Guilty

Anyone else feel guilty about disposing of plants ?
I have two roses that ive never liked, one's a climber with yellow flowers that turn white, the other a HT with red flowers. Both have no scent, a must in my garden, both do not repeat flower, both ive been thinking about disposing of for years, they just dont fit in.

BUT i feel guilty. Is this normal ??

Shall i think about it again next year ??

 

Nope. Definition of a weed: "A plant in the wrong place"

 

You don't like them so just dig 'em up! Go out and do it now!!! They have no place in YOUR garden!

 

I've had to give plants the sack before. I always feel a bit guilty about it, and it happens as a last resort. I always try to re-home them if I can rather than binning them.

 

I get rid of plants that I don't like, but rather than compost them offer them on Freecycle, there's 'always' willing takers...

 

If you want ask a neighbour if they want them to off load onto them instead of getting shot of them to the compost bin.

 

why don`t you put on garden swap ? you can trade them for different plant , you may not like but some will love them .

 

Roses are terribly hard to transplant i thought. Once in and established thats it with them ??
Ive already given neighbours and friends my divided perenial's, i think they have no more room.
These things must go though i think

 

I had to move an established rose in my garden. Its not that I don't like roses, but this one is right where my young son will tear his skin off on it because I'm building the garden up to support his idea of fun, and have planted hide and seek shrubs near to where this rose was. So the rose had to go.

Down the bottom of my garden, at some point, we will put a chicken run. At the moment its a tip, and certainly off limits to the lad. So having dug out this rose, not very carefully I might add as I intended to throw it away, I suddenly felt bad for it. I very crudely dug a hole in the off-limits bottom of the garden and shoved in the battered rose, which was missing half its roots due to the careless way I'd removed it. That was about a month ago and now it is all green and leafy.

 

The decision was made over Sunday lunch in a pub garden. The roses went an hour ago. Dug up (blimey they were in deep), the larger of the roses will be a Delphinium area (bought three already) and the other rose was dug up just to give the Rudbeckia more space.

One question, with my delphinium area, would you plant three of them right at the back as they can grow 6' tall or in the middle as specimen plants ?

G

 

I would plant them at the back, and take some basal-cuttings so I have more next year - should get at least one cutting off each plant, so double your "stock" year-on-year