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More Pics From June

I have uploaded more picture, but having so many pictures on the last couple of posts, I decided to put them in the 2007 Photo Album. So, you can just head over there by clicking the link and then click on each picture for further descriptions for most of them. I didn't bother with descriptions on the Peace and Arizona roses because they are just there to be pretty.

However, I don't want Buffy to miss the Rugosas that I had cut down earlier this spring - they don't look like they ,minded a bit, do they? (there are 2 seperate pics)

Snowmound and Others

I have more pictures that I will share today (and probably otheres for the weekend). First up is a picture of the Snowmound Spirea in full bloom. I thought that I had not gotten a picture of it in its full glory, but it was on another roll of film:

This is a shot of the pathway from the yard down to the AFOTFT. It is taken from below (looking toward the house). Not a bit of that is weeds. There is creeping thyme, creeping yellow sedum (I think it is what Cop Car has a problem with in her yard) and creeping phlox (top left). There is also a fern in the foreground - the ferns like that corner for some reason.

The next pictures are all of Chicago Peace. I put them below the fold so that I had time to tell you to protect your eyes - these really pop out at you:

Color Pallet of a Small Garden

So, since there obviously aren't enough projects around here that need finished, I started a new, quick project on 4th of July - afternoon, no less. I have been extremely dis-satisfied with the flower garden between the patio and the deck. I have been so dis-satisfied, that when looking at pictures to show you "befores" I only had two pictures of that side of the house. Both of those pictures were to show where the patio was being bluilt. As a matter of fact, I have never posted pictures of the completed patio, most likely because I couldn't get any pictures that had a nice background in it.

In the spring, I suppose it looks nice enough. There are plenty of irises, an astilbe (that has been there forever) on the left, a newly planted small hosta on the right and a couple of other things struggling to live under the ferns (another astilbe and a bleeding heart). Later in the season (about now), coreopsis shows up at the corner of the house. Other than that - nothing.

I have planted several plants in that area previously; a red coreopsis, a red hardy geranium and a multitude of other things that have failed to live. (confession time - the geranium did live, just did not thrive).

Not only is that area not pleasing (especially when compared to the other side of the porch), but it is so sparse that the cats think it makes a fine outdoor litterbox during the winter, spring and fall.

Those are some of the reasons that I planted the Scentimental and Helen Hayes roses in there earlier this season.

I figured a couple more of the roses that I have could go in that area. Then I started looking at the colors, both of my present potted roses and of what was in that area, and decided big changes needed to be made. Sure, I like the purple irises. Sure, the red geranium with its burgandy leaves was cute. Sure, the pink bleeding heart and amethyst astilbe are fine specimens (when I bother to rip out ferns so they can be seen).

BUT, they clash horribly with the large red astilbe, red/white rose, yellow rose and yellow coreopsis. Then, the neighbor gave me some other yellow flowers that I thought would look nice next to the coreopsis and rose.

Rose Pics May-June 2007

I went back thru the rose pictures, and found a few that aren't too bad, so thought I would share:

Arizona - which has been a good repeat bloomer. There are always several buds waiting to open and there are usually enough blooms (off of 2 potted plants) to keep 1 or 2 in a vase. The buds are more an orangish-red. As the flowers open, they become more pinkish-orange. They have a very nice scent that is moderately strong:

The Peace Rose is a chameleon. The buds are almost always yellow, then from there, each rose is different. Some open up white with pink edges, then the petals slowly darken to pink, otheres are pink/yellow/white. There are other variations too. Peace has a mild scent that you can detect if you put your nose right down at the top of the bloom. Although Peace has only bloomed twice, the bloom last a long time.