As the Garden Grows

Wordless Wednesday

Compte de Chambord is perhaps my favorite rose.

It’s an antique rose that has the most lovely rose perfume scent. The rose is quite hardy as well! It’s branches have very little winter damage in the spring and green up quickly as the weather warms.
The first flush of flowers at the […]

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This rose is The Fairy. It’s a Polyantha rose.

This lovely rose grows to the size of about two feet and spreads approximately three to four feet. It blooms profusely several times each season with clusters of bead-like buds that open into globular pink flowers. It’s foliage is a nice deep shade of […]

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Chicago Peace … Originally where this rose is now planted I grew Love and Peace - a rose that descended from Chicago Peace. My Love and Peace didn’t make it this year. It gave up the ghost in late spring. I think our mild winter and lack of winter protection did it in.

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Beautiful William Baffin blooms.

I can’t wait until Summer comes again so that I can see my very tall rose bush, it must be 10 feet tall and 5 feet wide, full of blooms. It’s first flush of blooms each year in late spring or early summer is just stunning! It’s quite a sight […]