Every once in a while I like to take some "panorama" (i.e. stitched) photos of the major rose growing areas around the house. You will definitely want to click on these photos to enlarge them. The first photo shows the big rose bed in the back yard. Toward the left in this photo is a 7 foot tall 'Queen Elizabeth' rose, easy to recognize because today it is displaying many pretty pink blooms. This particular rose bush is a parent of many seedlings in this same bed, many of which now stand between 6 and 8 feet tall. The second photo shows the roses growing along the driveway in the front yard, a real challenging spot because of the sloping terrain -- a steep north-south slope (top to bottom in the photo) and a less steep west-east slope (left to right in the photo). Well placed circular edging around each bush allows water to remain in place.
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| Photos stitched on July 2, 2017 |
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| Photos stitched on July 2, 2017 |
Update of July 12, 2017: Not to be neglected is the rest of the back yard (photo below on the left), which features 5 store-bought 'Queen Elizabeth' roses that are now a little over 10 years old. In the stitched photo below, they are the ones with the pink blooms. The rose bush with 3 orange blooms is the hybrid tea rose 'Voodoo', which was the only rose on the property when I moved here 10 years ago; I transplanted it to the back yard so that it would have some company. In the two corners in back by the fence are a couple of
Rosa glauca species roses which are also over 10 years old.
The photo to the right gives another perspective of the back yard, as seen when exiting the back door and approaching the rose garden.
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| Photos stitched on July 8, 2017 |
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| Photos stitched on July 12, 2017 |
