Beautiful. Can't believe the amount of blooms you have already.
Cher

Your garden is beautiful! I really like the yellow roses... My red
knockout just finished, but it put on a spectacular show. My short
pink one is still going....Oh and I've never seen an Iris like that
Florentine Silk, very pretty.

I really admire your roses. I just can't grow them. Yours are so healthy and gorgeous!

I have the double red Knockouts and some hybrid teas but most of my roses are floribundas or stuck into the shrub rose catagory. I think they stick everything they don't know what to do with into shrub roses LOL. Anyway, I do spray the roses with systemic fungicide starting early in spring shortly after they leaf out. I keep that up until late, late fall. Every two weeks on the dot. Or if its going to rain on my spray date, I move it up to sooner.

Rita you are my hero! :o) I am so envious. Your garden is just incredible!! So much colour and so many blooms. I am absolutely shock you are not bombard with compliments everyday.

Carrie

Gorgeous pictures! As a practical person I've gotta ask - how long does is take to deadhead all that and how much blood do you lose?! :-)

I am so used to rose scratches on my arms and legs, I don't even notice them any more. Most of the roses bloom in sprays and I wait and then deadhead the entire cluster when its done. What I actually do is cut back strongly. Not as much as first thing in the spring, but alot. Then I get a second strong rose flush in August. After the August flush I don't cut back, just cut spent blooms and I have roses blooming on and off until it gets very cold and freezes. I have had roses blooming in December if the weather was mild.

When the spring flush is in full bloom there in the front yard, I do get lots and lots of lookers. I also get cars stoping as they are driving by.

Just beautiful ! I love the patchwork of soft colors everywhere you look. I would definitely stop and admire your yard, and hope you were outside so I could compliment you on it. I know how much work goes into that and even though it is a labor of love to please yourself, it's nice to hear praise from others. Great job !!