By Lisa @Privilege
High WASPs are quite fond of roses. All that Anglo-identification, as it were.
That said, we’re fairly specific in our preferences. On the one hand, rows of roses in dedicated planting areas, special soil, specific watering scheme, and correct distance each from the other. On the other, rose bushes amongst untamed plantings, intertwined and ignored.
I have plantings of both sorts in my front yard. Wait. Why my front yard? It gets sun. Roses, no matter your heritage, your culture, your intent, will not negotiate sun.
Here’s my setup. New white roses in a bed, a peach shrub rose, and a small, whiny, red, sometimes-it-shows-up-sometimes-it-doesn’t climber, back against the wood fence.
I planted the white ones in a bed because it seemed... More...
