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My garden tonight.... (thumbnails)

16 years ago

I posted some of these on the CG forum too, but thought you might enjoy some of the roses in my garden tonight.

Double Knockout and primrose

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Green Snake

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Winchester Cathedral

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Morden Fireglow

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Simon Frazer (?)

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Wild Blue Yonder

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Livin' Easy

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Lily, primrose, clematis and Knockout rose

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Not all roses, but.....

this is the garden room tonight.

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and a few others...

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Comments (12)

pappu
16 years ago
Just beautiful! Everything looks perfect!
zeffyrose
16 years ago
Your garden room is exquisite-----Did you build the brick walks??

Thanks for sharing

Florence
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Well thank you everyone! :-))) I wish I didn't plant all those annuals the way I did though.. you can hardly see the lilies in amongst all the other flowers. Oh well, guess I shoulda realized the lilies wouldn't grow to their mature height in the first year... live and learn I suppose. Those freckled lilies are quite beautiful IMO... but the yellow ones aren't opening properly due to the heat.. the orange ones opened up nicely however. I do love lilies.. they are my favorite flower out of pretty much all... but they look nice when mixed with other flowers that accentuate their color and beauty. I was going to put some daylilies in the garden on the other side of my front steps but I never did get around to buying any... this year anyways. That area got filled up with Cleome!! I didn't know there were that many as hubby used to cut in where that garden is located so the amount of plants there shocked us both... he loves those so that's a good thing though. As far as my favorite lily? That's a hard question... although I do find myself gravitating towards the dark red ones though so I guess out of all the ones blooming right now I'd have to say the Black Out lily would be my favorite... although in another week or so I guess my Landini lily will be blooming so that will be my fav too!! LOL... just can't make up my mind! Fragrance.... hmm... not really yet.. but only because the ones blooming right now don't have much fragrance except for the white one.. that's called Eyeliner and it has a mild scent. Once the OT lilies bloom though the smells should waft into the house as they are planted right under my living room window. ;-) Thanks again for all the compliments.. and for ignoring all the weeds that are visible in those photos.. LOL ttfn Cheryl.
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Its fine (so far) here!
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bodiCA
16 years ago
Some time ago, I fell in love with a photo you posted of your fabulous Green Snake, may I please ask, how do you think it's color will look under Madame Cochet?
Thanks in advance.
patricianat
16 years ago
Very pretty garden room. You have a well-attended, neat and beautiful garden.
lesdvs9
16 years ago
Beautiful roses and your flowers are too. Your garden in the evening is gorgeous, all the colors, very peaceful.
Leslie
jean_ar
16 years ago
Gorgeous...Just gorgeous garden.Roses are beautiful and so are the other flowers.Nice place to spend a evening.

Jean
canadian_rose
16 years ago
Lovely rose garden - must give you a lot of pleasure!

Winchester Cathedral and Easy Going look great!! I jut bought Easy Going - I really like it!

What do you think of Simon Fraser? Repeat, disease, rebloom, floriferousness, etc.

Carol
bettym_grow
16 years ago
Picks #8 & #11 are especially striking. Professional looking pics ready for any fine gardening book or magazine!

Betty
mary_lu_gw
Original Author
16 years ago
Thank you everyone. I have been playing with my new camera a lot lately. Still don't have a good grasp of all the features, but getting there. Probably take 100 shots a night. Only about 10 or so really turn out like I thought they would.

As I mentioned on the discussion side, today I took out one of the climbing roses on the fence. It had RRD. Darn, now there will be a hole on the fence for a few years. Not as bad as I thought it would be though. The neighboring roses had "draped" into that area as well. All part of gardening I guess.
Marylu
kathy9norcal
16 years ago
I so love those early spring scenes. Just beautiful!
Kathy
char_rose
16 years ago
What a fabulous garden!!! It certainly was a feast for my eyes. I love the attention to detail, the way plants drape over your small retaining wall. Very lovely!
nberg7
16 years ago
Mary Lu- your pictures are just wonderful! I fell in love with your garden long ago, and it just gets better every time I see it! You have such a gift for placement and combinations it's unreal. I can't get over how your Green Snake just keeps getting better and better! I'm thinking about planting one at the edge of our back forest and letting it just do its thing.

Nancy

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