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The rose named Prince Napoleon

August 17, 2008 by Tricia

This rose, Prince Napoleon, is an antique rose. It’s a climber that reaches about 10 to 12 feet tall in my garden each year.

I love this roses delicate pink flowers. It also has a true rose scent that perfumes my garden nicely each morning or after I’ve watered.

That’s one trick that I’ve learned over the years … If you are going to be sitting out in the garden and you want to enjoy the smell of your scented plants water the garden about an hour before you want to sit outside. This seems to work best in the early morning or evening. I’ve done this a few times when we’ve been expecting guests or having an outdoor dinner party and everyone always seems to appreciate the beautiful scent of the flowers.

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Heavy Labor?

August 13, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

As the cyclists pass by the Hay Man toils at his task, pushing that huge bale of hay …

I love this shot. I wonder how they made the hay man?

Potted plants on my front porch

August 10, 2008 by Tricia

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Each year, in early summer, I spend some time planting annuals in large pots to put on or near my front porch.

I also do all of the hanging baskets and window boxes at the same time. It’s quite a chore as I use window boxes along the side of my driveway between my house and the neighbors. The boxes are on the ground, but they work well to create a large display of flowers in the otherwise dark driveway. (I plant impatiens in those planter boxes).

I’m quite happy with my flower arrangements this year. Here’s some pictures of the planters closest to my front door.

As you can see the planters are filled with Petunias, Geranium, Impatiens and Spikes.

Having a potted planter near the front steps isn’t necessary, but I think one or two well placed planters help make the front of a house look more welcoming.

Do you use planters at the front of your house or on your steps?

Our Lab puppy sure has grown!

August 6, 2008 by Tricia

Wordless Wednesday

Midnight at 15 weeks old:

Midnight – a day short of 11 months old (44 weeks)

When she was only 15 months old she barely took up one cushion on our couch and less than a third of the width. Now that she’s 11 months old and much much bigger she takes up more than one couch cushion (more like half the couch when she stretches out!) and almost the full width of the cushion.

BTW she was watching TV while chewing on a toy in both pictures. She loves sitting on the couch and watching TV with us.

She’s grown a lot in the 7+ months that we’ve had her, yet she’s still a little on the small side for a Lab of her age. That’s ok though … she’s very strong. I can’t imagine how much worse it would be to be dragged around by her on a walk if she were even bigger!

She’s cute though! Or I think she is, anyway!

My little rose garden

August 3, 2008 by Tricia

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I grow roses in my front yard and back yard gardens. My front yard is very tiny … there’s maybe only a 10 by 8 foot plot of grass and I have that bordered with raised flower beds.

These are some of the lovely roses that I grow in my front yard:

This is Iceberg. It’s an easy to grow Floribunda rose.

Another pretty rose that grows against the front of my house is The Fairy. It produces clusters of tiny pink roses almost constantly throughout the summer.

This rose is Yves Piaget. It’s a Romantica rose. I love it’s full double petals and delicate scent.

My Morden Sunrise Explorer Rose is doing very well this year. It always has lovely blooms throughout the growing season, but this year it has twice as many flowers as it usually does. It’s quite happy and as you can see from the photo below it’s also quite pretty.

I have a total of nine roses growing in my small front flower beds along with peonies, daylilies, blue fescue grass, oriental poppy, bee balm, pincushion flowers, hostas, sedum, Russian sage, and many more perennials, plus several kinds of spring bulbs, and annuals such as petunia and impatiens.

You can see a picture of my front yard on my gardening blog – I know the flower beds sound like they must be packed with plants just from the list of the plants I can remember off the top of my head above, but it really doesn’t look too full. Take a look.

Do you garden just in one specific part of your yard (front or back) or do you create flower beds where ever you can make space for them like me)?