Thank you for the list! My experiments with roses involved the
two-dollar ones from Home Depot or Menards . . . at the old house,
we had a cheapie from HD that did wonderfully for two years until
we had to move the fence (when we moved the fence, it became part
of the back yard rather than the side yard and lost the afternoon
sun) and then fell over. Right now, we have the
hybrid-tea-that-should-be-red and the
floribunda-that-should-be-pink that were picked up this spring for
$1.50 at Menards. (And the thing-that-should-be-yellow I picked up
at the grocery that still needs to be planted.) The hybrid tea is
actually doing well--I haven't been allowing it to bloom because I
thought it needed some time to bush out so it's begun exploding in
size. The floribunda grew a little bit and flaked out without any
blooms so far. The "Tropicana," the third of the $1.50 Menards
roses, died without ever trying.
The-thing-that-should-be-yellow (the tag reads "yellow rose"
without any further description) really needs to be planted. But,
even in the pot, it was too large for the place where the Tropicana
died and I haven't found another location for it yet.
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