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Showy first bloom – Climbing Westerland Rose

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I’m nuts about roses. I certainly have enough of them growing in my garden to support that statement! I have 60+ rose bushes!

Other than caring for roses and looking at their lovely blooms the next best thing for me is taking pictures of them. Especially ones like the photo above. Isn’t that rose just delicious?

This is one of my new roses. Remember I lost several roses last winter (2006/2007)? It was a cold winter here, but we had very little snow cover that year so the roses and some of my other plants took a beating and some of them had far too much winter damage to survive.

So ….

I replaced the dead roses with five new ones. The rose above is called Climbing Westerland. I planted it around the end of June last year and to the best of my knowledge it didn’t bloom last year at all. Surely I couldn’t have missed huge tangerine blooms like that?

I’m certain I couldn’t have … so lets say these are it’s first blooms for me. What a show!

The blooms are quite large, semi double, fragrant and simply gorgeous.

I certainly like my new rose friend. Do you?

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Plants I thought I’d lost were just dormant for a few years

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I had a little bit of a surprise this year garden wise. You see there were some plants that I thought had died last year or the year before as they never came up in the spring. Well this year, after our long snowy winter I got a surprise … the Oriental Poppy in my front flower bed started growing again after at least two years absence.

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The flowers were huge and they were on stocks that seemed to be much longer than I remember them being in the past. I guess my poppy had a good rest.

I also have some daylilies coming up in the front that I haven’t seen for a two or three years. The front flower bed tends to be dry and I think there’s lots of roots in it from the huge maple tree in my neighbors yard, but as I said we had a very snowy winter and I believe all that moisture must have helped bring some dormant plants back to life again.

The backyard is alive with roses! I took some photos yesterday but I haven’t had time to transfer them to my computer yet. I’ll post them in a day or two though. My yard is almost gawdy now that there are so many roses blooming.

The chives are just about done blooming, but while they were in their prime I managed to take a photo on an industrious bumble bee collecting pollen from the chive flowers.

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Is your garden full of blooms right now too?

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Fringed orange tulips put on quite the display!

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Sorry for the delay posting this weeks GTS post. My Laptop is acting up … everything I do on it takes forever … it’s very slow … so, so much for uploading new photos! Arghhh! I emptied the recycle bin and I’m currently defraging the poor notebook – hopefully that helps.

In the meantime … my lovely orange fringed tulips are blooming. Remember I was just obsessed with them last year? They have such an eye catching fiery color that it’s hard not to become enamored of them.

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These flowers are blooming in my front flower beds and they’re putting on quite the display. They’re also taller this year than last year.

In fact, I think most of my tulips were quite a bit taller this year than in previous years. For example, these orange fringed tulips have a stem that’s at least 2.5 feet long. Might even be 3 feet high. Must have been all the snow cover we had over winter that did it.

Here’s a close up of the top of the tulip and its fringes. Don’t the fringes almost look like teeth? You could mistake this tulip for one of those Venus Flytrap type of plants if all you saw was its fringes!

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I hope you’re having a great weekend. It’s cloudy and rainy here in Toronto, but it’s warmed up in the last week, although today isn’t all that warm.

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