More roses in the ground and I was good and didn't order anything

 This was a bit annoying. Yesterday, these roses looked beautiful. They were down in my lower section of potted plants, sitting in mulch with a water system on them. They were a bit too big for their pots, but I didn't want to up pot them because they were going in the ground this week. I got my new dirt dropped off today. Now I can finally get back to planting in the new beds that need amending for planting.

What I didn't realize is that it was very briefly very windy yesterday. I work from home, but I must have been in a meeting or something as I completely missed that we had a lot of a wind. Apparently, this was before the irrigation kicked on for the day and I had skipped the irrigation cycle yesterday because we got a couple inches of rain the day before. But, these guys are all roots in these pots now, so they dry out fast. The root to dirt ratio is just way off.

So, yeah. I would have planted pretty plants had I planted them yesterday. OR if I would have noticed they were tipped over and watered them manually today.
Instead, I planted these uglies.





Again, so much annoyance. I'm sure they will bounce back fast, but they were nice yesterday. Oh well, at least these are all the ones that were prone to tipping over. The others are all either short enough that they don't catch enough breeze to tip over or they are ones that grew so vigorously that I simply had to put them into a 3 gallon pot for now.

It's crazy how well these have grown though. Most of these are Buck roses that I got from Roses Unlimited a couple of weeks ago. It's so obvious right out of the box that they are better adapted to my yard. I have some fussier roses that overwintered in my yard and haven't put on as much growth all season as these things have done in 1 gallon pots in a couple of weeks.

I continue to tighten my spacing up in the rose garden. I'm zone 5a and at this point I'm admitting to myself that I mostly won't have large roses. I planted 36" apart on center for most of my roses- but, they aren't even close to touching and it's middle of July. Only exceptions really are the Canadian Explorer roses and Therese Bugnet who is turning into a sprawling large shrub. It's okay though- I'm solarizing a long line a long the edge of my yard for ramblers and hardy large shrub roses. I'll move the roses that do get large onto that row with bigger spacing and keep the rose garden to my more timid little guys.. lol

I have 2nd year roses blooming 12" high off the ground. I was really hoping that I would be able to smell them with less bending this year- but, I think only the hardiest ones will get tall enough to smell easily.

I planted yarrow here and there in my rose garden- unfortunately it is extremely happy there and got a lot bigger than the seed packet indicated it would. I keep trimming it back because it's crowding some roses- but, hey, now I know yarrow loves my yard so much it gets much bigger than indicated.

I planted chamomile last year and now it is popping up everywhere in a very 'mint apocalypse' fashion. The plants are easy to spot and easy to pull, but I accidentally infested my whole veggie garden with it as my garden dirt pile that went into that garden was near my potted chamomile. Thankfully, very fringey and easy to spot and easy to control if pulled before it flowers. BUT yikes, I recommend growing that one in a pot on a concrete patio like you would mint.