After 3 months and many non returned calls I've finally been advised that the rose cuttings I'd given to a rose nursery last December have taken beautifully and there are lots of plants from it.20+ The plant is one I specifically wanted to bring with me from my last garden for sentimental reasons. When we bought our first house it was planted in the garden and so when we built our last house I planted a number of them again because I was so taken with the colour.
The rose in question " Scarlet Queen Elizabeth" is not available in WA and hasn't been for a number of years.
I have no idea what I'm going to do with the plants yet. My original idea was to keep 5 of it and have a feature area as the rose is very vigorous and will need a lot of pruning. Luckily it is also very tough. My last bush of this rose out lived all the other roses I've had that I had mistreated.. etc. so Can anyone give me some basic suggestions on how to start planning my garden layout? The garden is not planned to be a specifically formal garden. These roses will be pretty much the only plants that will need regular pruning apart from some of the native plants i will put in that could benefit from an occasional pruning to stop them being scraggly.
I'm not looking so much for plant advice as a suggest about who to go about setting out a layout. Should I do a scale drawing on grid paper? or otherwise?
Does anyone have any links to pics of mass plantings of a single rose bush. Where it has been used as a feature. I'm up for getting 5-10 of this specific plant. I don't think I really want more. I would have been happy to have gotten 3 from the cuttings and so am delighted to get the opportunity to buy more of them. I would perhaps like to consider getting some other different ones later. Should I consider planting them alternatively with a different one? Or keep them together away from other roses? In a line, or feature spot?