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As of December 2021, the backyard’s roses have been reduced to just four:
Golden Celebration – warm yellow shrub, 1992
Monsieur Tillier – carmine red tea, 1891
Chrysler Imperial – true red hybrid tea, 1952
Bolero – white blush blend shrub, 2004

In the re-landscaping project, these four went to grow in my aunt’s garden:
Perle d’Or – pale peach polyantha (china/bengale?), 1884
Jubilee Celebration – apricot pink blend shrub, 2002
Jeri Jennings – golden yellow hybrid musk, 2007
Baby Faurax – dark mauve polyantha, 1924

The re-landscaping project was an effort to simplify the garden given the changes neighbors made in their gardens, time and effort available for deadheading and pruning, and a new appreciation for simpler, restful scenery. These were the images that inspired, though given the bones of the garden that I wanted to keep, there was necessarily much adaptation.

Taking advantage of the naturally mounding habit of the several varieties of pittosporum and their mature sizes, we’re hoping for less pruning and more light shaping, less deadheading and a more restrained color palette.

Here are the phases:
Planning and thinking here and here and here
Deconstruction – tearing out roses and shrubs (escallonia, osmanthus, nandina, star jasmine)
Chaos and pitts – many things at once: path, drips, hauling, interviews
Ta da (for now) – major work done, still a few to-do items

These are the shrubs and trees new to the garden as of December 2021:
Pittosporum tenuifolium Elfin and Beach Ball x6
Pittosporum tobira Wheeler’s Dwarf, Variegata, and Creme de Mint x12
Pittosporum crassifolium Nana x3 (1 replaced by gaura variegated, Aug 2022)
Philadelphus mexicanus Flore Plena x1
Cassia Feathery x2
Nandina Compacta x4
Euphorbia Ascot Rainbow x2
Euphorbia Silver Silver Swan x1
Salvia Celestial Blue x1
Lavender Meerlo x2
Ceanothus Skylark x1
Verbena De La Mina x3
Vitex trifolium x2
Podocarpus Gracilor x5
Iochroma cyanea Royal Blue x1

BEFORE!

If you haven’t noticed yet, I love roses.  I have 80-something plants, though I’ve stopped counting in the last year or so.  Does it look like I’m less fanatical if I don’t know the exact number?

Winter 2009 saw many changes in the garden with roses getting moved around, removed, and added, but as of spring 2011 here are the ones I grow:

Front Garden
12 Iceberg – white floribunda, a shrubby rose introduced into commerce in 1958
•Sugar Moon – white hybrid tea, superbly fragrant, 2012

Back Garden
Pink bed
Abraham Darby – pink-apricot blend shrub, 1985 [’13 replaced with salvias and irises]
“Apricot Dream” – mislabeled pale apricot shrub
^Baronne de Rothschild – red pink blend hybrid tea, 1968
*Belinda’s Dream – medium light pink shrub, 1988
*Caldwell Pink – light pink polyantha, 1928
Chicago Peace – pink-yellow blend hybrid tea, 1962
*Clothilde Soupert – very pale pink polyantha, 1899
Eden / Pierre de Ronsard – pink white blend climber, 1983
Gartendirektor Otto Linne
+Grandmother’s Hat – medium pink hybrid perpetual, 1972
*Jacques Cartier – light pink hybrid perpetual, 1868
Lilian Austin – coral-pink shrub, 1973
Madame Wagram – pink hybrid tea, 1894
Maman Cochet – light pink tea, 1892
McCartney Rose – bright pink hybrid tea, 1995
Perfume Delight – bright pink hybrid tea, 1973
*Pink Gruss an Aachen – light pink floribunda, 1929
Pope John Paul II – white hybrid tea, 2006
*Pretty Jessica – medium pink shrub, 1983
Rose de Rescht – hot pink portland, <1900
*Souvenir de la Malmaison – blush bourbon, 1843
Swany – white small shrub, 1977
2 Sweet Chariot – pink magenta miniature, 1984
Westside Road Cream Tea – ivory tea, found rose
Yves Piaget – medium pink hybrid tea (Romantica), 1983

Corner bed
Barcelona / Francis Dubreuil – deep red early hybrid tea or tea, 1932
*Cardinal Hume – deep mauve/purple shrub, 1984
Graham Thomas – deep yellow big shrub, 1983
Jude the Obscure – pale apricot shrub, 1995
Reine des Violettes – violet hybrid perpetual, 1860

Yellow/Apricot bed
Ambridge Rose – pale apricot shrub, 1990
Charlotte – clear light yellow shrub, 1994
*Golden Celebration – warm yellow shrub, 1992
+Honey Bouquet – yellow blend floribunda, 1999
Julia Child – bright yellow floribunda, 2004
Lady of Shalott – apricot-orange shrub, 2004 [new 2016]
+Lady Hillingdon – pale apricot tea, 1910 (died in 2010)
Leonie Lamesch – coppery cerise blend polyantha, 1899
2 Molineux – yellow tangerine blend shrub, 1994
Pat Austin – deep tangerine shrub, 1995
+Perle d’Or – pale peach polyantha (china/bengale?), 1884
Regatta – light coral hybrid tea, 1992 (replaced with Cindo de Mayo 2013)
Single Cerise China – hot pink single china, 2008
Tamora – apricot shrub, 1983
Unnamed Yellow Mini – intense yellow miniature

Cutting bed
Angel Face – light mauve/lavender floribunda, 1968
Baby Faurax – dark mauve polyantha, 1924
*Bolero – white blush blend shrub, 2004
*Chrysler Imperial – true red hybrid tea, 1952
•Cinco de Mayo – russet floriferous floribunda, 2009
^2 Double Delight – red cream blend hybrid tea, 1977 [replaced with new specimens 2012]
Fair Bianca – white shrub, 1982
*Fame – deep pink grandiflora, 1998
*Gilbert Nabonnand – apricot blush tea, 1888
Granada – yellow red hybrid tea, 1955
Heirloom – mauve lavender hybrid tea, 1972
*Jubilee Celebration – apricot pink blend shrub, 2002
*Intrigue – mauve grape floribunda, 1982 (new one to pink bed)
+Kronprincessin Viktoria – white bourbon, 1888
*Monsieur Tillier – carmine red tea, 1891
Oklahoma – deep dark red hybrid tea, 1964
Out of the Night – white blend shrub, 2006
Outta the Blue – pink mauve blend grandiflora, 2000
*Parade – hot pink climber, 1953
2 Peace – yellow blend hybrid tea, 1939
*Prospero – deep crimson shrub, 1982
Redouté [blush] (also Mary Rose [cool pink] and Winchester Cathedral [white]) – 1992
Reine des Violettes – violet hybrid perpetual, 1860
*St. Patrick – cool yellow hybrid tea, 1996
Sombreuil (aka Colonial White) – white blend climbing tea, 1880
*William Shakespeare 2000 – cherry red shrub, 2000

On the patio
Condoleeza – pink blend floribunda/moss, 2006
Eugene de Beauharnais – deep pink mauve china/bourbon, 1838 – moved to yellow bed 2013
*Marie Pavie – soft pink polyantha, 1888 – moved to west gate 2013
Simplex – white single miniature, 1961

East side
*Buff Beauty – pale cream apricot hybrid musk, 1939
Clementina Carbonieri – pink-blend tea rose, 1913
*Route 66 – purple or dark mauve shrub, 2001

Container roses
-Baronne Prevost – medium pink hybrid perpetual, 1841
Le Pactole – light yellow tea, 1837 [moved to half-barrel on west side]
Jeri Jennings – golden yellow hybrid musk, 2007

* these are roses I consider to be wonderfully healthy specimens for my Sunset zone 23 garden.
+ these are roses planted in January 2010
– these are roses that went to live with my mom or aunt
^these were planted in 2012
• new in 2013