I miss my roses...

Hi dawnald, Great topic! I'm getting spring fever! To answer your question, hodgepodge and random colors! I think it looks more natural and less predictable. Some things I might group together, but still just a random collage in my yard! I grow roses, sunflowers, clematis, strawberries, ferns, aloe vera, asparagus, phlox and hostas. I can grow just about anything if I stick to a regime of maintenance and upkeep. The funnest way to plant a garden is to take a bunch of seed packages, dump them all in a bowl, shake and throw out to wherever the wind takes them. I then cover the area with home made compost. Talk about curiousity overkill. I get the biggest kick out of seeing what will come up where. So far, I've had pretty good luck. All the neighbors think I spent hours planting flowers, etc. I never tell them any different! thanks for a great topic! meow & ciao! ^..^

In a garden I like to see a mixture just as it would be in nature. Roses especially have such gorgeous colours that I woulld find it difficult to pick a favourite so I would definately go for all the colors available. In window boxes, which is all I can do here due to lack of space, I can do olour schemes as I wish and change them every year too.

I vote for hodgepodge, too. When I moved into this place it had a lot of roses, but they were all pink, some dark and some light, but all pink. I hate to take out flowers, but I had to get rid of some of the pink!

I prefer one color in mass in most flowers or colors that complement each other. Roses are the exceprion. I like any color of rose. I really like the climbing Angel Face and hybrid teas. I did find a use for the Robin Hood Rose to that grows to 6' tall and spreads into a shrub very useful for keeping people from using my yard as a shortcut through the neighborhood. They are very beautiful but thorny. I got tired of people cutting through my yard and not respecting my privacy or my plants so I planted a hedge of them and they work wonders and they are beautiful from spring to fall.

Hi Dawn...I love roses too and I wish that I could grow them like my grandmother used to grow them. She had a green thumb. I've never lived where they would do well but if I could grow them I would want all different kinds and different colors too. When I am given roses or flowers I always try to remember to get a picture to preserve them even longer.

I would go for several colors! The more the merrier. For me a garden is all about variety.

I think that is a very wise idea-roses make the world beautiful and especially the colors you have chosen are generally very nice.

me and roses,donot get along!!!i donot know why but somehow it doesnt grow at my place.i see that manure and soil is in right proportion,maybe the climate at my place,doesnot suit them.

I would prefer the variety. I would love lots of color. My grandfather always grew red and pink. They were actualy very beautiful beside each other. I would love roses no matter what.

I love roses, but it's too hot to grow them where I live, so I just have to be satisfied with pictures! When I lived in the UK, my mother had a bed of red and white roses in her back garden and in the front she had a mish-mash of all different coloured roses. (She loved her roses too). The red and white ones in the back had more of an impact than the different coloured ones in the front, although both were beautiful. If I wanted to make a statement, I think I would go for the uniform look of just two colours. What about planting a section of uniform colours and another section of all different colours? That way you and your hubby would both be happy!

I like tea roses with lots of scent. I like old roses, and I LOVE peace roses.

Hello dawny I must admit that I am a bit of a stickler for conformity and would probably opt for two colours only or at least if I was going to have colours they would have to match with each other. Maybe I am not a conformist then more likely I have a OCD!

Hodgepodge would be a bit of a victorian style garden and it goes great with older homes. I'd probably go with that since we have a home built in 1920. I don't have any roses at this house. I had a few with our previous home.