the roses are blooming!

Today I took these rose photos. There is only a small portion of them in bloom

and I am truly humbled by their beauty.

I am eternally grateful for the wonderful lady who planted them years ago.

We will do our very best to care for them the way she did.

If you know the names of any of them, please share as I have NO idea about any of them!

And any advice on keeping them healthy would be appreciated, too.

Nature Notes

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old roses

I wouldn't know how to start to identify these lovely roses that line one side of our garden.

They have, obviously, been around for many years--probably planted when the house was

built in the '60's or '70's--and have been cross pollinated over and over.

Aside from their obvious beauty, they have a very faint but lovely smell.

Only one purple bush remains but it gives lots of wonderful blooms.

Last summer, I cut off a few limbs and stuck them in the ground in two 

places, farther down the fence. To my very pleasant surprise, both groups

had lovely flowers on them this spring!

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...from my garden. Hubby bought three standard rose bushes and two rose groundcovers for our garden when I mentioned that we were missing roses.