Took a walk around the (rose) garden
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and this is what I saw.....
Peace - second flush
Kronenbourg
Little Artist
Charmant
And then I looked at the big picture, not just at the blooms but what the garden looks like ..
Waiting for the second flush in this bed
took a walk up the path (the bit of orange in the middle is Westerland just starting to bloom again)
walked past my three unknown shrub roses (could be Yolande d'Aragon) they are full of blooms
Up to the rose beds I started in Nov 2013
This is my 'Little Prince' (Arctic Ice/Le Petite Prince)
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoAnd Ingrid and Black Baccara
And all my seedlings - some not so small any more
The new rose bed - still with lost of space for new roses
Then a quick look down
What does your garden look like in the middle of summer? Would love to see.Sharlene
jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
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Comments (26)Thanks, Joe, for these stunning photos. I made my annual visit to the Cranford Garden last week. I had a great time there as always, but as in the past wish they would display the rose name tags a little better. They grow most if not all of their OGRs along the fences. Lots of these roses I would love to learn their names, but could not find the tags. Lovely, lovely photos. Now I will have to go the one in the Bronx this year as well......See MoreWalking around the garden today.
Comments (11)Our neighbors put in rows of spruce & pine trees to block us out. For some reason it aggravates my husband, but I love it. Although on one side the owner put them in entirely too close together & several are getting diseased & dying. The new owners don't take them down when they die, so when a storm comes up the trees fall over on us. We have to clean it up, then they come later & take off the rest of the tree. I don't understand why they don't take down the dead trees when they clean up those stumps. We've never had any other problems that I know of. Still have 5 or 6 dead trees, just waiting for them to fall. How did I get off onto that? I was trying to say that I love the privacy, especially when you have close neighbors. Ours aren't that close, but I love the privacy we get from the trees, & I know you get that from your beautiful azaleas....See MoreTook a walk through my garden today.........uggghhhh!
Comments (11)I wandered around the yard today too. I'm not discouraged yet. I still think it's too early to tell. I did see some things that encouraged me. Daffodil foliage in places where it has been established for awhile is starting to come up. One area where I planted daffodils last fall is showing tips of foliage but not others yet. I can't remember if I put in early or late bulbs there. No sign of 25 Leucojum that I planted in the fall and only one crocus so far. I still have another 9 days before I could consider them actually later than other years. I did see foliage at the base of chrysanthemums and new growth on sedums, buds on lilacs, and on Honeysuckle vines. Can't tell yet about Clematis or the roses. The Viburnums all look like they should. But this is that time of year that everything looks it's worse, before new growth starts showing and there's a lot of clean up. Bottom line, I'm not worried. I will have a lot of work to do this year, but it's like that every year for one reason or another. I always have grand plans and schemes and this year is no different than any other in that regard. I decided to sow seed under lights this year. But I wasn't able to start them as early as I intended to. I just started sowing yesterday, so I'm off to a late start, but it really looks like we will have a late spring. DH suggests we may not have a spring, that it will go right from winter to summer. That will really disappoint me if that's the case, but I guess I wouldn't be surprised. I guess I think that we all have to become as flexible as possible because every year it seems the weather surprises us more and more. And it's not just us in the north, where we are getting cold and snow. I would hate to have moved south to get away from this weather only to get hit with it down there as they have in Washington D.C., Georgia, even Florida this winter. And gardeners in the plains states and in the West are still dealing with record droughts. Even in England this spring, they had record flooding. So we're all in the same boat. I think we have to adjust and find a way to use whatever weather we get for growing something in the garden that we love. I'm looking forward to buying a few annual geraniums this year for a pot, based on photos of all of your geraniums last year! I love the spring season, but, I'm trying to have something for every season so I have something to look forward to, if one season is a dud. I'm looking forward to spring vegetablesâ¦peas and lettuces and greens, broccoli and bok choy. But if it gets hot too early, then I've got peppers, tomatoes and squash to get into the ground earlier than usual. And there's always containers of annuals. And plant shopping!...See MoreCome for a walk around my Garden on a Foggy Morning
Comments (8)Thanks everyone and what a warm day it turned out yesterday after all that fog it got to 31degs. I love the damp foggy mornings also not that we get many here. Dee the garden is just about finished now though I did make a new bed for my Gerbera a few weeks back and I am thinking of another Rose bed but no more roses just giving them more space. We got 1200 used pavers given to us on Tuesday ( exchanged for hard yakka ) so I can see a few new raised beds getting made for extra vegies.. Hi Macbirch...I have a lot of Gerbera's now and those doubles are so beautiful and last a long time in the vase. Marion do you get Misty morning's like this..How is that packing going... Dear Rosalie::: No I have not mastered it yet..though I am trying hard between library books and video's and all those camera forums on the Internet...Today being a special day for me we are going into the big smoke to my favourite toy shop and Tony is going to buy me either another memory card two big ones are not enough for me or maybe a filter ??? Then there is that book shop, O decisions decisions but I will come back with something. Sorry I dont know the name of the Plumbago as I found it in a pile of rubbish when we bought this block it is not a really bright blue......Cheers...MM....See More
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8 years agoBeth - I know where you are coming from. Your comments prompted me to have a look at some old pics. We bought this property end of 2007. It has taken seven years to get the garden looking this way. A lot of hard work but my DH and I are very please (and proud) of what we have achieved. Pics below....
Ziyakr - I look forward to seeing you pics. (before and after) And there is never anything to be embarrassed about! I can also appreciate the beauty of a natural looking garden but for myself, prefer things a little more formal.
Kublakan, those are fruit trees and I don't want to let them get any bigger. If need be, my DH has got a big chain saw! Roses first - plums and apples second, lol!
Sharlene
September 2007 - view 1
September 2010 - view 1
July 2015 - view 1
September 2007 - view 2
May 2008 - view 2
July 2015 - view 2
September 2007 - top garden
August 2010 - top garden (my DH putting in the raised beds which I used mainly for veg for the first three years)
July 2015 - top garden - no more veg, only roses
PS. was so engrossed in posting these pics that I forgot the bread I had in the oven! Black bread today! Not the first time - must be age, lol!Sharlene
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoWow, I'm impressed. Very nice!
those evergreen shrubs I have the same in my rose garden
rosecanadian
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoI thought that your place was a public garden extravaganza worked on by a huge staff of people. It's unbelievably gorgeous and refined. I would never be able to do that LET ALONE have the VISION. I could never see that in my head. You have a great flair for design. Incredible. I really love your Flaming Peace rose!!!
Here (above) is a fuzzy look at the garden - but it shows the color and the general shape.
Thanks for looking,
Carol
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Ok, still a little embarrassed but I did say I would post. Top photo is a 5 foot grow bed, filled with rescued minis (pink and purple) and one surviving The Fairy (plus what I am calling my morning glory monster). Second is my little center bed, more very hardy rescued minis (red and white this time) plus various containers. 3 and 4 are my rose and perennial bed with all of my full size roses (curved, about 15 feet long by 4 feet wide). Quietness in the foreground in pic 3, Mozart in the foreground in pic 4.
Sharlene, I really enjoyed seeing how your beds went in. Love all the different levels, would love to see a closeup of your Westerland...it is a favorite of mine at the rose garden here.
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