Wow, that's a gorgeous rose and your garden looks wonderful in bloom with all these whites. I bet it glows at dusk and at full moons. Great photos too of these.
Leslie

Sammy, your photos are beautiful. I sure wish my Prairie Star would take on more pink.

Carla

That is so pretty and I love your tudor house.

Sammy - that has got to be the most beautiful photo I've seen yet of Prairie Star. I don't have it but after seeing your photo I sure wish I did. It's one I've almost bought several times and now for sure I'm putting it on my wish list.

Thank you, Leslie. I really like the glow at night. Carla, the blooms don't have as much pink in the summer as in the spring. Prairie Star seems to like my yard - that is why I have so many of them.

Thanks Patricia.
Thanks Two huskies. Actually I love the Prairie Star, but want to examine some of the newer Buck roses that may not need to be sprayed. It simply is not very forgiving if not sprayed regularly.

Sammy

Prairie Star looks wonderful! You took some GREAT pictures of its blooms!

What really is nice about your picture are the crepe myrtles - I've never seen one before!! Really gorgeous!! Do they repeat bloom?

Carol

Lovely blooms both on the roses and on the crape myrtle. I have never seen prairie star, so that is a new one for me.

Charlotte

Lovely roses, Sammy.

Crape myrtle is hardy only to zero, once blooming for a good while in mid to late summer, has a range of really beautiful colors, attracts Japanese beetles.

Thanks Carol, Michael is correct. I am afraid that the crape myrtle is for those of us more south than you.

Thanks Charlotte.

Michael, you are correct about the crape myrtle. When we first moved here I tried to grow lilacs because that is what my mother in indiana grew. I think newer varieties are grown here, but you don't see them like the crape myrtles. I have more than 10 crape myrtles, and whenever I cut them, they create more. My neighbor has one that reaches the top of his 2 story house, but I like them a little higher than my roses. My yard is small, and it is more pleasing to the eye to have them just a little taller than the tallest rose.

We also can choose how to cut them. These I keep like a bush, but the ones in the back, I prune up, and then do not have clutter on the ground that will attract leaves, bugs and critters I don't like.

Sadly the crape myrtle is a distant plant to see. Up close the plant is not nearly as pretty as a lilac.

Thanks for the compliment, Michael.

Sammy

Lovely sight, all the billowy white. Prarie Star is like a big fat cloud. Lovely!

Oh, that Prairie Star is so beautiful! Everytime I come on this gallery, I see another rose I want to add to my list - and it's getting pretty long! I also think your house is fabulous...great photos Sammy!

Judith