Roses are my passion/obsession. Hubby tries to keep me away from anywhere that sells them. Even WalMart isn't safe.LOL But this year Hubby got into it too. He found 2 Gene Boerner roses for $5 at Loews. He said we had to take them as they were killing them. Then he found 3 more roses they were "trying to kill". They had blackspot (yellow leaves) so I brought them all home, spayed them with Immunox, and they're in full bloom.
I think it took us the better part of a month to do all the stuff we wanted to the back yard. I did most of the work on it because I was a stay-at-home mom.
That included tearing down the existing fencing, putting it back up, and staining it with redwood stain. But it was a nice place to sit in the afternoons, once we were done. We were going to put up an awning, but Igor got transferred to Saudi Arabia, so we had to leave it all behind. *sigh*
About the only rose I remember is the lavender one. I had a pale orange one, too. Don’t recall the names.
And yes, I remember Darks and his boulder removal!
Wuss?
C’mon, it weighed 300 pounds, and I moved it myself.