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My Garden Journal- 6/5/10

So the blog bit the dust! I didn't have time to maintain it anyway. This year I decided to go back the old standard web page. This will be much easier for me to keep up. Hey, it works for me. LOL

I guess we're going to build a page for each week. It's simple and I should be able to keep up with it. I have a few roses that I am unable to identify do to lost tags, moving stuff around, or I just plain can't remember. I'm also posting a page for unknowns and hopefully a few rose people can help me identify what they are.

Week of June 5, 2010- At the top of the table I'm looking to identify the first two white and yellow roses. I've lost the tags.

May 10, 2009- It’s Mother’s Day- So why did I start this page. Simple, I have a ton of friends who love to garden. They ask questions and I answer them as best I can. They want to see pictures of the roses I grow and I post them.

Basically, I’m doing it for myself. I forget what I have planted. I don’t mark things. My husband weeds for me. Many times my flowers have been victims of his over zealous ambitions. But there is one thing he knows better than touch… My roses. I have over 57 different roses.

I will water, weed, feed, fight black spot, and Japanese beetles for my roses. Nothing is done on a regular schedule like it should be. All chores are usually done on the “Oh Shit Schedule.” It’s more or less based on the “Oh shit, I have black spot. Oh shit, the beetles are back. Oh, shit look at the weeds.” LOL I practice shovel pruning. If I don’t like it, it goes. It usually doesn’t leave the yard it just gets moved to my nursery garden where all things go that I’m not happy with or I'll foster it off on someone

In addition to roses I have a ton of other plants. Mostly perennials and bulbs dot our little acre. I have four clematises that I love dearly. Two of them were planted by my father and I have nursed them along since 1993. Peonies, Daffodils(or Jonquils to some), Pacific Giant Primrose, Hibiscus, Irises up the wazoo, hostas, and much much more.

I’m fortunate enough to have an apple tree, two pear trees, lilac trees, and a ton of hardwood trees. I have a roddy that kicks butt when in bloom but was damaged from a storm in 2007. A climbing Hydrangea is making its home on an arbor. I have lilies everywhere, I love them. I have fairy, oriental, and day.

But, my prize possessions are my roses and the sentimental plants I’ve planted with or for my parents. The roddy was a gift from us to my mother on Mother’s Day. My father planted the Clematis many moons ago. The apple tree was DOA in a bag at a big box store and mother nursed it along.

So what’s blooming in my Garden so far this year? Well, I haven’t whipped the camera out yet but I do have some old photos from the last few years. They can be found at the links below. My tulips, Cranapple Iris, Soapwart, Pacific Giant Primrose, Roddy, Apple Tree, and Daffodils are all in bloom.

First up- The beauties from last year- Just Click on the Links-

Brigadoon- Shot 1

Love- Shot 1

Mardi Gras- Shot 1
Some of my older shots are located at Web Shots- I’m going to post newer pics as the season goes on. However, those will be posted here.

The old Albums

Of course, since this is my first entry I have to post a pick of my all time favorited. Joseph’s Coat

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