Freedom Lives

October 19, 2003

High Hopes

This is another of the roses that is climbing on the fence. The way we did this was plant a rose on the outside of every post. Some of them have not made it.
Two did ok for a while then died. I think we have three open posts at the moment but one of them gets so much shade that I doubt we will be able to grow a rose on it.

This is actually the second High Hopes we had. The first was in the main rose garden and was the victim of deer we think. The nice people at Jackson and Perkins replaced it and we decided not to plant it in the same spot.
This one has been hit by deer also but it has managed to get big enough that its existence is no longer in question. It is about five feet high and 6 feet wide.


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