garden: roses moved
Feb. 13th, 2004 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianDefinitely should have done this sooner, but I finally moved the three warm-colored roses to their new home. I cleared a bed off the side of the porch that didn't have one yesterday (okay, the side that didn't have one and also is not paved, picky people), and dug in some "Clay Buster" organic stuff. It wasn't too terribly clayey right there, but it was some, and the roses will like the mulchy bits.
Two out of the three roses had name tags buried deep in the grass or ivy around them. The little red one that was marooned in the lawn is labeled "Climbing Altissimo", so I made sure to put it by the porch upright instead of at the other end of the bed as I'd vaguely planned. The yellow didn't have a name tag, and I don't really remember it well enough to find a lookalike. The apricot-orange one, which doesn't seem to be sold much any more, is "Shreveport". I'll take pictures of them myself, too, assuming they deign to bloom. They were still bare of root, so I expect they'll do well, even if they did lose a bit of root length. (There was nothing to be done; Shreveport's roots had gotten in among the quince suckers. I saved most of them.)
Two out of the three roses had name tags buried deep in the grass or ivy around them. The little red one that was marooned in the lawn is labeled "Climbing Altissimo", so I made sure to put it by the porch upright instead of at the other end of the bed as I'd vaguely planned. The yellow didn't have a name tag, and I don't really remember it well enough to find a lookalike. The apricot-orange one, which doesn't seem to be sold much any more, is "Shreveport". I'll take pictures of them myself, too, assuming they deign to bloom. They were still bare of root, so I expect they'll do well, even if they did lose a bit of root length. (There was nothing to be done; Shreveport's roots had gotten in among the quince suckers. I saved most of them.)
