Welcome. Sounds like you know how to maximize space. I bet it's beautiful. I call roses the jewels of the garden.
Is the rose in the photo Jude theObscure? I planted him in June of 2011. The smell is divine. For me he is a slow grower..that's ok. Worth the wait.
Take care. Happy gardening.
Jeannie
Just received 2 apple trees..Liberty and Chehalis. Expecting 2 more apple trees. Then my tiny orchard will be complete. Gardening is such fun. What kind of fruit trees do you grow?

Welcome! Your garden sounds lovely - do you have any pictures of whole areas of the back or the front yards that you could post? If not, please take some in the Spring to post on here - gardening in a small space is an art, and we would love to see yours.

I have only 1/3rd of an acre lot, and much of it is taken up with the house and a long driveway, but sometimes that seems like too much space, like now, when I am just getting around to pruning our 100+ roses.

I live in the SF Bay area - lots of folks on here are from CA - are you in No CA or South? Looking forward to more pictures of your garden -

Jackie

Hi, I'm glad you've made it over the to antique side also. You might even find that some of the older roses meet your specifications. Not all of them are huge, such as the polyanthas and the smaller Bourbons, and they can be very rewarding. One rose I love is La France, which for me is growing slowly, but with wonderful and very fragrant large flowers. I'm glad you garden organically and use bands, both of which many of us here do. I hope you'll enjoy the people and the information you'll find here.

Ingrid

Welcome to the forum. The more, the merrier. Warning: we are pretty dangerous to hang around if you really don't want to fill up your front garden.

Rosefolly

Welcome! it's always good to meet another rose lover.
Melissa

Jeannie 2009, the rose in the picture is Ambridge Rose. My Jude the Obscure gets very leggy even though I prune very heavily in the winter. After all of the hype about him, he is not one of my favorites.

Jacqueline3, I will try to post a picture of my back yard. Again, ignore the date as I don't know how to change the thing. I am in central CA.

Ingrid--would love to see pictures! Sounds lovely!

Rosefolly--I am starting to do just that! I ordered 3 Munstead Woods, 3 Pretty Jessica's and 3 Princess Alexandra of Kent. I started three Brother Cadfael's on their own root in the front as well. I will see if any of them take. If so, then I will probably start a Lavendar Crystal (mini) on its own root out there too. I have been successful in growing that one on its own root in the past. Love the purple color and it does very well in our heat.

You garden is very petty! Welcome to the Antique Forum.

Darn! I didn't mean petty. I meant pretty.

You may be nuts, but that's a gorgeous garden! Thank goodness the two aren't mutually exclusive. Can't wait to see the front!!

Sherry

Here is a link that might be useful: If only sweat were irrigation...

I second Sherry. It's really beautiful. Perhaps some of the concrete pavers might be taken up to make room for yet more roses? Just kidding....We'll stop at almost nothing.

Ingrid

Love your back yard, must. Looking forward to seeing the front yard. We also like "in progress" pics, so feel free to post those also.

If you post through GW, you can only do one pic per post--although you can post multiple times.

What many of us do is get a free account at photobucket.com and upload our pics there for storage. Then we can copy the HTML CODE and insert it in this forum's message box--and insert as many HTML CODES here as we desire. (You can type before and after each insert also.)

Either way, we promise to enjoy your pics.

Kate

What a lovely, romantic walled garden you have! There is one plant hanging over the wall on the right with a dark pink bloom. I can't tell from the pic what it is - is it a rose?

Looking forward to more pictures -

Jackie

Beautiful garden!Love your mixture of pots and in ground roses. Your water feature is lovely.It looks like a restful beautiful place to it and take in your hard work! Lesley

Jac, that is a rose bloom from my neighbor's yard. He has, I think a climbing Joseph's Coat--at least that is what it looks like to me.

Thank you all for the very nice compliments and how to upload photos. I am trying to set up a photobucket album but for some reason, the pictures are not uploading into photobucket. UGH! I do have a better picture of the back somewhere and will try to post it. I know it is hard to see the backyard because it looks so far away in the picture.

OK, I tried this before and my message went poof and disappeared. Here it is again. Thank you all for your help. My MacAfee is giving me fits with the photobucket. The first picture should be a rose I got when Roger Moore (I think that was his name) retired from Sequoia Nursery when he was 99 years old. It is a large flowered mini rose that climbs to be over 15 feet tall. I wish I could remember its name. Had to threaten to SP it in order to get it to grow.
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Here is Peach Blossom--a DA rose I have on the other side of my arch.
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