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Tiny Lavender flowers

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I love lavender.

I grow a few different types in my garden. We’ll perhaps I should say I’ve tried to grow a few different types in my garden. The one that does best is Munstead. It seems to be the hardiest and I suppose the most forgiving?

The photo above is a close up of the tiny flowers on a slender lavender stem. You can see the skinny lavender leaves just underneath the lavender flowers. The other thicker green leaves belong to another plant. Once which I can’t remember which one it might be at this time.

Do you grow Lavender in your garden?






A lovely antique rose

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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 end of May or in early June just cover the rose bush and the scent from the flowers wafts through the air.

Some of my close neighbors tell me that they can smell my roses – especially in the morning – and I know most of the scent that they are smelling comes from Compte de Chambord and perhaps my Baron prevost and Jacques Cartier roses as they are my smelliest roses.

A lovely Polyantha rose – The Fairy

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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 green and the plant is fairly resistant to most diseases.

The Fairy is also a hardy rose. Thriving in zones 4 to 9.

I barely ever have to do any special care for this rose. Each spring I might prune out a few of the branches that have died off, or thin the branches but that’s pretty much it. It’s very low care.

Does anyone else grow The Fairy?

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