New improved gardening thread (can't find the old one)

Pruned some of my roses today. Will do the last one tomorrow.

My house came with over 100 rosebushes. I don’t like roses and I believe that the correct number of rosebushes for a garden in Australia, with an Australian climate and Australian water resources, is zero.

To date my ‘pruning’ has gotten me about halfway towards that preferred number.

Thorny cunts, thelorrathem.

Roses are one of my favourite flowers, flowers are one of the themes of my tattoos and three of them feature roses. I have discovered as a single man that I really like having fresh flowers in my home at all times, it brings a softer and more feminine touch to an apartment that is otherwise dominated by exposed brick, leather, wood, and technology. I don't generally buy roses for myself though.

Your ecological arguments are logical but I'm not sure that turning your land into a joyless hellscape is going to save the planet. Let the pretty flowers grow.

This thread has completed Talkback. @tricky you can close it down now, your work here is done.

I'm ever evolving, man.

Fortunately there are lots of plants and pretty flowers that are native to Australia, so the rose bush genocide won’t cause said hellscape.

I get why people like roses. Whenever the weather is temperate for a while, ours bloom up very impressively (at least in the parts of the garden where the shade/sun combo is to their liking… alas, the previous owner just stuck them fucking everywhere). They’re just not my thing.

If you clear enough roses will you have room for a TVR?

Edit: you should leave one rose bush, obviously a red one, and bestow a garabaldi-esque name upon it.

Roses, particularly climbers, are great. Colour and scent for months on end, and idiot proof to look after. I’m so pleased that in this thread they’re finally getting the attention they deserve.

It's not working out that great though is it? In the last couple of months @noodle has grubbed up more rose then the rest of us have ever planted, combined.

Space is not a problem. Unless it goes on fire.. which might make a TVR unwise to have around.

Mrs Simon doesn't like roses, for reasons I've never bothered to examine, so, in both of our homes I've dug up a few plants.

Mrs Simon lives away from Mr Simon? This is surely the secret to a long marriage.
On it.

Or we moved.