Wednesday, May 15, 2013

May Bloom Day

There are a lot of flowers so I had to do this over a period of a couple of days.  To see other bloggers, blooms...Click HERE for May Dreams Gardens.  I have well over 100 rose bushes so I did not label/or take individual pictures of them all.
Back Rose Garden

Green Ice

Blue Girl

Ch-Ching


Sunny Knockout




Rock & Roll

Sundowner

Orlando

Climbing Golden Showers

Climbing Golden Showers

Purple Tiger

Olympiad

Gypsy

Tangerine Streams

Gold Medal

Europena

Climbing Iceberg

Europena

Back Rose bed

Altissimo

Altissimo

Altissimo

Knockout


Unknown pink rose

Electron

Rainbow Knockout

Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth

Lady Diana

Hydrangea bed


Bougainvillea and Hibiscus
Back porch container plants

Begonia

Thorned begonia
 Back porch flower bed
Zinnia

Bottlebrush

Pinata


Pinata up close

Front porch flower bed

Hydrangea
Moss Roses
 Front yard flowers
Lilies

Impatient

Mexican Petunia

Gold Medallion

Icebergs

Iceberg closeup

Endless Summer Hydrangeas are blooming

Hydrangeas

Memphis Music

Mexican Heather

Magnolias

Magnolias

I have a tree that has tiny magnolias in it.  My mother suggested removing the tree.  But it is pretty in bloom.  It is the tallest tree in the rose garden.

Purple Tiger

Olympiad

Gypsy

Orlando

Double Delight


Sundowner

Gold Medallion

Paradise

Double Knockout

Climbing Golden Shower

Climbing American Blaze



Impatient

Peaches are growing

Wild Lantana

I don't remember the name of these but they smell fabulous

Weeping willow...no, not in bloom

Museum that I volunteer at.....I take care of the roses and the butterfly garden

Magnolia



Stormy Weather that I have been taking care of.

Stormy Weather



Side rose garden


Back rose garden from porch




Moss Roses

Mums


Journal Notes
Took me seven hours last feeding day for roses...I found this at the thrift store..yeah!

Mowed front field



Put in irrigation manifold for back rose garden

10 comments:

Lea said...

Wow! I'm overwhelmed looking at all those roses!
Other blooms pretty, too! I am rather fond of Moss Rose- such a sturdy little plant with so many beautiful colors.
Happy Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day!
Lea
Lea's Menagerie

Cerberus German shepherds said...

I have yet to figure out moss roses. Moss roses are in my rose books but those aren't these...they open about once a day when the sun hits them and they are annuals if I don't put them in the greenhouse.

Jean Campbell said...

Moss roses in the rose books are a real rose, very old with a mossy growth on the sepals and stems.

Rose moss annual is Portulaca, not related to roses are all but called moss rose/rose moss because the flowers look like little roses. I don't know why it's called moss. It comes from South America, great for hot dry areas.

Cerberus German shepherds said...

Thanks Nell...I knew they were called Moss roses but I knew they were not roses....

bookworm said...

WOW! I have to admit - when we bought our house (upstate New York) years ago, there were two rose bushes - we ended up taking them both out because the Japanese Beetles were so bad, and we do not use inorganic pesticides. I have never seen many of these roses. You have quite a collection.

Unknown said...

Beautiful! I love blue girl. I feel like I can smell her even when I look at pictures of her!

Cerberus German shepherds said...

@bookworm...I definitely took on an ambitious project with the huge rose garden. I have been gardening barely over a year...the one thing I learned is that if you are going to plant a lot of plants, especially high maintenance plants like roses...group them. I do have to deal with pests...I have used sprays but not sure if their effectiveness. I do think the Bayer Advanced all in one helps...and I want to say coffee grounds do to...can you imagine being a bug eating a coffee ground?

Cerberus German shepherds said...

@Nadia...I looked up if they actually had a blue rose...which is the holy grail of colors for roses and it appears that they do not...I think this is odd since there are purples..you would think that blue would be possible..and it might be...blue girl is a lavender looking rose....but it does appear a bit blue in the picture...its really a pink purple..

scottweberpdx said...

Wow...I've never seen so many roses in one garden before...happy Bloom Day!

Cerberus German shepherds said...

@scott...I seem to have an obsession with having different types of roses...this back rose bed will probably act as my trial gardens for the rest of the property.