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Wordless Wednesday
Yes, it’s just a rose, one called Just Joey. Isn’t it just lovely?
This rose doesn’t bloom far enough for my tastes. I’d be happy if it bloomed from late spring right into late autumn, but it only seems to bloom at most three times a season and only has five to ten flowers at a time.
The flowers are quite large at approximately four inches in diameter. Just Joey is also a scented rose. It’s not strong smelling, just a light pleasant smell when you are close to it.
Prince napoleon is an antique rose. This one is supposed to be a climber but it’s never grown more than six or seven feet tall. I’m not complaining since it’s often lush with beautifully scent flowers.
This rose is also quite hardy. It often has almost fully green branches in late winter and early spring when the snow melts so I have very little to do with it in the way of pruning off winter damaged growth.
I love this rose.
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This weeks theme is Rows
This weeks photo hunter theme is Rows. I don’t really tend to take photos of things in rows so this was a hard one for me to try to complete.
I chose this Heuchera leaf since the veins in the leaves are so well defined. They are in rows, angled rows, but rows none the less.
The Heuchera plant has very pretty leaves. It flowers, and while they are nice when they are around it’s the leaves that are the main attraction. If you have a shady area of your garden that you want to brighten up with some color try a heuchera with it’s colourful leaves.
Wordless Wednesday
I can see why this rose is called Morden Sunrise. The inside of the bloom looks like the rising sun doesn’t it?
The weather was cool enough in July that this rose actually started to set rose hips! I plucked them all off so we’ll get another round of blooms or two. Certainly this heat wave that we’re currently going through should wake this lovely rose up again and make it bloom it’s pretty little head off.
Blue Gentian
I’ve been slow to get out and take photos of my blooming plants but the other day I went out for an hour and came back in with 279 photos! All but 4 were keepers.
The photo above is of blue Gentian. It’s a simple flower that blooms once or twice a year. It’s buds are interesting swirled cone shapes and then they open up into these delicate flowers.
The flowers above have a companion. Did you notice the ant?
Musk Mallow Malva moschata
The flower above is called Musk Mallow. It’s a North American native plant.
It’s very easy to grow, very hardy and as you can see it produces small delicate beautiful flowers. What more could you ask for in a plant?
Oh I know … did you know that you can eat the flowers and leaves of the musk mallow? The plant even has medicinal properties as well. I also believe that the root of the first flower, gentian is edible. See I grow a lot of plants that are not only beautiful, but edible as well.
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