Happy Labor Day

Well, happy late Labor Day. I spent the day doing chunks of little jobs, mostly potting things, and buying a tree I don't quite have a spot for yet. I have ideas for a spot, but no actual spot, and have to find one this week. I was rather violent toward one of my rose bushes today. I have two miniature rose bushes. I got them as those little rose plants the supermarkets sell in early spring. I have a pink and an orange. I have one planting bed I really like, and started with shade plants, then didn't plan and this year didn't really get to see any of my favorite plants because everything in the front is now too tall. So, one of the rosebushes came out. A real advantage with miniature roses is they are on their own rootstock, not grafted on to another. I have several roses that obviously the graft died, and the rootstock took over. Does not happen with miniature roses. As I was very impatient about it there was yanking rather than digging, and I ended up with 4 plants. Now that I look, I started with 4 plants, and they were much too close together. Now each got trimmed a bit, and potted up, and hopefully will survive. Two will likely have to be trimmed more, I left too much and the tops started wilting from my less than kind care. Start of next year I have a full size rosebush I need to remove from the same planting bed, and move my clematis to it's spot. I also have the other miniature rose. I might just keep them in large pots rather than planting them back out anywhere. They attract aphids in amazing quantities each spring. The flowers are worth it.