Archive for July, 2009
I have quite a mix of flowers in my garden. The plants holding the majority are of course Roses, but even if it doesn’t seem like it at times I do grow other plants. Two of my favorite perennial plants are Lavender and Salvia. Both have lovely deep blue to purple blooms and of course, [...]
Isn’t this pink Clematis flower lovely? I grow several different Clematis vines, but this one is one of the largest vines! It’s located at the front of my house – well front corner, and it grows on a trellis. It’s perhaps 14 feet in height and two weeks ago when it was covered in pink [...]
This has been a funny summer here in Toronto. It’s cooler than normal so my plants are growing slower and blooming less frequently. Still … when you have gems like this beautiful “Prince Napoleon Climbing Rose” you can put up with a colder than normal summer. Fact … They say that this is the coldest [...]
I don’t have many yellow roses in my garden, but the few that I do have are absolutely gorgeous. Like this Graham Thomas English rose. Look at those beautiful, perfect, yellow petals. I swear I could spend all day looking at lovely roses or pictures of roses like this one. Perfection in nature. Related Reading: [...]
It’s a virtual rose parade on my property … at least at this time of year. How fitting that I actually have a climbing rose called Parade! Depending upon how warm it is each year, my many roses (over 60 plants!) begin to bloom anywhere from early to mid-June and the virtual rose parade goes [...]
This climbing Iceberg rose, caught blooming in my garden in late June, is just about perfect. Too bad they didn’t stay that way! Shortly after I took this photo we had a lot of rain and the rain drops caused the petals to get pink dots on them. Pretty … but I believe it’s a [...]
