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Summer rose

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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!






Annual Asters for the garden border

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Well it seems that my garden has finally got the message that winter is coming.

There are still some stubborn roses sticking around, but they are no longer alive. The cold got to them and they are just there. Actually I’m hoping that I can take some pictures of them with frost or a light coating of snow on them one of these days as I think that will probably look pretty.

There’s also one single clematis flower on the vine at the front of the house. Like the roses it’s dead, but it’s still holding it’s color. I’m sure it fooled a few people that might have noticed it.

Since I don’t have any pictures of frosty flowers or snow covered plants to show you today I’ll have to fall back on pictures that I took earlier this summer.

One flower that stands out is the annual asters that I grew this summer. They were so pretty! Such vibrant dusty rose pinks, purples, blue and white flowers.

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They started blooming in late July (if memory serves me) and continued to produce lovely blooms until early October.

The annual Aster plants are 12 inches or less in height so they are the perfect size for a garden border. I planted several of them in the open spaces at the edge of my raised garden beds, beside lavenders and hostas and they looked lovely.

Did you grow Asters this past summer?

No GTS for me today

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I’m sorry. I’m not doing a Green Thumb Sunday post on this blo or the other two blogs I normally do GTS posts on today.

A friend of ours had open heart surgery on Friday (schedule surgery, not emergency) and we’ve been in and out of the hospital since Thursday visiting her and her husband and seeing other friends there as well. Plus I’m still sick. Darn Crohns – it’s acting up terribly …

So for once, I’m giving myself permission to not do a GTS post. ‘Cause if I do one I’e got to do three … LOL

I do hope that most GTS members are participating today. It seems GTS might be dying down and I think that would be a shame. So please do participate, otherwise let me know and I’ll take you off the GTS list.

Thanks!

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