I was homeless 6 years ago. I am now a home owner. I grow 16 rose bushes on my little sub division property. I pray and tend to my roses. I give each rose away to local veteran elders and their families. It has brought me so much joy. To nurture, to pray, to give. God bless everyone.
Martha Stewart- truly a woman who's winning my heart a lot, lately, because of her involvements with Snoop Dogg, plants, cooking, and Sports Illustrated.
Rather than planting them in a rectangular grid, I think it’s better to divide them up a bit into rounded shapes that you can walk around, to admire the scent and beauty of the rose. A big block looks unnatural and doesn’t allow you to adventure through the plants. If you have a smaller plot, I would recommend just having a circular bed with the roses arranged starting at the shortest ones at the edge and working your way up in terms of height as you go in.
Different roses do better in different parts of the country so do some research first. I had a nice garden of about 75 roses. New Dawn has always been one of my favorites.
I would have stretched 200 roses out in a beautiful labyrinth of pathways, so that I could enjoy each one, separately but the view together as a whole.
@@eduardo_corrochio I understand. Like Tipper Gore becoming friends with Frank Zappa, respect for a persons different attitude can overcome a lot. We all seem to benefit from the respect we show other Humans.... I was being a bit sarcastic. Please forgive me?
@@danielhutchinson6604 Nothing to forgive here, you were adding humor. Plus, I was being snarky with my "microwave" comment but it wasn't meant to be mean, just funny.
Ohhh Martha.. you shouldn’t have left out the damasks… i left my London house & ( i had made a pot of cuttings ) the man who bought the house stole my pot .. my damask cutting was in it .. i bought ..rose de ratchet .. highly fragrant & just like my old damask bush .. but still continue to curse the thieving man
Wouldn't it be nice, considering each of these is at least 30 dollars apiece...Martha, you are Spoiled and anyone attempting this is unrealistic as a "New Bed". Sponsors anyone?
Roses are (per my Grandfather) GLORIFIED WEEDS! Please let me know of ANY other flower that is a vine, with thorns, that others find attractive. It's like "One man's trash is another man's treasure." Plants are the same. People only "like" them, because other's say so. I love Dandelions and Clovers, simply because they are easy to take care of. Not to mention how much the insects love them; including Bumblebees and Honey Bees. Just because someone says "that's ugly," does NOT mean it's bad, and vice versa.
Bougainvillea is a beautiful flowering plant with thorns and many people find it attractive. Barberry is not really a flower, but a colorful shrub with plenty of thorns and they're quite popular. Thistles are nice purple flowers with lots of thorns (it's also the national flower of Scotland). When you truly love a plant, just like a human, you love it, warts and all. You don't love it because someone told you to. You love it because it generates a kind of passion in you.
The multiflora rose is an invasive where I am in NY state. Perhaps he was traumatized trying to remove that species rose? Roses come in various scents and colors, different foliage types/sizes/color. The flowers and hips can be eaten. The species roses hips, dog rose mostly I think which rambles and has a large urn shaped red hip, were used to help England have enough vitamin C during war when they had problems importing foods. Multiflora has tiny hips but lots of small little flowers. Rose hips also bring winter visual interest, and feeds animals. The scotch rose has dark purple hips which contrasts nicely with the rogusta rose large red ones. Rose hips tastes better after a frost. Don't dead head after August to try to get some to ripen in time for fall harvest and jelly/tea/syrup/alcohol making. The seeds have vitamin E and the tiny hairy which should not be consumed were used as an itching powder by small boys to torment other students. Roses are also used in cosmetics. There is a rose, blood thorn rose, Rosa sericea f. pteracantha, that mutated to grow thicker thorns which looks like red stained glass in the sun, you can see it on One green world. com . Another famous mutation is the Green rose, rosa chinesis viridiflora. It's flowers are not petals but a mutation with the sepals looking like leaves forming a flower. Purple flowering raspberry isn't widely grown, its berries are hairy, it has bristles not thorns, and make pretty purple flowers for several weeks. Sometimes berries are ripe on the plant along with opened flowers. You can see it on prairie nursery .com. They call it a shrub but it seems more like a sprawling vine on the rocky embankment by one of my barns where it grows by me.
I like roses because they're lovely to look at and they have a pleasant fragrance--- not because other people say they're nice. Some of us, just so you know, aren't merely sheep without discerning tastes.
She is out of touch with Americans. Most people don’t have a full time gardener, or big spaces. She should show people how they can just plant one or two.
She did! They showed you when they planted 1 rose bush. 😂 Get a sheet of paper, draw your landscape, consider sun 🌞 & scout 1 (ONE) location to add ONE rose bush.
"We" to Martha means "those who I pay to do this for me". And to dump "Rosetone" and bone meal and worm castings into a hole that's only 1-ft deep like she lives in a zone 8 garden with clay soil...c'mon Martha...get your soil tested before having that contest in your head...
@@eduardo_corrochio @eduardo_corrochio you're jumping to a false conclusion if you think I'm not happy, lol. All of our days are numbered, and those who can't accept that death is inevitable can never be happy. People who deny ageing and death live in Never Never Land and will never be happy in this world.
@@kingdomcome4018 My point was that people who are content in life don't go around being crummy and insulting to others (celebrities or not). Untroubled, well-adjusted folks don't feel the urge to be insulting. I suspect that Stewart understands the inevitability of the Grim Reaper, as most of us do. An octogenarian appearing on a magazine in a swim suit is not denying that death is in the future. Well, I've had enough of this. Going to sign off. Bye.
