Roses

Saturday the Mr. and the Mrs. dug holes for 18 roses, transplanted 6 and planted 12 bare root roses.  The bare roots were fancy and expensive from David Austin Roses.  The digging was hard, the planting less difficult and we used up all of my topsoil bags.  There are still some manure bags left.  This took about 4 solid hours.  The Mr. went out to buy some much while the Mrs went to buy dinner.  Today (Monday) the Mrs. heaped mulch and watered the 18 roses and planted a Currant "cherry" at the corner of berry row.

The rose varieties are in order of planting left to right from the street:
Mr. Lincoln, Jubilee Celebration, Tahitian Sunset, Pink Simplicity, Mr. Lincoln, Pink Simplicity, Carding Mill, Jubilee Celebration, Jubilee Celebration, Carding Mill, Pink Simplicity, Mr. Lincoln, Pink Simplicity, Carding Mill, Mr. Lincoln, Yellow Tea, Pink Simplicity, Brother Cadfael

Pink Simplicity (tea rose) and the unidentified yellow tea-rose are transplants from elsewhere in the gardens.

Tahitian Sunset and Mr Lincoln are tea roses from David Austen.

Jubilee Celebration and  Brother Cadfael are English roses from David Austin and Carding Mill are Own Root English roses from David Austin.

The Mr. Insisted on the red Mr. Lincoln Tea roses and the Mrs. only chose Brother Cadfael because of the name  and color.  She really wanted to get Lady Emma Hamiltons and Christopher Marlowes as for their names as well but the Marlowes weren't pretty enough to make the harsh cut and the Lady Emma Hamiltons are peach and there were too many peaches in the order already.

The Mrs. thinks that Starlings really needs a "Mrs. Miniver" rose but can't find where to buy one.