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Climbing Westerland Rose

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Can you believe it?

I think I’m actually starting to run out of new pictures for my Green Thumb Sunday posts! (it doesn’t help that I do GTS on three blogs either).

I just don’t seem to have the variety of photos in stock that I normally do.

Perhaps it was all that rain this year, keeping me from getting outside and taking photos of my plants in different stages … or mucking up my plants so much that I didn’t want to take pictures! LOL

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This is a beauty from earlier in the summer. It’s a Westerland climbing rose. It looks like it’s just beginning to develop buds again, so I’m sure it will be flush with blooms by the end of September .. and oh what blooms they are! This is a gorgeous rose with a heavenly scent.

Hmmm today is supposed to be fairly nice .. I think I’ll try to get out and take some new photos. Gotta store some up for winter GTS posts!

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Garden heading towards spring peak

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I think my garden is building up to it’s spring peak. More tulips have come up and developed buds, the German and Siberian iris’ are growing strong and should send up flower spikes soon.The primrose (this is primrose isn’t it) is blooming –

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The azaleas have developed buds and one of them has started to bloom:

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The chives have developed buds and will bloom shortly. This photo is actually one from last year and some of the chive buds had already opened:

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The best thing about the garden this year is that I really did a lot of work on it two or three weeks ago, so it’s nice and tidy and other than making sure the vines are growing where I want them to grow I really haven’t had to do too much gardening work since. It’s nice to be able to sit back and enjoy the garden.

I have a ton of photos on my camera that I still haven’t found time to transfer to the computer. As a result all of the pictures I’ve shared with you today are actually from last spring – but don’t worry, the plants look pretty much the same as they did last year. LOL

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My replacement roses are doing great this year

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Welcome to all the new Green Thumb Sunday members that I finally got around to adding yesterday! I hope you enjoy our little group.

Earlier this week I went out into the garden with my camera and I took a number of great photos of the plants that were blooming and new ones that were growing, but I’ve had such a busy week I didn’t get around to transferring them from my camera to my computer yet. That’s the trouble with photos, especially if you take a lot of them at once – it takes time to prepare them for posting.

Anyway … I do have some photos to share that I took two weeks ago. Just imagine the plants being bigger or having more leaves now. 😉

This is the Climbing Iceberg Rose that I bought last summer to replace Antique ’89. Antique ’89 must have had too much winter damage in 2007 and died in late spring. Well as you can see Climbing iceberg is doing great:

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This rose is over 4 feet high already and I’m sure it will only get bigger in the next month. I have a standard iceberg rose shrub at the front of the house and once it gets going it’s covered in blooms all season so I expect that the climbing version will do the same.

I had replaced a few roses last year and all of the replacements seem to be doing well. The majority of the established roses (2 to 5 years in the ground) all have long green stems and seem to be ahead of themselves in growth compared to other years.

The Astilbe is also growing well. I have several clumps of it in shady areas of my garden. I think I’m currently growing three different types.

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Basically everything in my garden seems to be doing well this year with the exception of one rose – Dr. J H Nicholas – it’s struggling. Hopefully it makes it, but if it doesn’t I guess I’ll just replace it with a hardier rose.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there.

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