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Climbing roses-help!
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[QUOTE="Lyoshka, post: 83018, member: 3602"] Mary, i think your advice is excellent. I think I will go ahead and thin the roses out (by the way, I don't think i mentioned, but that spot has two bushes planted close to each other, thus this many main canes) and cut the canes down to a manageable height to just make it look neat. However, I still have a question- i know that in a course of a season, I have seen them shoot up close to 12-15 ft. Should i just cutting them back every couple of weeks, i guess? your neighbor sounds heinous! That poor rose!!! I think you should go rescue it. He clearly doesn't want it, you should ask to dig it out and take it home. I think once the house is on the market (still 59000 things to do inside) and i can relax a bit, i may start thinning some of the plants and repotting to take with when we do sell. There is a small chance we may decide not to sell at this time (moving to be close to a charter school our boys go to, and some crap is going on that may change the school's future, at which point no sense to move there just to go to another district school), but i suppose even if we decided to stay (very small chance), it would be easier for me to manage the roses from a trimmed state. Speaking of not wanting to move... we already had a very decent backyard that backed up to woods. We had a creek back there and bc our street was never zoned, we are paying pretty steep flood insurance. Thankfully, the town got a federal grant and they just finished the project-took 90 ft of trees out, moved the creek back, landscaped the whole area with grass, wild flowers and tall grasses and did elevation studies that are getting submitted to FEMA, so we'll likely be out of the flood zone (in another year or so, when they get around to rezoning us). So now my large yard became about 20% larger, with open area in the back that is already beautiful and the grass is just starting to come in. It's going to be stunning, and I now have room for that 10X12X10ft greenhouse we'd been wanting, and apple trees, and whatever my heart desires.... and we are moving:(. The new house will be newer and bigger, but the new yard, most likely, will be small and cookie cutter and facing neighbors. i KNOW I'll never ever have a backyard like that again....:unsure: The thought of it is *almost* making me want to stay.... [/QUOTE]
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