A Yard Full

  I have many plants in my yard and a few days after the hurricane Ike, came through this beautiful rose, was blooming and so were many other flowers in my yard………wouldn’t it be nice if things this pretty would stay around and be this beautiful longer?    I can always count on these two to bloom for me, even when the others don’t.

The sky is teasing me… If I think it’s going to rain, I’ve got another think coming.. It does this every few days. The surrounding areas here where I live, get the much needed rain, in fact they get too much. I must not be living right, it will rain, everywhere else, and bypass my dry dying lawn.

My poor vegetable garden has burn up and I didn’t get very many nice veggies, because of the drought in our area. The heat has almost killed everything, and I only water when I have to.

The breeze is getting cooler, so someone is getting rain……..just not me!

I love roses…….I was told many years ago, that if you want roses, you’d better grow them yourself. Because if you wait on a man to give you roses, you’ll be waiting a long time…..unless your one of the lucky few women in this world.

So, you can see I grew my own………

They have weathered the storms we have been having lately. I keep pinching the dead hips off, so they will make new blooms….. ……………….. I’m glad I fertilized the other day, it rained the next and watered it right in.

I now have beautiful roses blooming in my yard. This is the same bush in full bloom now.

They say if you can’t get someone to buy you roses, then grow your own, and so I did. this is the first few blooms and now it’s in full array. The next rose is my yellow rose and the bud was taken before it opened, one week ago this lovely rose, was the bud above
This is the bud that started out the next picture here’s the beautiful rose that opened from the bud.

This bush has many buds yet unopened but it will be full once they do.  This is just my front yard, the backyard has a vegetable garden in it.  I’ve put pictures of it here, in previous posts.

Back in January I pruned the rose bushes back so they become a thicker bush and produce larger roses.  I notice this weather has brought out new shoots of growth in the last week.  It won’t be long until I will need to fertilize and let the rain do it’s job.