Betty Prior details

I'd like a bunch of Betty Priors in my parking strip.. but that could run into serious money. Then there's the thorns. So maybe only a couple with Nepeta inbetween...

you dont have Japanese beetles in NM?. ANOTHER reason to move there.

I hardly see any bugs, except for the dreaded cockroaches, which I've warded off with my evil vibes (flour, cocoa, borax) for a few years now. And I keep hearing there are black widows and scorpions but so far so good. I think I saw one japanese beetle in all my years in west LA - or maybe it wasn't one. Oh, yeah, fire ants here, but not at my house yet, knock on wood. And rattlers... haven't seen one of those either, nor pumas.

Oh lovely choices!

We have these dark pink ones, bushes are waking up here.

OK, the plants are in the ground. Time for me to start with the chants.
Tomorrow, the tomatoes... onward and upward.