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June 27, 2015

Roses in the morning

My best rose photos, especially during the hot Summer months, are taken in the morning.  Blooms are beginning to open, but the day's heat hasn't sapped them of their youth.  Below are some striking examples of bloom clusters from four of my rose seedlings, obtained from open pollination of their parent rose: 'Queen Elizabeth'.  The progeny of this parent rose are likely to bear roses in clusters, as 'Queen Elizabeth', the first of the Grandiflora class, is heavily indebted to the Floribunda roses.  For additional photos of select bloom clusters, see my post of July 5, 2014 titled "Royal roses".

Photo taken:  June 27,  2015
Photo taken:  June 26,  2015

Photo taken:  June 9,  2015
Photo taken:  June 12,  2015

Update of September 4,  2015:   The pretty roses just keep coming.  Below are blooms from four more of my unnamed seedlings from the 'Queen Elizabeth' rose.  Considering that their open pollination beginnings were very likely the result of SELF pollination, the implication is that there must be much diversity in the gene pool of the 'Queen Elizabeth' rose, which is quite true (and you don't have to go very far back in its ancestry).  These eight rose photos (4 above + 4 below) are testimony to that diversity.

Photo taken:  June 28,  2015
Photo taken:  July 3,  2015

Photo taken:  July 5,  2015
Photo taken:  September 3,  2015

June 16, 2015

Visitors !

The garden is in mid-season form now, and some guests from the Salem Rose Society paid a visit yesterday evening.  Through the magic of digital photography and the Internet, you can share their experience via the following photos.  The first photo shows the welcoming display of rose blooms along the driveway, and the second photo shows the back yard and the esteemed visitors.  If you feel like "surfing the web", here is a link to the web site (blog) of the Salem Rose Society:  Click here to transfer to the SRS blog    (But don't forget to come back here !)

Photo taken:  June 15, 2015

Photo taken:  June 15, 2015

Update of August 31, 2015:    Please allow me to introduce you to the "ground cover" that you see amongst the driveway roses in the upper photo.  It's not as exotic as the liverworts and mosses in the back yard rose bed, but I like it just the same.  The name of the humble yet indomitable cover is Sagina procumbens.  In the driveway bed I treat it with respect, and it gives a bit of a wild aura to the rose display.  Examining the lower photo, there's some Sagina in the back yard also.  There it is in the circular wells surrounding the 'Queen Elizabeth' roses interspersed in the lawn.