My dream is to grow an incredibly beautiful rose garden. I started this year but I want to be very selective?

with my plants. I bought 3 David Austin "Mary Rose" plants. The flowers I'm choosing are namesakes of people I love that have passed on, a "Grandma's Garden" so to speak. My question? Can I add a few new plants each year until the garden is developed or do you think it should be established at one time?

My dream is to grow an incredibly beautiful rose garden. I started this year but I want to be very selective?
It's just fine to do it little by little. That is how I have put together my rose collection. I have found over the years that it pays to buy only quality roses that have been bred to resist disease. David Austin are great roses and there is a company called heirloom roses that breed their own roses. Both these breeders specialize in own root roses which is optimal as well. I would warn you about the Hybrid Tea. They are beautiful but they are very disease prone, very fragile, and tend to have a short life span. They also tend to loose their graft unions. Anyhow, if you are interested here is the site for Heirloom roses. I purchases four of their roses just this year.


http://www.heirloomroses.com/cgi/browse....


Happy planting
Reply:i'm not sure of the answer,


but too bad you don't have email, I have found some roses that are not known in the US of A





i'm currently trying to get them to take root, I will try to post photos later
Reply:No you can do it a bit at a time, that's what I'm doing. I've filled the spaces with cheap but pretty perennials and other shrubs, and pull them out as I find a rose I want. I've been at it 4 years and nearly done. I think this way you put more thought into placing each one, you look at the garden in summer and think, "Hmm, a peach rose would set off that purple one just right.." or some such thought