I drive up to the house every day, see the bushes just exploding with color and literally say, "ooooh" or "wow!" or "soooo pretty" or something of that nature to my steering wheel or whatever other entity in my car is listening to me.
Absolutely stunning!
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| Harder to see from a distance and with the horrid heat pump dominating the view, but the side bushes are spectacular as well. |
Even my little baby one in the wildflower border which has had a rough few years (basically brought it back from the brink of death!) is doing better than ever!
Typically the leaves on our roses get eaten to a pulp by little green leafhoppers before we remember to spray. This means we have scraggly, brown-edged and fewer roses. Still beautiful, but struggling.
But this year, I think the difference could be that the blooms started earlier because of the warmer temps; before the bugs had a chance to destroy the health of the bushes.So they are just spectacular!
And husband sprayed once I saw the leaf holes starting!
In related news, was talking with a coworker, swapping stories and photos of our beauties and she loved my really light pink one I have along the side of the house. I told her I'd look for the color at the nursery I was going to that day. She says, "or you could just give me a cutting of yours".
[blank stare]
[brain sloooowly starts processing, "wait, this is familiar...cuttings of roses, planting rose cuttings...think it's a thing...]
"Are you serious?! You can really just plant a cutting?!"
"Yes!"
Google searching confirms: yes, of course you can.
So by golly, you're looking at {the writing of} a full-fledged gardener who made softwood rose cuttings (know what those are now!) and has passed them off to be planted! I mean, this feels like we've moved into Gardening 201 or maybe even 301!
Cross your fingers for them to take root!
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