Oh My, are the Roses Blooming..With or Without My Help...

I have been gardening for a little over two years now so I am not the voice of experience when I say these things.  But unlike last year...the roses have really taken off, despite the fact I have yet to weed, prune, feed, irrigate, or deadhead.  I ponder if it was the rain, or the cold, or the fact they are more established or what?

In looking at this time last year, perhaps they are on time.  The majority of these roses were from bare root last year.

This is the picture of what the back yard looked like in 2012

This is what it looked like in 2013

And the following pictures is what it looks like now.

The knockouts were by far the first one's to take off.  I never have grown them from bare root.

Bottlebrush...I so terribly need to move these

 Pinata rose that I grew from bare root purchased at Dollar General

 Another Dollar General bare root purchase.  Joseph's Coat.

 Yes the garden needs to be weeded terribly.  The next day I cut the tops off of the mexican heather

 Knockouts were the first to take off

Green Ice

Sunny Knockout

Double Knockout

Peach Drift

William Baffin finally bloomed

 Very pretty flower

 Rock N Roll

Not sure

This was a dollar general bare root that was labeled charisma...I don't think that is what this is.

 Ebb Tide

Whatever this Charisma rose imposter it...it has multiple colors and definitely a climber

Don Juan

More Knockouts

Electron

I belive this is Tiffany

I know this does not look like much but this bush is my prettiest read rose.  It was supposed to be a Promise Rose.  I don't think it is.  It maybe Chrysler Imperial.

I don't know what these rose bushes are.  When mom bought them for me it looked like a tree.  They are definitely ogr I think.

I have well over 100 roses in this back rose garden.  So the garden is just getting started.  It's probably only at 40% blooms

Trimmed up around the back porch

Trimmed down the mexican heather

Removed the weeds

 The garden is starting to look nice as I begin weeding it.  After that pruning feeding, etc...

It rained over 3 inches in a few hours last night.

Journal Notes...Fall Feeding of Roses

Fall is starting to approach.  I haven't fed the roses in a while so I opted to feed them a full dose of Bayer Rose Care.  However, full dose I have learned depends on the rose.

Fall brings dry weather and beautiful flowers...that is why I am going to call my gardens..(one day) the Gardens of October....  Yesterday, I watered a lot of plants that I do not traditionally water because it has been so dry, but it's still hot.  I fed the roses around the house, zone 4, and zone 6.

The climbers are quite tall on the pillar.....my poor zinnia look very diseased...I would cut them but the hummingbirds and butterflies still visit them daily.

The climbers on the side of the house

I am learning to love  Joseph's Coat.

This Don Juan has shot up 7 feet out of nowhere...I suppose the drip irrigation has helped a great deal...I will need to peg shortly before a storm breaks it.

I use two watering buckets.  One a full size rose bush..I use 2 oz per bucket, and smaller bush 1.5 to 1 ounce, and on a distressed rose bush....5 ounce.  I water two at a time and use the lighter green to remember which has the lighter amount, should the two plants in question, vary in dose.

A bottle holds 32 oz.  I have learned from Nell and others..that you should make sure the rose is hydrated before feeding..not to hurt the roots...not a bad idea to water afterwards either....my roses have been blooming like crazy since I put the irrigation system in....I should really see a show after this feeding.

Green ice is a smaller rose plant so I used only  1 ounce.

Hardly see it but this knockout is large so I used a full 2 ounces

This distressed rose is a barely alive...I used only a touch.

The bottle reads that it feeds up to 6 weeks.  We don't have our first frost until around Thanksgiving..so I may opt to feed once more at the end of the month.