All these pictures of everyone's roses and talk of how well they're all doing has me in a complete state of depression.
We just had our annual garden tour this past weekend and I only had TWO roses with blooms on them: Excellenz von Schubert, and Chihuly.
The remaining 39 bloomed wonderfully 3 WEEKS AGO ago :(
This is the first time it's ever happened and thankfully I had common things like foxglove, lobelia, arctotis, snapdragons, etc. blooming...but it just wasn't the "show" it's been in my previous years as a tour host gardener. The only consolation is that everyone else who hosted was in the same boat. ( In the back of my mind, i KNEW i shouldn't have signed up to be on it this year !)
This years weather goes down in infamy as being the MOST bizarre we've ever had...in my lifetime anyway ! I'm not doing this again until Mother Nature gets her act together !
Zu: Glad you mentioned September Song. A friend of mine got it and has the same compalints as you. We were both convinced it was mislabeled, but hers looks just like the photos you posted.
