Last year, our roses did very poorly and this particular climber had no blooms at all.
This year, it's thriving and blooming -- and is as beautiful as I can ever remember.
Perhaps it was the mild winter we experienced. In any event, I'm loving these roses!
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Do you have roses?
Are they doing better or worse this year as compared to last?
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I wish I could easily grow roses but they really won't for me :((
ReplyDeleteYour climbers are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI have a red Knockout rosebush - super easy to care for.
I do have roses and I love them - I want the scented ones (since there are ones that doesn´t smell). Would feel weird with a rose that I can´t smell! :-)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. I haven't seen one bloom on my roses.
ReplyDeleteThey are just gorgeous Nancy - the climbing effect shows them off beautifully too :D)
ReplyDeleteAll three of my rose bushes survived the mild winter (they are planted in wooden tubs on the porch---deer can't reach them!), and I added another one more than a month ago. The foliage and canes look so healthy, and I'm excited to see what happens a month or so from now.
ReplyDeleteI'm loving your roses as well Nancy ♥ So truly red and charming!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shot,thanks for hosting :)
ReplyDeleteThey look great (for sure this year)!
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Love those roses.
ReplyDeleteI do have some roses too..but here in Portugal...they are just blooming...
have a blessed day, dear!
BShell
your climbers are gorgeous, nancy.
ReplyDeletethanks so much for hosting.
Lovely photo of your roses, Nancy.
ReplyDeleteThis is the second Spring for our 3 red Knock-Out roses and they are just full of blooms and have tripled in size!
Wishing you a blessed day.
Beautiful roses! We have a rose bush out front that currently has two flowers on it. The beetles were eating the leaves, though, so I had to dust it.
ReplyDeleteLovely! I had a gorgeous climbing rose that produced tons of blooms the spring my daughter got married. We floated them in the fountain in the courtyard. Alas, that winter when I emptied the fireplace ashes on it, I put too many and killed it. I was so sad! I still have a pink old fashioned rose bush that smells heavenly though :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful roses darling....love from Ria...xxx...
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and exciting! I did plant a knock out rose this year. Will see if it survives.
ReplyDeleteThat is a beautiful rose! I am hoping our Don Juan climbers do well this year - they were moved last year and suffered some...but the rest of my roses are doing very well! I have a fragrant rose garden - some of those thorns are brutal though!
ReplyDeleteI am the worst rose grower. I keep trying and trying...
ReplyDeleteThanks goodness there are bloggers like you who do it so beautifully and share their lovely photos.
Here I am!! I remembered to join Rural Thursday today. So glad too, because otherwise I would have missed your climbing roses! Awesome, Nancy!!
ReplyDeleteoh yours are beautiful! i haven't roses since we left ca...i had quite a few there..
ReplyDeleteTell your Rose to Climb over here. . . . Beautiful red . . .
ReplyDeleteNew Dawn, small, very small is my only Rose. I hope it as survived the frost . . .
Have never had good luck with roses. But this year I did get a Knock Out Rose to try. I am hopeful it will do well!
ReplyDeleteSince you asked ... yes, I have roses. Lots of roses. Most are doing very well, but some are awful.
ReplyDeleteThe awful ones? The modern hybrid teas. The old garden roses, with their brautiful colors and fantastic fragrances, are going gang-busters.
There's nothing special about growing roses. Most folks psych themselves out.
How wonderful to have a grand recovery in your roses! We have little wild roses but they aren't blooming yet.
ReplyDeleteI love roses, outside my apartment the sidewalk is lined with rose bushes!
ReplyDeleteYour roses are lovely! Joining yur party for the first time, and I am a new follower too!
ReplyDeleteI love Roses.. And they grow so good here in the desert. I don't know why I don't have a rose bush.. I guess I need to make a run to the nursery.
ReplyDeleteHugs~
I planted a double knock out rose bush last year, and it's already full of blooms. I tried taking pictures, but they turn out neon-like. Even when I underexpose, I just can't seem to get the exposure right. Any ideas?
ReplyDeleteNo roses here yet that I've seen in my yard or along my bus route. The Rhododendrons are all in full bloom and are spectacular right now (oh Azaleas too)... thanks for hosting Nancy... still under the weather here, working but now again back on steroids again for my asthma.. third time in a month.
ReplyDeleteMine have not bloomed yet :(
ReplyDeleteBut I can't wait. Mine are really really fragrant and bug Shawn's allergies but they are too pretty...and I'm the woman who tends the garden...therefore they stay :)
Lovely shot. I'm sure they smell wonderful too!
ReplyDeletemy roses "were" awesome so far this year. now, i am afraid to go and check them now, after all this rain we just got.
ReplyDeletei have heard that blooming anything, alternates....one good year, one bad year. i always see that with my dogwood.
gorgeous photo, i like the verse.
thanks for hosting....i see in numbers, i am way behind!!
Beautiful photo, and I love the proverb you included! Very nice!!!
ReplyDeleteThey're beautiful, but I'll leave the roses to the more ambitious, I'm not one to grow them! heheheee
ReplyDeleteHi Nancy - yes, I have roses, but your's are way farther along than mine are here in the Pacific Northwest.
ReplyDeleteno roses here. managed to kill the 2 bushes that were here before i arrived.
ReplyDeleteI have seen many nice ones lately, must be a good year for many
ReplyDeleteAll of my roses were the most beautiful that I'd ever seen them until we had a hard freeze a couple weeks ago. They look sort of frazzled now, I'm hoping they snap out of it and start blooming again.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty, you have such patience. I probably would have torn those out.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first summer in this home so I don't know how they did the year before, but they look pretty good now. Recently, I discovered agapanthus growing in my garden, so hopefully I can share a photo of it later today.
ReplyDeleteLove your roses and quote!
Beautiful Rose joy !!!
ReplyDeleteHere in New Hampshire we are still a ways away from rose blooming. Mine bloom in July. I think I may have lost one to the wierd winter we had but I am looking forward to their sweetness in summer.
Happy Thursday !
Simply. Gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI love the photo and the quote!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely Gorgeous my friend!
ReplyDeleteI tried roses for a number of years, but the deer would always get after them in the winter (they were hungry too). So I gave up! We have a huge issue with the deer, the squirrels and the chipmunks eating everything in sight in our yard!
ReplyDeleteSeems like all our plants are doing great so far! Glad yours are. Have a great day
ReplyDeleteI have had one bloom so far. I do admit I don't take real good care of it...pruning and feeding. That may be the problem.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful roses! I am not a gardener but I inherited a rose bush from the former owner of this house. It never bloomed much for eight years, then it was damaged in a snow storm the winter before last and went kind of crazy blooming. This past October, it was crushed by that freak snowstorm that we had and it looks better than ever. I think it just likes abuse.
ReplyDeleteLove those roses! Around here we call them "deer food." On our property we have terrible soil, a high water table, and fierce winds. Some folks around here manage to cultivate beautiful roses, but not in our neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteI have never tried to grow roses, but I hear the desert soil is perfect for growing them. Maybe I should give it a shot sometime. Yours are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteLove your post about the roses, my dad, who past away 6 years ago, whas crazy about roses and he has many in his garden, now they are all gone in those last years. So pitty. But when I put a bouquet in the vase I must alway's think about him and most of the time I put it by his potret.
ReplyDeleteThe picture of the climbing roses is a delight. I love the faded colours which bring about a feeling of old time.
ReplyDeleteI just planted two rose bushes this spring when I redid the landscaping in front of our house. I don't think I'll get any flowers this year but hopefully by next year they will be blooming! Yours are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI love roses and have mainly climbing ones here. When they are out the scent seems to circle the house! Joan
ReplyDeleteThe rose is such a pretty flower - I don't have any in our garden but when I was growing up at home my dad grew quite a few of them.
ReplyDeleteHope yours continue to flourish.
My poor old rose bush is just really getting a good start for the year. It's still trying to recover from last year's chronic pruning by the goats. :-)
ReplyDeleteMy roses are doing better this year thanks to a little extra winter/spring rain, even the one that the rootstock has taken over! LOL!!
ReplyDeleteMany many, repeat many, years ago my mother had climbing roses growing on a trellis across the back of the yard. The smell was magnificent and the view was unbelievable. They are long gone and I thank you for this sweet memory. Hugs!
ReplyDeleteI'm beat up after the past week I've had...
ReplyDeleteI'll try to participate next Thursday.. ok?
Meanwhile, you changed your blog design / title page. I liked the old version. I was surprised to see it different. Just letting you know. You may do as you wish. It's your blog for heaven sake's. I know I'm the same, I will eventually change mine, too.
~ Renae
Pretty Nancy. I dug up some of the wild rose bush that I had back at our Illinois home and planted it here, right now that's the only rose plant I have.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful rose. Beautiful picture, love your editing. Love the birdhouse in the BG. No roses on the Tiny Ten but they may have to change. Love all the roses, flowers and strawberries I am seeing in posts!
ReplyDeleteWell, we all have an off year. I can't grow anything but I tried to grow a rose tree once. Paid $200 for two trees and picked out two big pots and the nursery brought it out to me in a truck.
ReplyDeleteThey lasted less than a month.
I do love roses but it's sort of a touchy point with me. Since we built a new house in the woods on Oak Hill my roses couldn't successfully follow our move. I'm big on hostas these days.... :)
ReplyDeleteI have no roses ~ but I am hoping it a good year for the flower garden!
ReplyDeletexo Catherine
Love roses! I have 3 rose bushes that are doing very well. It was great to set the table last night with a single rose- salmon colored.
ReplyDeleteJen
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