The roses coming are:

David Austin

The Ancient Mariner

PAoK

Young Lycidas

Bathsheba

Regan:

Crown Princess Margareta

Teasing Georgia

Poet’s Wife x2

All Dressed Up

Dee-Lish

Grande Dame

Queen of Elegance

Edmunds:

Francis Meilland

Fun in the Sun

Julie Andrews

Love Song

Perfume Factory

Princess Charlene De Monaco

Quick Silver

I keep going back and forth over adding Life of the Party, Veterans Honor, Marc Chagall, Vanessa Bell, and Fighting Temeraire too this spring.

Garden is lovely but I can't imagine where you're going to put 19 roses.

What a beautiful garden! I love the meandering flagstone path, and that every inch is landscaped and well cared for. I’d love to see some more pics and identification of some of the plants, SF can grow some of the most exotic things. I wouldn’t know where 19 roses would go, and I’m terrible at replacing landscaping with more roses.

Adore that stone pathway! That's what I need to do lol.

You picked some really beautiful roses. I have a lot of the ones on your list. I cant wait to see what you do with them. It should all be gorgeous!

You are going to need some trellises :) Some of those climbers will be monsters in your zone.

Will you be potting some ... I been scratching my head where will you fit 19 I got 32 coming . The struggle

Bathsheba bud

Beautiful garden, Nick! Other than pots and replacing some perennials that you don’t absolutely love with some of these rose selections, I’m not sure what else you could do. I always seem to have to pair down the size of my orders each year because of this. Let us know what you end up doing :)

19 is a lot of roses, but then I started thinking that I have a dozen on order for myself and that dozen will likely become 13, then 14 ... you know how it goes, lol.

I counted my incoming roses and I only have 12. Nick and Kenneth, you guys are gluttons! Now I feel better, thank you. Hehehe

What a beautiful garden!!! Oh wow

Your garden is gorgeous! I also love the stone path. Re space, one place to start is removing any existing plants that don’t bring you joy. Then pots, which is a dangerous game as they have a tendency to multiply....

You’re garden is so beautiful already. I love it! I see some big containers in your future. I’m in the same predicament; many roses, little space left. I’m in zone 10a, but So CA. I’m constantly amazed at how huge and fast the roses grow. I’ll look forward to seeing them in place. Be sure to show us. I’m sure it will be beautiful. You obviously have an eye for garden design. Lisa

Gorgeous garden! I would go with Berrypie's suggestion initially and pot them up to observe their colours and growth habits. I see a lot of annuals/perennials that could be cut back to make room for smaller roses. Then I'd consider pillars, trellising and an arbor to surround the garden and add vertical interest. You have a lot of space if you go vertical and keep a couple as permanent pot pets! : ))

You have a "gardener's garden," with great plant choices everywhere. The roses you have coming are all the top, proven roses....easy to grow, and great bloomers. They will all be a great pleasure to grow, and please you immensely.

Moses

You've created a paradise in your own back yard. You'll figure it out and it will be even more beautiful.

Nick I removed my pool for roses so that shows your my obssesion lol

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Thank you all for the kind words. After swearing off roses for over ten years, I caught the bug again and planted a couple of Austins a few years ago. Last winter my neighbor lost a tree changing a section of my garden from part sun to full, and I jumped at reworking that section into mixed DA beds. I've always loved to garden, but I have never spent so much time as I did this past season out enjoying it.

The picture I posted was from August with everything at its fullest, and now at the end of December with most plants pruned back, online shopping is apparently dangerous! Luckily I have another month to plan this out before plants start showing up, and I'm open to reworking some spaces/purging a few plants. A few of the Austins on my list are replacements for incorrect roses and won't need a new home, but I think my edible garden is about to not be so edible... It's the space between the lounge and the hot tub.

Pots are a slippery slope, I kept three in "temporary" ones over the season and it was waaaay too easy not having to find a spot for them.

Beautiful garden! When I lived in Baltimore my backyard was like that -- flagstone path and flowers planted everywhere. I always managed to fit in more roses, and I'm sure you will too!

BenT here are a few shots in the garden vs up from the deck. It's an eclectic mix always evolving.

My favorite weekend coffee spot.

PAoK on the left, star jasmine, Munstead Wood, Carding Mill, Abe, and Easy Does It

The view from the bench

Jubilee Celebration (my favorite DA), CA poppy, yarrow, Ambridge, African daisy, cordyline, salvia, fleabane, Meyer lemon, and many others!

Luckily I don't have a pool Kenneth! haha

So beautiful. R u in sf too nick? My yard is a mess compare to yours lol

Thanks Oliver, I probably spend too much time in mine, but it's cheaper than therapy. haha I am.

I love spending time in the garden. My favorite activity! I think lots of ppl here agree with me :)

What a beautiful little piece of paradise, Nick. I like how all the shrubbery, perennials and roses blend so easily, yet there are no weeds!

BenT, I made the commitment long ago to do a little weeding each time I'm out there so it never gets out of hand- see it, pull it! Mulch and our climate help too, I don't have rain germinating seeds year-round, and each plant is on a dedicated 1/4gal drip keeping the majority of the ground bone dry.

“Pots are a slippery slope”.

Well put, Nick.

“I probably spend to much time in mine, but it’s cheaper than therapy”.

I once told a personal trainer that her clients seemed to spend most of their sessions talking; her explanation was the same ‘cheaper than therapy’.

After carefully reading all comments in this discussion, I wonder if the answer to the question posed in the title is that the premise is false.

Definitely false!!! I look at my rose beds, cuttings, rooted cutting and pot pets almost daily and that hasn't stopped me from looking at new roses. That first picture would just set me dreaming about changes and additions! : D

Imo, if you can see mulch there's still plenty of room for plants. Lots of your plants are fairly low. I'd stick the roses right in amongst them.

Wow, I feel so virtuous reading this, lol. I only got about 7 new roses this year!

Your garden is beautiful, Nick. Can't help but envy those paved paths; that won't be happening in my garden,I'm afraid...

Nick, what a beautiful garden! I know what you mean about bumping the edibles in favor of roses! I figured edibles is what my local farmers market is for :-) I do keep thyme, rosemary, oregano, sage and keep the odd dandelion clump that hides here and there, since the leaves are wonderful blanched in very salty water for 30 seconds and then thrown in a stir fry or fried rice, but I didn’t plant those!

Floral, that's usually my thought too about plugging holes, but discovered I want to literally smell each rose bush I planted last year. That pull to inspect, touch, and smell is where my dilemma comes from, a handful of my current roses are not as easily accessible as I'd like. After a fair bit of thought, a significant rework of plants is needed if I want to address ease of access to the new roses without blocking many of the existing plants.

Thank you Bart, I'm glad I had them put in, it is a significant upgrade to the dirt path that used to go down the middle.

Stephanie, I keep my herbs and greens in pots. I've found I use them more when I have to walk past them than I did when they were planted in the garden.

Your garden is beautiful just as it is. I bet that wall of star jasmine is intoxicating when you have your morning coffee. I'm so jealous. I've tried to grow star jasmine here a number of times, and it might survive a mild winter, then get killed by a cold one.

What a beautiful garden! You could be the star of a magazine shoot. Looks vibrant and peaceful at the same time. I'm looking forward to the "after" photos!!!

I love your weekend coffee spot!

You could stick some variegated creeping lemon thyme in some of the edges along the flagstone so they can release a lemony fragrance as you brush by them.