What's blooming today?
I like to always have a hibiscus around.
Sometimes I’m not all that successful keeping them alive inside my dark house in the winter but I always have one each summer, whether it’s new or one that survived the winter.
I just love hibiscus flowers. They’re so large and beautiful.
Did you know that hibiscus flowers are edible? I don’t eat them but I do occasionally drop a hibiscus flower in with my box turtles and they eat it up. They love eating flowers.
Wordless Wednesday
My hybrid tea rose Just Joey is starting to bloom.
It has lovely full blooms when the buds open. Right now there are a few flowers in bud, some just opening like the one above, and a couple that are almost fully open.
For those of you that grow roses what is your favorite rose?
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Well, I finally managed to tidy up my garden and my arms have the scratches all over them to prove it!
Every rose I have has been pruned so now there are no more dead twigs standing up, visible over the new growth and blooms.
The garden looks so much better!
Chris and I went out yesterday afternoon and purchased 5 new roses, two clematis vines, three passion flower vines, a hibiscus, a blue Hydrangea and two fuchsia plants. Oh we got some more annuals as well. I guess that with all those vines, our existing cannas and jasmine plants that our garden will have a tropical feel to it this year.
My back ached each evening after I was done working in the garden but luckily felt better each morning. I thought I was going to get away without having any sore muscles but my legs are a bit stiff today. At least it doesn’t seem like I’ll be as achy as I was a month ago when I over did it in the garden!
Now I just need to get all the new plants planted – perennials and annuals, and get some mulch down too.
Does the work ever end?