Not a Rose person, but........

I have a plan to install about 10-15 feet of split-rail fencing between the driveway and the property line with the neighbor. Then plant several roses along that fence. There is a house I pass by frequently where the owner did just that along the sideway to keep the kids from the high school across the street from cutting thru their front yard. Mine isn't really needed for that, but it would be a start on making our front yard a more private area.

Now the problem.....I have found 8 varieties of roses that I really like.
I can go with a orangy/brownish combination, inspired by Jan's Hot Cocoa rose along with a Louise Clements and and Imagine.
There are the purple colors that I really like, Blue Girl, Heirloom and Fragrant Plum.
Or the really pretty Black Beccara, Midnight Blue and Hot Cocoa combo.

I goofed and did a google search for the Hot Cocoa and found it and all the others.

I do have room on the other side of the yard for another split rail fence with more roses....then there is plenty of room along the front of the yard for still more fencing and roses. Oh,my, there is a really lovely picture starting to form in my mind
Shocked

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Hi Sharon et all,

Here is the wild rose picture I mentioned
earlier:

This is the same rose that everyone complains about. I can't get over the fussing and moaning from the farmers in our area. If you let it go, yes, it becomes a huge mass, but for me, it's gorgeous! We have many of them doing their thing in the back woods, and while they are out of control when unattended, I've been training mine for years. Very Happy

I have one that was planted at the center of a short fence. Over the years, the4 canes have grown whlie I wound them in and out of the metal bars on the fence. True, I have to whack quite a bit of it off after blooming season, but I don't, because I wait for the rose hips, which come in hoards.

Another bush is planted at the base of a telephone pole, with a grapevine trellis to support it. I'll never forget the comments when I had a yard sale one year, it was positively bursting with blooms and fragrance. Cool

Let me know if you want any of these and I'll be happy to send them for postage come spring / early summer.

Karen Marie

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