My Rose Garden


eventually serve the same purpose. That arbor shows up as a faint rectangle opposite the lower corner of the greenhouse.

My lath house is almost impossible to see in that small photograph, but it is more visible in the photo below. You can clearly see the small lawn next to the house. My Rosa alba 'Semi-Plena' is at the bottom of the photograph and the lath house is on the opposite side of the lawn. The house is 28 feet wide. There is a 14 foot wide addition onto the end of the house, in the upper left corner of the photograph. The lath house is also 14 feet wide. The pale pink flowers on the large climbing rose belong to 'New Dawn'. I have also planted 'New Dawn' on both sides of the wooden arbor over the gate between the lawn and the garden (next to the bottom corner of the house).

I have a number of climbing roses growing on the lath house. This is because I can plant them inside the lath house to protect them from the deer. I have a 'Climbing Peace' which is at least 20 years old and I just planted a 'Climbing pink Peace' this year. I have two 'Madame Alfred Carriere' roses which were saved from the dismantled rose garden - I wanted them more than any of the other roses. I also have a climbing form of 'Old Blush' and a Rosa banksiae lutea - the latter may swamp the lath house eventually, but I am hoping that it won't be that happy in my garden.

I am hoping that by having roses on both sides of the lawn, that the lawn will feel like it is in the middle of a rose garden. I know that roses need a lot of spraying and that they don't add much beauty during the winter months, but they add so much romance to a summer garden; especially during the month of June. For me, June is about roses.

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