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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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Lovely Asters in bloom

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Peach colored aster

This lovely peach colored flower is growing within the asters that I planted in June. I think it’s an Aster as well, but it’s quite a bit different than all of the rest of the asters that I’m growing.

Purple asters

It seems like my asters are blooming earlier this year. I guess that’s due all the cool weather we had in July and the first two weeks or so of August. I think my Asters have been blooming for at least two weeks, maybe three.

Asters usually bloom well into Autumn – I hope that mine do this year considering their early start.

Do you grow asters in your garden for some fall color? I have several shades ranging from a bluish purple, to mauve, pink, and a deep rose. Oh and the peachy colored one above too!

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One hundred plus blooms on Iceberg

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Of all of my many roses (60+ varieties) my Iceberg rose at the front of my house currently has the most blooms.

Most of the other roses are either taking a break or only putting out a bloom here and there since it’s so hot these days.

The first couple of years that I grew Iceberg I didn’t notice much scent from the blooms, however over the last couple of years the blooms seem to have more scent. In fact, right now since this rose is practically bursting with blooms anyone walking up to the front steps of my house can smell their delicate light scent.

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