My roses are doing beautifully this year. 17 pink buds/blooms so far and more every day!
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Gorgeous. Pink roses are my favorites. I have been thinking about planting some, since all the ones we have so far are red.
It has been a good year for the roses hasn't it.
Clever Merry to grow 17 flowers. I can't take any credit for mine as they just grow without me but I have a rose story.
Many years ago when I got my house my mummy got me a mystery batch of rose bushes from the daily express. You planted them and they grew whatever colour they grew and that was the mystery.
She planted 1 outside my back gate and the others in the tiny front garden. The back gate rose was white , the front ones were pink or red. We often grumbled we should have had the nice white one in the front.
Anyway over the years they grew old and did nothing much and have wooden stems now and the odd tiny thin shoot now and then.
This year there is a thick new screen stalk on the white rose bush almost a new plant really as its flowers are pink. I know for a fact that was a white rose bush. Is this even possible.
I didn't take pictures at the time, but I hope you like the rose story.
You should plant some, Asy. They make my day a little sunnier every time I see them.
I did like your rose story, Furby 
The 'mystery' rose idea is wonderful, I love surprises. (the surprise of my tri-colore mystery surprise hibiscus was that it never flowered.) It has turned pink as a message that the future wil be 'rosier' (I hope so) than it looks at present.
You will not want to move and leave those very special roses behind. I left mine behind at Darkes Farm and I feel sure they will all have been dug up in the course of 'landscaping' 
Merry, they are lovely roses. 
Furby, I love the idea of the roses surprising you that way! That would have pleased me immensely too.
I have always liked roses. You get so much back for minimal effort once they are established. They provide color and scent for ages and you get to pick them for indoors if enough of them.
The first time I had a garden (wish I had one now) it was just a 3ft border around a concrete yard and it was mainly weeds.
I had no money right then to buy plants, but I weeded it and dug it all over anyway. I cut the one overgrown and stalky looking rose bush right back to just a few branches in hopes it would grow properly again. I had a book from the library that suggested that. All I knew about plants then was that generally the pretty end went at the top 
It also said that you could grow more roses from the cuttings. I had doubts and so did everyone else when I planted little bare sticks all round the border, but a few years later I had a dozen healthy rose bushes. Eventually huge rose bushes which flowered for ages.
Pink roses?
OFF WITH HER HEAD!
Furbs, possibly what happened was that rose plant was grafted.
People graft a pretty colored rose onto a sturdy rose root. When the grafted top plant dies off, sometimes the root plant bursts forth with its own offspring.
In the fruit orchard, this can be quite surprising, when a dead peach tree suddenly resurrects and starts producing apples, for instance.
Sounds like a plausible explanation, Asy. It's a nice story anyway that nature can spring surprises. I hope it does well as a pink flower, Furbs.
I keep telling myself that the awry rose bushes in my back garden should be removed as they are a nuisance, but the huge cream coloured and deep red blooms that they produce with little more than a hari-kiri style prune every year makes me think, maybe next year..
I like the idea of planting the bare sticks I never knew you could do that.
My mummy had a "back garden" like pani with a bit round the edge of the yard, I just have the yard. But the roses had to be dug up to allow work in or under the yard and they never really recovered from moving. Roses don't seem to like being moved.
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