ROSES

I only know the names of a couple of the roses. Most came with the  house,or started growing wild, for some reason. (Probably liked all the fertilizer pellets that are spread around). Some were gifts, and I lost the tags. Some just seem to grow themselves.........

                                     

This one is a climber. Climbs up the side of the house at the front. I cut it back a lot this year, so it only grows to the eaves. Instead of over the eaves onto the roof.

    
                 And then there's this dark red rose. The Black Bacarra. I actually bought this one a few years ago. Like dark velvet.

 Smells like chocolate. .......

 Roses seem to take a lot of work. But I don't do anything to them. I use Safer's Soap as an insecticide and the Safer's products seem to work well enough. The soap penetratesthe outer shell of bugs and  they disappear . 

Some roses I grow in huge pots, cause I've run out of ground.Sometimes I spray Bobexx on the roses. Deer LOVE roses, and the Bobexx stinks of mint and pepper and other assorted stuff organic stuff that they do NOT like.  NOthing like coming outside and finding all the roses snipped off their stalks.....

                                       

   

   Bobbexx works on all your flowers and plants.All natural repellent. Bunnies don't like Bobbexx either.  Keeps them all at bay.

                                     

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from concrete? It learned to walk without having feet..." ( fromTupak Shakur)

                           

"An idealist is one, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage,concludes that it makes a better soup" ( H.L. Mencken)

                                         

  Something else that seems to help roses  is spraying them with liquid fertilizer, greatly watered down of course.

 I don't do that anymore, because after a while you get the stuff on the walls of the house, and the deer start licking the siding.......

 Hence no need to power wash your siding anymore. Just get the deer to get fertilizer happy, and they may stay  from the roses.....