'Darcy Bussell', always a flower or two
An inconvenient feature of Blogger is that the order of photos changes if you upload photos in a group. I planned a before/after rain narrative for this post. Blogger decided otherwise. Since I'm desperate to get outside to garden, these are left in blogger-order. It's glorious outside today!
After the rain, a rain-celebration trip to a favorite nursery. I bought a few things. Returned the "Please Close The Gate" sign before we left, because misread the price, thinking it was a lot less expensive than it was. More on the things next post. I'm in a hurry.
Beloved graciously agreed to take some nursery photos:I'm carefully examining the "specialty succulents" section, which has exotic plants on occasion. Not that day:This was going to be the first photo of the nursery visit section, me celebrating the glorious winter visit to a wonderful nursery, but blogger had other ideas.Let me at them plants!
Ah here's the Before rain section, showing two of the three roses I got into the ground before the rain, two that I'd dug up last year and potted up to await replanting. A 'Tamora' on the left, 'Moondance' to the right:Here's the During rain part: We got wonderful rain, 2"+, after a dry January/early
February. Three waves of rain over 5 days leaving us a rain-season total on the gauge of 13.97", not including the 2-3" missing due to a
ladybeetle clogging the gauge back in...ummm...November?
We're now above our historic average (~13") for the rainy season. Hooray!
Happy garden, happy gardener. A few last roses admired before I finished pruning....before the rain.
'Firefighter', always a pleasure to photograph because it perfumes the air so I inhale as I admire...mmmm!
While 'Princesse Charlene de Monaco' had one gorgeous cluster of blooms at the top of a 10' cane (note to self: restrict the N for Charlene'). Delicious delicate range of colors. Sweet perfume, too:
The color range of the flowers reminds me of 'Gruss an Aachen'.Blogger changed the subject abruptly--more and more Iris opening. This was before the rain, too:Also before the rain, and before I mulched, the 3rd rose I got planted, a new one called 'Light Years Away'. Weeks Roses, I am sorry to say this, but your rose names have been an embarrassment for several years now. Roses are not a children's sugar-stuffed artificially flavored, artificially colored breakfast cereal.I gotta get back into the garden. In haste...
I hate Blogger and so wished I had went with something else. I seriously considered changing but why go to that headache? Hooray for the rain, although I'm ready for ours to go away. We've received so much in the last week.
ReplyDeleteI can feel your joy in that photo after-rain visit to Plant Depot! I'd be happy if I had roses like those in bloom but such is not the case here. I've done very little planting or plant shopping, spending an incredible amount of time weeding and pruning with still no end in sight.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, I love the "Let me at 'em" arms in the air photo. I share the frustration with blogger - posts would be so much quicker to do if you could upload (in order) all the photos at once. Have fun out there!
ReplyDeleteI've seen these comments before about your platform loading photos the wrong way...weird! The rain was glorious, everything is still saturated. I know your roses are loving it!
ReplyDeleteI am glad you got rain! The blogger issue sounds like a pain. I sometimes wonder about what other people have to do to put out a blog post, and this gives a glimpse behind the scenes. You are so lucky to get out there and to a nursery that looks stocked full of good stuff. Love the roses. I can only imagine how difficult it is to come up with new names that haven't already been used. I know an iris breeder who has to consult a loooooong list of names and try to find something new. It must be even worse for roses given how many hundreds (thousands?) that have been hybridized. Sometimes I have fun coming up with my own names for plants, pretending like I am a famous horticulturist who has come up with something new.
ReplyDeleteThe nursery visit feels like you won a shopping spree, working with beloved like the well practiced team that you are, not wasting one single minute that could better be spent in the garden. Glad your energy is back!
ReplyDeleteMany pretty roses lost their scent through the hybridizing process so whenever they are still perfumed I'm quite forgiving of their silly name.
'Firefighter'! Perfection.
Chavli
Glad you got out to do some plant shopping! That reordering of photos is so irritating! Gerhard helped me with a work around. Before loading the photos go to the HTML view (the drop down menu on the far left, with the pen icon) and delete the code that's there and paste this:
ReplyDeleteT then go back to Compose view, put your curser to the right of the T and hit enter. Then upload your photos.
I see that Blogger deleted what I shared for you to paste, ugh! Here I'm trying again, with the important bits in parenthesis: (
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thanks for trying on that. I'll search on blogger photo reordering workaround and see what I can find. in haste....hb
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