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With Fall Comes Roses and Other Pretty Things ...

roselee z8b S.W. Texas

13 years ago

With fall comes more roses and much more pleasant weather in which to take pictures! :-)

This is an found old rose with a mouthfull of a study name "Mt. Helena's Cemetery Very Double Hybrid Tea" ..

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It has bloomed all summer and hasn't had a speck of black spot or mildew. It's very fragrant too. When it's larger I'm hoping some of you will want cuttings as it's a worthy rose to grow ...

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To the left notice the little pots of roses that were rooted at Schumachers propagation class the end of May. I'm surprised at how fast they have grown. All of them have already bloomed too which is a good thing so I could ID them, because I mixed them up when I brought them home and had a box full of mystery roses! LOL ...

This is one of them, "Emmie Gray". If anyone coming to the San Antonio swap wants some cuttings I can bring some from my neighbor Georgeanne's bush. It's evergreen and grows in the dappled shade of oak trees with NO leaf diseases. But it would probably bloom more if placed with a little more sun. ...

Gruss an Aachen looks best to me when the buds first open ...

This is my first plumeria bloom. Georgeanne gave me a cutting this spring. It loves full all day sun ...

This pale yellow Datura was grown from seed that Jolana gave me ...

Felicia rose with Almond verbena. Almond verbena is really filling the air with fragrance these days. I dearly love the fragrance of Felicia too. It smells just like my grandmother's face creme ...

Chenille plant, isn't it gorgeous? Unfortunately it is not growing in my yard, but at the S. A. Botanical center. It's a zone 10 plant. Maybe Jim or others in more southern zones grow it. How about it, do you?

I'd love to see photos of your fall gardens. Please post some pictures! Thanks :-)

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rcnaylor
13 years ago
Pretty, pretty and more pretty Roselee! Thanks for sharing.

With our "fall" heat wave, I'm afraid my fall garden is a fall flop more than anything else! Oh well, maybe next year!
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
Original Author
13 years ago
Thank you Richard.

I'll bet your garden isn't the flop you say it is. Every year I'm totally amazed at how the garden will 'spring' back with cooler weather. I'm hoping yours has done the same by now.

I want to add a picture. This is the first bloom on the Brug Kathy gave me earlier this year. It is very fragrant. As you see there are more to come. Bat faced cupheas are growing beneath it ...

In the background on the right is the papaya that came up from seed this spring. It is loaded with fruit, but I doubt that it will make it through the winter. But anyway I've enjoyed its stately presence through most of the year.
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Great pics Matthew! You have to show us the full cluster blooming on that GOLD MEDAL. That's gonna be beautiful! Love the turkey! We have wild turkeys down near the creek below our circular road. They come up and eat my neighbor's bird seed that she puts out for the wild birds. She's always having to chase them out of her yard! I think it's pretty funny...
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carrie751
13 years ago
If that is the brug Kathy got from me (ask her about the story), it is Dr.Seuss, one of the most fragrant and hardy brugs. I love walking out in the evening to smell the fragrance.
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
Original Author
13 years ago
Okay Carrie, let's ask her :-) I hope it is. I've read that Dr. Seuss is one of the most free blooming cultivars and it certainly IS fragrant. I should have waited to post a picture, because it has about five or six gorgeous deep yellow blooms now. I know you and Prince Albert grow a lot of brugs. Probably lots of others do too. Would dearly LOVE to see pictures of them!
plantmaven
13 years ago
LOL! Yes, it did come from you, Carrie.
Remember it took root in transit?
carrie751
13 years ago
If I remember correctly, two weeks in transit, Kathy ......LOL>
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
Original Author
13 years ago
Thanks Carrie, for passing that rich yellow brug, Dr. Seuss, along to Kathy so she could give it to me!!!

Another Datura from the seeds Jolana gave me bloomed. It's a triple yellow and so fragrant.

I'll save seeds in case anybody wants some, but who knows if seedlings will be the same as the parent. Will Datura generally come back after winter if left outside? I'm thinking that they won't.
rock_oak_deer
13 years ago
Beautiful pictures, love the Datura with the birdhouse.

I wonder if that's the same Brug Kathy gave me a cutting of a while back.
ruthz
13 years ago
roselee, I would really like some seeds of your beautiful datura if you get enough.
I have yellow and purple but not on the same flower.
That's different from any I've seen.
roselee z8b S.W. Texas
Original Author
13 years ago
Ruthz, you have mail :-)

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