As the Garden Grows

Wordless Wednesday

Most of the roses in my garden are beginning to develop rose buds. It won’t be long before beautiful roses like this Prince Napoleon Climbing rose fill my garden with their beauty and their scent.

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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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Rain drops and Rose buds. Two of my favorite things.

My roses have finally stopped blooming what with all the snow and freezing temperatures that we’ve been having here in Toronto. It’s about time … but I’ll miss them over the next few months.
Sometime this week I’ll have to take my camera outside and […]

Wordless Wednesday

My hybrid tea rose Just Joey is starting to bloom.

It has lovely full blooms when the buds open. Right now there are a few flowers in bud, some just opening like the one above, and a couple that are almost fully open.
For those of you that grow roses what is your […]