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I must visit Arizona some day

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I was just thinking about our recent trip to Las Vegas and how lovely the scenery was as we flew over Arizona and Nevada.

We got to see a bit of the Grand Canyon from the airplane window and the rest of the landscape we saw was so beautiful! I love the red rock and rich colored sands of Arizona.

I’d love to visit the State sometime. Hey perhaps when I get older I’ll even look for Arizona real estate and retire there. Why not? So many other people go to Arizona to retire.

I wish I’d thought of trying to take some photos from the plane. They probably wouldn’t be that great, but I could at least have shown you what I saw from so far above.

Have you been to Arizona? Is it as lovely as I think it is?





A hardy rose

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I grow a very hardy rose, Theresa Bugnet, in a large planter at the front of my house just to one side of my porch. The rose is so hardy that, unlike many other roses, it’s able to survive our winters in a planter.

This rose produces beautiful blooms with a heavenly scent several times each season and since it’s of the rugosa family it doesn’t have many pests and it’s affected by powdery mildew very often either. In fact this rose hates pesticides and chemicals so along with it’s built in resistance to disease this makes it very easy to care for in the garden.

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Dropmore Scarlet Honeysuckle

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Dropmore Scarlet Honeysuckle bloom

Dropmore Scarlet Honeysuckle is supposed to be red, as the name implies, but in this photo the flowers seem to be pinkish don’t they?

Other times, when viewed in the garden, the flowers seems to have more orange in them and at other times they seem red. I guess this is one of those plants who’s flowers can change color slightly with the seasons or due to temperatures.

The Dropmore Scarlet Honeysuckle is a vine and it’s one of the hardiest vines you can purchase. However, having said that, mine didn’t do so well in the garden this year. I don’t know if it’s because we didn’t water as much this past year as we normally do or if something else was wrong.

I didn’t prune it in the spring. Perhaps it needs a pruning each year. I’ll have to look that up and see if I can make this plant do well next year.

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