Ali, I don't know what a Spanish Bayounette is... I'll have to Google it. It sounds like you & your MIL have some pretty different ideas about how to garden, but I do hope that she'll appreciate what you're doing, when she sees the results! (I assume that you live there with them, & that's probably why your FIL was so comfortable mowing
everything!) Since your MIL likes
roses too, was she upset with his mowing them down?
I have no idea what the name of LaRelle's white
rose is, & I doubt that she knows either, but I'll ask her. Her
roses aren't climbers, & that bush is about 5 1/2 feet tall & must have at least 20 blossoms on it right now! (She forgot to prune earlier this year, but she should still thin out the center of it.)
She seems to be generating toward
plants that produce white
flowers, & I just posted a pic of her
White Siberian Iris , if you want to take a look at it. (I didn't want to post the pic of it here, because I'd like to see this thread stay on the subject of
roses & not get hijacked to other types of
flowers.)
She pretty much just
plants & cares for & enjoys her gardens, without bothering with too much of the details, while I, on the other hand, am always in search of names & botanical information for the things that are coming up in my yard. (I'd never paid attention to
flowers before, as I come from a colder climate where
flowers never lasted very long, so I didn't bother with them. Now that I'm in a region with a long
growing season, I'm going bonkers over
flowers & just can't get enough!)
I have 4 pink Floribunda
rose bushes, 2 red climbers & 2 other large ones that I don't know the names of... (they put out big
flowers that are just gorgeous.) My pinks & my red climbers are in bloom now, but the other 2 are taking their time this year, I guess because they got a pretty serious pruning in February. When They bloom I'll get pics posted here, to see if I can find out their names.