No descriptions are necessary this morning because the photos say it all. The season's first bloomers in the garden behind the little blue house are sublime — they are lush — they are perfectly coloured — they are intoxicatingly fragrant — they are deliciously decadent — they are absolutely divine.Can there be too many roses in one's garden? I have taken out my tattered copy of Taylor's Guide to Roses once again and am trying to figure out where I can put several more of these wonders this year. Although they bloom only once (for the most part), I have a particular fondness for old roses, and their names have all the lilt and cadence of a good cantrip: Maxima, Allegra, Maiden's Blush, Belle Amour, Ispahan, Isis, Celestial, Empress, Autumn Damask, La Noblesse, Reine des Violettes, Tuscany, Rosa Mundi, Leda.
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Too beautiful!
Roses are among my favorites as well. Some are forgiving and others demand a great deal of your time if you want to be their friend!
Gorgeous! a friend of mine is a rose nut and has found several varieties which are "ever-blooming" I think they are called David Austin roses.
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. My little patio garden is largely shady so roses don't work too well, but have a rose plant in my bathroom right now which gets lots of light. These roses you post look like wild ones that grew in my neighborhood when I was a kid.
I stopped along one of my walks today to pull neighbours' roses closer to the fences so I could get face to face with them, petal to nose really. I haven't grown roses for a long while. Perhaps the time has come again.
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