Last "to cheer everyone up" rose photo for now...

3 years ago

So, after all of the things going wrong which I listed in my previous post, yesterday the stock market crashed... I was expecting locusts, but we got that instead. Oh, well.

So, I found another rose photo I like to look at, which is below, and I hope will provide cheer in this season of amazing things. I like it because this area of our garden (which faces and is about 6 feet away from the sidewalk) has remained untouched (except for some watering and feeding of the roses, and taking out some dead wood and some English ivy) since we moved in 31 years ago. So, yes, all of these roses and other plants were there before we moved in, and have just kept on doing what they do ever since. The background plants are an old flowering crab apple tree (up which the roses are growing), and an old Japanese quince (the more reddish orange blooms on the left). The roses have been identified as Dawson's Apple Blossom (rambler with small pink clusters of blooms, what I think is Fortuniana (white), and Eugenie de Beauharnais ( dark magenta 1830 Bourbon). I love how they have all mingled together with each other and the tree and quince. They all bloom once in the Spring, but we now have 3 other plants of EdB which bloom in flushes all summer, once we moved some suckers of the original one into full sun. The one in the pic is the original one, and from where it is and from family history, it and the other two roses were planted (of course the Fortuniana might be rootstock, and thus not planted on purpose) in the 1930s or earlier. Sometimes roses make their own "garden designs", which can come out pretty well!

Jackie

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flowersaremusic z5 Eastern WA

3 years ago

No matter all the ups and downs of life, we have our roses to give us joy. Jacqueline, I could look at your garden and home photos all day, and I love your family history. Yours is the garden of my dreams.

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BirdsLoveRosesSoCalCoast
3 years ago
Beautiful!
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rosecanadian
3 years ago
Jackie - I gasped when I saw your picture!!!! What a gorgeous visual sanctuary...I feel better already just having seen that oasis of blooms!!! Birds must love your yard!
jacqueline9CA
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3 years ago
Thanks to everyone. Yes, we have lots of birds, all the way up to small hawks. Squirrels too, of course. (Once we watched a small hawk chase a squirrel through the INSIDE of a large pomegranate bush - he was using his wings to climb through the bush!) Squirrel nests in the large trees, birds nests in the large rose bushes. It is cool and clear now, so I just went out and re-filled all of the bird baths (raccoons come at night and get them muddy), and put out food for the birds. It is supposed to be 96 here today, and 105 tomorrow, but I don't really care that much about the temp, if the air will stay clear (it is right now, so I opened all of our windows and put all of the fans on). Last night the irrigation went on, so I guess there is nothing else I can do right now.

Jackie
Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
3 years ago
Really gorgeous , and yes that is smile worthy for sure . You have created quite a sanctuary for humans and critters alike.
comtessedelacouche (10b S.Australia: hotdryMedclimate)
3 years ago
Loving all the cheer-up photos, Jackie. Thank you so much for posting them. And yes, they made me smile too. :-)

I do wish we could help with all the troubles assailing you guys over there at the moment, some natural but most in some way human-induced I guess, as in Australia. Maybe it's just that The Times They (really) Are a'Changing, whether we like it or not... Time perhaps to take stock and sort out what's really important to us in life, and what isn't, so much.... Meanwhile many challenges for the human family as a whole to grapple with. Will we splinter apart or come closer in the end?

Much love to all, whatever you're going through and wherever you are.... <3
monarda_gw
3 years ago
Beautiful photo!
rosecanadian
3 years ago
Jackie - Amazing!! I love your descriptions! Climbing hawks!! Amazing!!
Melissa Northern Italy zone 8
3 years ago
A beautiful photo indeed: I hope that one day my own garden--if it's allowed to exist long enough: my own lifetime may not suffice--will have an overwhelming richness like what your picture shows.
rosecanadian
3 years ago
Melissa - overwhelming richness....I love that!
Plumeria Girl (Florida ,9b)
3 years ago
Oh, Jackie ! I am sure you will find me there just staring at such a beauty for hours and hours. It is a breathtaking sight as you said how the roses find its own design.

It sure put a huge smile on my face for sure. I miss everyone so, so much. 🌹