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An icy flower for an icy day

by Tricia

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The weather outside is miserable right now.

It’s cold and instead of snow there are ice pellets coming down! I think everything will have a coat of ice on it when I get up in the morning. Brrrr.

As I thought about what kind of post I’d do for Green Thumb Sunday the weather outside (the weather that I got to experience first hand while taking our dog out for her last outing of the night) I remembered how pretty my flowers look just after a rain. Then I remembered this lovely picture of an Iceberg rose … now doesn’t the name of the rose kind of fit the weather we’re having too? LOL

Iceberg Rose

So I present to you and Iceberg rose on an ice pellet day. Hey, it works for me …

I’ll add this cool purple Alium as well. It’s supposed to be a spring bloomer, but mine tend to bloom in late June or early July. The iceberg roses will bloom long before the Alium next year.

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Are any of you lucky enough to be enjoying flowers due to living in a warmer climate than I? If so, I envy you. I already miss my garden.

Actually .. I do have a few flowers blooming indoors. My Thanksgiving cactus has almost finished it’s blooms and my Christmas Cactus has a few early blooms. Plus … I have a small hibiscus in my kitchen and it’s producing lovely coral flowers for us. So I guess I’m not as deprived as I thought I was.






Filed Under: Garden Buzz, Green Thumb Sunday, House Plants, Photography, rose, Toronto, Weather related Tagged With: after_rain, alium, cactus_blooms, Christmas_cactus, cold, cold_climate, cool_purple, flower, flowers, freezing, garden, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, hibiscus, ice, iceberg_rose, ice_pellets, icy_day, icy_flower, indoor_blooms, raindrops, Thanksgiving_Cactus, weather, wet, winter

Summer rose

by Tricia

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This is one of my favorite roses. It’s called Breath of Life and it’s a climbing rose.

The plant grows right at the entrance to my garden and when it’s in bloom I can see it’s lovely flowers from my kitchen window, the enclosed back porch and of course as I begin walking out my back door. What a lovely rose to greet me!

It blooms regularly throughout the summer so I almost never see it without roses. In fact this stubborn plant has a perfectly formed dead rose at the tip of one of it’s branches right now … even thought it’s absolutely freezing out! I’m surprised the rose hasn’t fallen off yet.

BTW sorry this post is so late. I’ve been sick all weekend. Sore throat and or swollen gland in my neck, sore ear, stuffy nose, massively bad headache and a grumbley stomach. No, I’m not a happy camper!

Filed Under: Garden Buzz, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, rose Tagged With: backyard, Beautiful, beautiful_rose, breath_of_life, climbing_rose, constant_blooms, doorstep, entrance, Favorite, garden, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, hybrid_tea, Lovely, rose, summer, summer_rose

Yves Piaget roses love cool weather

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Of all the roses I grow I think my Yves Piaget Romance rose is putting on the biggest fall show:

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It’s just full of blooms!

As you can see from this picture the roses get a little over blown fairly quickly, but they stay this way, with their petals all puffed out for days, especially in this cool weather.

Actually I think all the roses are enjoying the very cool weather we’ve been having here in Toronto. They are growing and some are developing buds, even though they really should be shutting down for winter by now.

If you grow roses, how are they doing right now? Are they enjoying the cool weather and flowering?

Filed Under: Blooming today, Garden Buzz, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, rose Tagged With: blooming, blooms, cool, cool_weather, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, loving_weather. garden, Romantica_rose, rose, roses, weather, yves_piaget

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