Roses...

Okay so the great debate of the day. As many know, I love roses. I always wanted to have a beautiful rose bush in my backyard that I can go smell the roses and look at their beauty. Well when we bought this house there were two bushes but neither of them actually had what I would have planted. I like the deep red long stemmed roses. Plants that have beautiful large red roses. Well I still decided to nurse them back to health and this year got just beautiful roses for a while, but then the baby came, and I ignored the roses. They grew wild and stopped blooming and now started to lose leaves and the leaves have turned yellow (a disease that effects roses). It created the great dilemma, do I leave my daughter to work in the yard, or stay with her? The more I think about it the more I feel like I am not a gardener. I don't like to weed. I don't like to prune the bushes. I don't find it relaxing. So which do I want more, to overcome weeding and pruning to get roses for maybe three or four months. Is it really worth it when I can go to the store and buy the roses I want when I want for maybe $6? I love spending time with my daughter rather than slaving away outside at a rose bush. So maybe it is time to just dig them up and plant something that doesn't need to be tended as much. Maybe just some grass....