Anna Olivier - seen from new angle
Here is a pic of my Anna Olivier, from directly across the driveway. I was never able to see it from this view, as there was a giant barberry bush where I was standing when I took this pic, which was covered in serious 2 inch long thorns, so I stayed way away from it. It is gone, and my DH is turning that area into a rose garden for me (you can see the top railing of the metal deer fence he built around the garden at the bottom of the pic.) More pics of that garden later, when it is done.
Meanwhile, I thought it would amuse some of you to see AO front on, sort of gently espaliered against our house, as it is rooted right between the driveway and the house. Not a normal shape for a tea rose, but it has worked out. Unfortunately, like all of the other roses on our house, it will have to go. Before we take it down, I will try and root some cuttings. There is a plan to plant AO in the new garden across the driveway, and my DH is building an amazing structure for it to grow on. Also, we thought we would try to transplant this actual bush. It was planted 20+ years ago in an open bottomed rectangular pot about 12" high by 8 " deep and 18 " wide (which you can see the top of in the pic). I am still amazed that that worked, but it did. Of course, AO's roots have obviously succeeded in growing under the old, porous driveway, as well as sideways into nearby beds.
The plan is to cut it way way down to may be 2-3 feet above the soil level in the pot. Then, since my DH does NOT want to dig up the driveway, we will just cut it off at the bottom of the pot, which is about 1 foot high, get rid of the pot, and plant AO in the new garden, hoping there will be some roots in the pot which will allow it to survive. Then, of course, water it well daily until it either dies, or starts sprouting new growth. I have no idea whether this will work or not. If all else fails, we do have another plant of AO which I rooted from this one years ago, in a different part of the garden. So, I can keep trying to root cuttings from that plant until it works.
Jackie
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For your amusement, I found a pic of our original ancient AO from about 10 years ago, just prior to its demise.
Jackie
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rosecanadian - that is called a turret. It is, of course, a fantasy echo of the real turrets they used to have in castles. Inside, it is just sort of partly octagonal corner of the large bedroom which sticks out and has 5 windows around it. The style of our house is called "Queen Anne shingle style", or something like that. Here is a pic of the house from about 1910 (with roses!):
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This pic is of the front of the house, but not exactly the same distance/angle, etc. (once I tried to duplicate those, and realized that many of the old old pics of our house were taken from THE EXACT MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, which at the time was a dirt road with hardly any traffic - now it is a main street with LOTS of traffic, so I decided not to stand in the middle of it!). Also it was taken in early Winter.
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