A broken trellis brings indoor rose delights
Last week we had a lot of rain (this week’s a heat wave and a few thunderstorms), and since the roses are heavy with blooms we had a little mishap.
My Baron Prevost and Jack Cartier roses are standing tall near a wooden trellis that’s attached to the fence. I’ve also lightly attached some of the rose branches to the trellis (the trellis is mainly for the clematis that grows in front of it) and well, I guess the floppy rose branches got too heavy after the rain and they actually caused part of the trellis to break.
Upon discovering the broken trellis we fixed it with some 2×2’s – it’s very sturdy now and tied back some of the rose branches again.
Unfortunately one of the Baron Prevost rose branches snapped in half so rather than leaving the flowers out there to die I cut the branch off and then carefully cut some roses to bring indoors. Baron Prevost has a combination of large thorns and tiny thin prickly thorns covering it’s branches so it took some time to cut the roses off the branch and get them ready to go into a vase!
I almost never cut any of my flowers to bring inside. I prefer to enjoy them outside. Or I used to prefer them that way … after bringing in the very perfumey Baron Prevost flowers (and three peonies) I think I might change my mind.
I put the roses, two peony Peacher Peonies and one Karl Rosenfield peony in a vase in my kitchen and within minutes the whole main floor of our house was filled with a mix of rose perfume and delicate peony scent. In fact our house smelled of rose and peonies for two days before the roses started to wilt. Even then, the wilting roses still had some scent, although it was much milder than it had been when I first brought them indoors.
Do you ever bring some of your garden flowers indoors? Which ones are your favorites to bring inside?
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June 30th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
I like to bring home the lavender, especially when it grows too much and I need to prune it… It makes a big mess when the flowers are wilting but I just love the smell. I also love roses but I have some problems raising them, I think it has something to do with the soil, but I’m not sure.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:10 pm
I love to bring in fresh bouquets all the time but I especially love lilacs and peonies…nothing like the fragrance of lilacs around your house to make you love spring time!
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:00 am
I like gardening and that has been my hobby ever since i was 13 yrs old
and i love setting up the home with beautiful flowers like the lily , roses and many others with good fragrance
July 5th, 2009 at 9:11 am
I am actually growing flowers inside. I don`t have garden, alas. So I use pots instead.
July 30th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
[...] peony has a beautiful scent. In fact, after a huge rain storm in June, back when we discovered one of trellises had broken and snapped some rose branches, I gathered some lovely scented Baron Prevost roses, one peony and a [...]