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This, maybe?
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Julia_here/P1010327.jpg
What's hilarious (not) about that mess is that I got it when I was fixing the wheelbarrow and the leg of the chair I was sitting on suddenly cut through a (unidentified burrowing mammal: I've got 'em all) burrow and dropped a foot, dumping me into the base of the New Dawn. All that damage ws through long sleeves, too.
But could you imagine me without roses? I can't.
(Go eat, Julia, your BG was 98 ten minutes ago)
That, and the watering, and fertilizing, and the disease issues. I don't spray.
Neither do I, haven't for decades, if they can't survive without spraying I don't want them.
Which is, of course, why I mostly have great big thorny monsters, and the sort of roses that don't take much fertilizer or water after they're well established, and my biggest time-outlay every year is spring pruning.