I got the vase for free. It's part of set of 3 glassblown art vases. Got them from a free pile from local estate clear out, a few years ago. I'm good at scoring lots of #freebies & rarely buy anything new.
The wife and I also went to Lowe's today and bought some new flowers.
We got a red rose in honor of her mother who passed away February 2023 due to cancer, since we already have a yellow rose in honor of my dad who passed away July 2021.
Celosia is the little plant with various colored flowers, then a dark orange and yellow pansy, and a white and purple dianthus.
I’m so proud of my flowers and shrubs this year! I don’t have a green thumb and usually psych myself out from even attempting to grow anything, but I’m really trying this year. These pics are of established plants that came with the house, so I just need to let them do their thing and focus on not accidentally killing them. This year, for the 1st time, I actually tried pruning them. Seems to have helped! The rose bush is the fullest it’s ever been. 🌹❤️
Bought two climbing #roses, planting soil and barn manure. Swapped out a lot of the old soil in a big planting basin on the street gable end of our house, planted the climbers, transplanted three shrub roses that have been eking out stunted & undernourished lives on much worse soil around the house.
Now I have FIVE ROSE BUSHES just outside the yard gate to look at every morning for seven months until the frost sets in. Been waiting for this for ages!
Richly gifted by #nature. "Pierre de Ronsard" #rose. This #Meilland climbing rose from 1985 imitated historic roses and has a wonderful old-style scent of fruity flowers with a note of honey. In high humidity it is nearly white-greenish, in dry weather it opens pink. In Germany it is known as Eden 85 rose. #roses#roseslove#florespondence#bloomscrolling
In the last few days I've switched my painting style almost exclusively towards the cottagecore aesthetic, with very limited palettes of muted gouache colors. It's possible that I'm entering a new phase in my art that might last a while. While cottagecore is not a new style for me, I was switching to other themes whenever I felt like painting something different, mostly with watercolor. But having done a few paintings of that style now, it's obvious that gouache is the right medium for it. You need the layering complexity to get the best out of the style, you need the painterly feel and thickness of the paint. So far, I'm having a blast!
Late Bloomer
This one I could not resist! It was taken today, in the below freezing late fall weather.This beautiful rose bush was featured in my Flower a Day project, so today when I knew I would be seeing it,I made sure to have my camera with me, and I wasn’t disappointed. I really got a lift seeing all the bright roses and in particular this lovely bloom along with the promise of another to come. https://www.elliekennard.ca/late-bloomer/ #Bloomscrolling#EllieKPosts#floral#floralfriday#flowers#Rose#Roses
Maybe it’s my imagination, but things in my garden seem out of synch with the norm this year.
Crape Myrtle trees & bushes are just beginning to bloom, about a month late.
Hybrid roses show no sign of a second bloom - first time in 22 years.
The neighborhood mockingbird is singing his heart out now, which usually happens in May.
I can’t seem to find anything useful on an internet search regarding this. Can my rosebush be saved? Some stems are still green, but all the leaves are dead. Its neighboring rosebushes have intact leaves. I suspect my dogs may have hurt it by digging at the roots. It may be possible to relocate the plant to a more sunny location out of reach of my dogs; I just need advice and want to know if it’s worth the effort.
First Rose Boquet of the year. #roses#gardening#bloomscrolling@gardening Varities include Summer Dream, Double Delight, Just Joey, Ingrid Bergman, and Marjke Koopman.