a happy dozen
I am not seeing a big, huge, mass flush of flowers in the yard this year. Rather, it is a few at a time, which is okay. It is more of a slow, steady supply. Here is a collection of what looked good in the past few days. The first is a single grandiflora called Windmill. Sometimes the petals recurve to look like the vanes on Dutch windmills.
The next one is the Austin rose Peach Blossom. I think it is very delicate.
The next one is one of the best pictures I have of Austin's rose The Prince.
The next one is the Austin rose The Herbalist which puts on a big show in the spring and scattered flowers later on. By parentage I could see it fitting in with the hybrid bourbons, but that is not where it went.
The next one is the new climber Purple Splash showing a couple of flowers. I hope there will be more. I think it would be quite showy. I also wonder how well it will do here because one of its parents doesn't like hot weather. Time will tell.
The next one leaves me drooling. It is Austin's rose Munstead Wood. I actually got a few reasonably good pictures of it. It appears to me to have more petals than The Prince. It certainly is not growing as tall as The Prince. For some reason, the flowers start out opening a deep pink which is apparent on the far left of the picture, but they darken to the dark, wine red. I know that some other roses do that also. This is just a heads-up observation.
The next one is a faithful rose, an alba, Jeanne d'Arc. It has such pure white flowers, and usually lots of them, but this year I had to prune out a lot of the bush, and it doesn't look all that great as a total bush.
For some reason, and I am glad, the HT Heirloom was looking rather happy this spring.
Another Austin orange wannabe is this nice rose, Carding Mill. I wouldn't mind having several of these if I had a place to put everything I thought I wanted.
In this next shot, I was trying to play with the lighting. I caught several blooms on the FL Blueberry Hill that looked good, but this one had the most dramatic lighting.
This little workhorse, the FL Blue for You was putting on a show. I have been rather impressed with it.
Finally, for this round, a florist FL called Blue Chip was showing its stuff. It was looking rather perky.
I hope you like these. Let me know what you think.
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