Beautiful! Your roses look so healthy. What a great outdoor living space.

I am really jealous of you granite patio. That is sooooo pretty. All I have is a concrete slab.

It's lovely!! Wherever did you find that gazebo?

What a neat gazebo!
It really looks great with your new granite patio.
It all looks so wonderful.

Haziemoon

You've done a wonderful job and I love your granite patio. Your flowers are really pretty and just wait until they take off. Your roses are beautiful and very healthy looking too. Enjoy your wonderful outdoor room and gardens.

FlowerLady

Thank you everyone. I am looking forward to the flowers maturing.

foxglove--I bought the gazebo in Saugatuck MI. There is a shop there that goes to Mexico every winter and buys all sorts of metal items. The gazebo was literally orange with rust when I bought it. I spent several months last year using rust converter then spray paint. It still has some rusty spots that need to be touched up. I have clematis planted at each corner. They were mail order so they were tiny but some of them are 3 feet tall and starting to flower so I guess that's good. Can't wait to have the gazebo covered in flowers!

Beautiful pictures and outdoor space.

I wanted to make a recommendation for working with a concrete slab patio. Sorry if you already know this technique.

I have an old house and my laundry room floor is concrete.

I cleaned the floor, etched it with the correct chemicals, painted it a solid burgundy. I took a clean pizza box, cut it apart, and cut a piece of foam to fit into the bottom of the box. Glue to foam to the top of the pizza box.

Pour some paint into the bottom of the box (a contrasting color). Pour a couple of other colors side by side in the middle of the contrasting color. Take a stick and draw it through the colors, making a pattern through the paint.

Dip the foam into the patterned paint and start stamping. I left space between the stamps so that the burgundy showed through as if it were grout.

Now I know it's not granite and I usually only like "real" things, but it really warmed up the room. I know that some people in the "garden junk" forum have used the same type of technique to make brick patterns on concrete patios.

i'd be happy with concrete- all I have is clover.

:)

the pics are gorgeous. Love the gazebo too! and ofcourse the granite. beautiful rose!!

WOW! Gorgeous!!!

Beautiful!! Sounds like you put a lot of hard work into the gazebo, and what a payoff!