This will be the first year in quite a while that I have had blooms. Seems like the plants have struggled until last year, but now I have already had 1 flower and 1 opening now and more buds. I am so excited to see the buds.
I set mine up on pots to help get them off the ground, but every day it seems like 2 or 3 have been knocked off their pedestals. ( I don't know if it is squirrels, or dogs). I need to put them all in hanging baskets or urns to keep them off the ground, I just haven't figured out how to do it quite yet because they do have to be taken indoors for the winters and I have to consider my space limitations. ( Somehow I forget about those limitation when I see new ones I think I need.)
This one is opening now. It is labeled German Empress. Today the bloom is beginning to turn more pink, but it still has a day or two before it opens completely. This little flower was a surprise . I didn't realize it had a bud on it .
