I am surprised you can move roses like that in hot weather. I would have thought you had to wait until they were dormant. I learn something every day here at Gardenweb.

I bought two different Bayer products yesterday at Lowes ; the Japanese Beetles are on everything. All they had was the hose-end type spray and a mix and pour on with fertilizer. I got both. I didn't really like the idea of the hose end thing. Is that what you use?

Be sure to show us the "new" locations with the roses as soon as you get time.

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Glenda, with a large enough root ball and enough water, you can move anything, anytime, I say. I just don't have the time to put into watering things that much in my yard.

Sounds like Rita is doing some major undertakings in her garden. I need to be doing some of the same in mine this fall. I've got several shrubs I want to relocate. Some for sun/shade reasons, others for aesthetic reasons. Either way, I wish you luck, and be sure to post pictures. There can never be too many rose pictures. :)

Acatually, there has been no hot weather here. A very cool rainey spring and it doesn't seem to be changing. If possible early spring before they have leafed out or just thereafter is preferred but honestly, roses are tough and the weather now is not all bad for moving.

Last year I moved some roses around in July and it was fairly hot then. Not the best time but those roses are all fine now (although they did look aweful for along time until they recovered). But they were just regular sized roses, not the monster shrubs that the two were yesterday.

Even the two 4 foot roses I really had to have the help to do. They had to go in there planter things in the front yard and needed a big hole for the two together. It would have been too difficult for me to work in there. Plus they both needed to be held upright and in place while the soil was slowely put back in and firmed back in place. That was a three people project too.

glenda- I use the hose end sprayer this year but last year didn't. I don't know if the mix with fertilizer you are referring to is the Bayer product but if it is then let me warn you that it does not work on Japanese beetles. Do you have many in your garden and on your roses?

Will be taking some pictures later, no time during all that was going on yesterday.

I took some pictures but not downloaded yet. I don't know how well everything will show up. Poor CAREFREE DELIGHT has all her blooms clusters heavily drooping and any flowers which were blooming are gonners. Thats not a surprise to me and I figgure I will just cut it back some. One it settles in, it will rebloom I am sure.

I watered, watered, and watered some more today. It figgures the one time I would like to have had rain overnight there was none.

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Here is a picture of Carefree Delight in its new home. You really can't tell were Carefree Delight ends and the rose next to it begins. You could tell better yesterday as the blooms were easily seen on Carefree Delight but today the bloom clusters are sagging and the flowers are shattered so its difficult to make out which is the rose I am referring to just from the picture.

It did rain late afternoon again today, maybe 6 PM or so. Good for all my transplants even if I did already water.

Will post more pics tomorrow, late now going to sleep.

What an undertaking that must have been. DH and I moved a 4x5 shrub earlier in the spring and I was really amazed at just how heavy that thing was. I move boulders without much consideration but this thing was a beast. I can assure you that it did not have thorns however! What about your bushes, did they have thorns to contend with as well?

I am looking forward to seeing your pictures tomorrow.

Sure, lots of thorns on Carefree Delight and all the others too. I have one thornless rose out of my 200 roses and it just happens to be the one going up the cherry tree next to Carefree Delight. It did take a long time to do but I was more concerned with doing it right and the end result. I didn't want them to try and rush.

Here are the promised pictures of the things moved-

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Lets start by showing the two shrubs moved. Fortunately they are not large shrubs but the guys had to do some work on the hill before they got planted.

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Now since the shrubs were out of the planter, two roses were moved in.

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Showing a longer view of the area of the front yard. The roses are the lighter colored ones in the second of the half round planters.

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Seeing it all from another view.

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A big empty spot in my sidyard rose garden from those roses that moved out front.

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And now here is the rose moved into the rear of the garage. Poor thing was looking the worst of everything that was moved.

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And here is the bigger empty spot were both Carefree Delight and the Gift used to be in my sideyard. They came even further out from those landscape blocks just put there now. You can see the dirt areas were things were dug up.

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It looks quite different along that area of the yard as when you stood here you used to see those big roses.

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Closeup of the area updtsairs with the moved Carefree Delight.

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Landscape shot of the bed upstairs including Carefree Delight.

And thats it for the big rose moving project the other day. But I plan to move more roses.

The bigger projects of the needed moves are my approx 5 foot tall Bonica shrub rose that is going to go in the third of the planter boxes in the front yard. That would be directly in back of the two Charles Aznavour roses there now.

The next thing planned is to move my two Flower Carpet Appleblossom Roses, one into the back yard and the other repositioned from were it is now. They are not very tall but they spread out alot. They big deal will be tying them up and then lifting the spreading canes so they they can be dug because as they are now, you could not put a shovel thru them.

So far its rained again most nights, which is good. I have also watered them even if it rained because I know they need all the water they can get.