Soil Sample
There are some places on our property where we have some really nice black dirt for top soil, but this isn’t one of them. This spot, on top of the ridge of our front field, is beneath a gate in the fence that was just completed. To connect the electric fence across the opening where there is a gate, they dig a trench and bury a wire. I was looking down at the filled-in trench and captured this shot to show the clay of our soil.
Relative Something 
Clay is good for roses, I was always told:-)
Ian Rowcliffe
September 14, 2013 at 3:15 am
I hope so. Cyndie planted two rose bushes on either side of the entrance to our labyrinth. The challenge is, with us suffering a second summer in a row of extreme drought, how to water our plants without over-watering them. It is so ridiculously dry here again, yet the clay soil doesn’t drain. It is a difficult combination to manage.
johnwhays
September 14, 2013 at 7:32 am
Re:yet the clay soil doesn’t drain – exactly… If you manage to take a photo of the roses that would be interesting. I have recently been going through a process with Patricia who was given a rose, which husband to be, Richard, had delayed planting out, leaving it weak and spindly. As it was given to them by his aunt (and legal mother after his own mother died), it seemed important that it should thrive. In short, it is now in flower after instructions all the way from Portugal to her cottage in Cambridge.
Ian Rowcliffe
September 15, 2013 at 4:18 am