Very colorful Rita!

I showed my Mom some of your photos on my iPad. She said..."one woman has all that?"

Then I told her about your bulbs, azelea, roses, etc. etc. She is amazed! So am I!

Thanks Juli. Sometimes I am amazed that it is all here myself.

The roses are coming along nicely and should bloom like crazy this spring. I sprayed yesterday and was just amazed at all the buds everywhere.

It's all looking fabulous, Rita. What is your easiest to grow
and prettiest climbing rose?

That's easy. WESTERLAND. Almost no spray, lovely and desease free. But I only have a few climbers so maybe not much of a choice? If you want a red climber DON JUAN is simply lovely but needs spraying.

Thank you Rita. I like the idea of not having to spray. I knew
you would know. You have so many lovely roses.

Thanks. I spray them every two weeks with systemic fungicide. If I didn't I would have blackspot everywhere. I like my roses green and clean. None of those horrid yellow leaves and bare twigs for me. It is very humid here in the summer. No spray doesn't work so well. There are exceptions and WESTERLAND is one of them.

Your irises look good enough to eat, they have filled in nicely too.

Dot

Thanks. They really are blooming really well this year.

I want to change this area of the garden and put in a veggie garden instead of the roses I have growing there now.



Here is my big now empty spot where I dug out a white climbing rose yesterday.




Further along in that same garden section. I dig out the one rose that reverted to rootstock (and I tossed it). Then I also dug another rose and moved it.



Looking back




Lots of roses still left that need to be moved. It is raining so I am not out there working. But I want this area to be a veggie garden so I have to move all that stuff out. I did get the two big upright sedums that were in there moved yesterday.

Just from pictures from the past two days-

WOW everything is gorgeous as always

Very colorful. The irises look fantastic.

Looks absolutely beautiful, Rita -- and are your lupines coming back?

Of all the lupines I had in that little tree garden, I only have the one bloom. There are four plants but the rest all died. I just planted snapdragons in there for summer color this year while I think about whether to plant more lupines or not.

Oh, I really love the lupines. They are sooooooo dramatic! Maybe the other three will bloom next year?

If they are still here and don't die, then I am sure they will. I figgure I will try again to plant more but not this year. They are just so pretty! Even the leaves are pretty.

Perrymount TB iris


Designer Label TB iris

The Tall Beared are about done here, only a few blooming. There are lots of Siberians blooming now. I have this section in my front yard were I planted Sibs and crammed in all I could fit. It has taken afew years to fill in but finially this year starting to look like what I envisioned when I planted them. Some views of the area.

Roses are starting here. front yard rose planters



Lemon Drop





Just some more rose views-