This Rose is Eating My Rose Walk

  • Post published:06/24/2009
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My friend BJ asked me how the roses were doing when she visited this afternoon. And I said, "I'll show you!" and shoved her across the lawn. "This is what one rose is doing, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" Of course, I'll have to wait until after the Rose Viewing. Maybe someone will know who this imposter rose is. Do you? If you want the story about making this, my first  video, you'll have to…

Walk Down a Rosy Memory Lane

  • Post published:06/24/2009
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As I prepare for this year's Annual Rose Viewing, I thought I'd re-run a tale of preparation in 2006, another wet spring.  I have been working all week to prepare the garden for the Annual Rose Viewing which we hold the last Sunday in June from 1-4 pm.  In between rainstorms my husband has mowed lawns and trimmed, moved potted plants and been at the ready to weed and prune.  As I’ve worked, trimming the grass around the…

Monday Report June 22

  • Post published:06/22/2009
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'It's raining, raining, raining. I hear the raindrops fall.'  The lawn is sodden, the Sunken Garden is a swamp and the vegetable garden is sulking as morning temperatures  are still in the 50s. And yet, and yet, the rains have mostly been gentle and the roses have drunk their fill. Applejack, at the head of the drive is all grace, and the rugosas are blooming fragrantly. Rose buds are swelling on every bush. I think this will be…

Monday Bloom Day

Happily for me my Monday Report coincides with Bloom Day hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens.  Be sure and visit there.  This is an exciting time because the roses are just starting to bloom in my garden. They loved all the rain last week. Rosa glaucaEven though the roses on Rosa glauca (formerly known as Rosa rubrifolia) are tiny and inconsequential, this is the rose that gets the WOWs at the Annual Rose Viewing.  The bush is a…

The Garden is Now Closed

  • Post published:07/01/2008
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That's me in the blue dress, chatting with visitors to The Annual Rose Viewing. The weather reports were threatening, but so far our luck has held and it has never rained on the Rose Viewing. In fact, there was so much sun that my husband was busy handing round extra garden hats and parasols, but as the afternoon progressed it became less humid and one of Heath's lovely zephyrs began to whisper across the hill.Even so, some visitors…

Rachel’s Rose

  • Post published:06/28/2008
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Not all of my roses came from nurserseries. Not all of them have official IDs and names. I have several Farmgirls tht have come from neighbors in Heath. This magnificent rose was given to me by Rachel Sumner the summer before she died. She told me this was a mighty and vigorous rose. Many years before her husband was building a big garage which required substantial excavation; he piled all the excavated soil on top of her rose.…

Greenfield Garden Club Visits

  • Post published:06/27/2008
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If you take the long view, from my bedroom window, things look pretty neat. You even get a little more sense of the roses in bloom than the picture shows. I hoped the Greenfield Garden Club would be happy with the big picture, and wouldn't be too bothered with details like weeds.After slathering ourselves with bug repellent we took a walk to the Shed Bed which has really good soil, possibily because it is right next to the…