Garden Pictures

The first rose from my garden. It's a Fragrant Cascade. It was listed as "very fragrant", but I'm finding out that fragrant is relative, but it is a lovely rose.	"Blue Ribbon", a lavender rose. Extremely gorgeously fragrant.
Here we have a warning: This was SUPPOSED to be a "Blue Girl" rose. You can see that it is definitely not lavender. While it's pretty, and it's quite healthy, it is most definitely not what I ordered. Be very wary of doing business with any mail-order plant company operating out of Bloomington, IL. I'd give exact names, but the company goes by about a dozen different ones that change all the time (another red flag). You can't miss their catalogs, though; they all look alike, with garish color photos. Well, I learned my lesson... Again, it's not an unattractive rose, with pretty streaks of red and orange on a yellow base, and it's very healthy. Click here for a picture of the whole bush. UPDATE: The rose is a "Tropical Sunset".	Pink jasmine climbing up a wooden trellis. I should have used a much bigger trellis.
My house, with my 9' tall butterfly bush visible at the far left of the porch, and the glads and roses to the far right.

This page last updated: July 10, 2009

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