Yesterday's Blooms, and the First Day of Summer

11 years ago

Yesterday there was finally enough roses blooming to get a few decent pictures. It hasn't rained here in almost three weeks, not even a sprinkle! Whenever the rain comes to the area, it seems to hit all the areas surrounding me, and miss my house :( So...there's not a lot blooming, plus the japanese beetles have a arrived, and I'm seeing more wasps than bees which is preventing me from getting too close to the blooms! We're suppossed to hopefully get some rain tomorrow...cross your fingers! :)

Tammy

Cirtus Burst CL

Hot Cocoa

Sunshine Daydream

Hannah Gordon

Baron Prevost

Cancan

Paul Neyron (first bloom EVER!)

Caramel Fairytale

Gideon Lincecum

SDLM Rouge

Tenacious (its still very small and the blooms aren't well formed, but it has the most amazing color!)

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TNY78
Original Author
11 years ago
oops...that last one is Nimbus, not Tinacious!
Krista_5NY
11 years ago
Great pics, I like the vibrant color of Cancan.

I recently added Paul Neyron to the garden, I love the blooms and fragrance.
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bethnorcal9
11 years ago
Lovely photos Tammy! That HANNAH GORDON is just gorgeous! And I like CANCAN. Hmmm have to look that one up.
hosenemesis
11 years ago
Hannah Gordon is a beautiful thing. Thanks!
Renee
serenasyh
11 years ago
Oooo, I love the proportion of stripings on your Climber Citrus Burst, very lovely bud for Caramel Fairytale, and Baron Prevost is lookin' great!

Lol, Tammy, I have a few rare sightings of JBs (knock on wood). I will actually pull them off of the petals or sandwich pluck them out between a kleenex tissue and sadistically squeeeeeeze and kill 'em! I don't use soapy water because the residue sticks to my bucket and I don't want to risk accidentally watering my roses with a soap-residued bucket in all likelihood, hehe! Plus continually dumping bucket after bucket of soapy water just for a few JBs is a bit hard on the city water supply (I am reluctant to dump into the gutter drain).
dublinbay z6 (KS)
11 years ago
Love Sunshine Daydream and Paul Neyron--the others are lovely also.

Don't worry too much about those wasps. First of all, they are not aggressive and have no real interest in stinging you. Secondly, they are probably there so they can sting the JBs. I'm no wasps expert, but one or more varieties of them are JB Killers! So celebrate when you see them!

Kate
TNY78
Original Author
11 years ago
ewww Serenasyh.....I can't stand that crunching sound! lol...I don't do the bucket thing either, its just a losing battle!

Kate, I haven't heard that about wasps jilling them...interesting...I have a new found respect for the wasps :)

Tammy