This blog is celebrating its 8th anniversary today. I encourage you to scroll down to find the "
Blog Archive" and then select the year 2011. Therein you will find 12 posts, the first being recorded on December 5, 2011. If you read the 12 posts, you will gain great insight into my rose growing history. With that in mind, let's see where the rose garden is today. The roses have had their light November pruning and are thus ready for Winter. One rose bush still had some very late blooms on it, so I left them undisturbed. You can see it in the back, close to the garden shed. Note also the long shadow for this time of year, even though the photo was taken around noon time.
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The main rose bed
Photo taken: December 4, 2019 |
Let's take a closer look at the rose bush with the almost opened blooms. It is a seedling of one of my 'Queen Elizabeth' roses and has blooms of 5 petals each. The seedling was born on March 20, 2010, so it is now just 3 months away from its 10th birthday. It took only 4 months for the seedling to show its first bloom, as seen in the second photo --
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| Photo taken: December 4, 2019 |
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First bloom
Photo taken: July 16, 2010 |
