Roses

September 29, 2007 What honeybee shortage? The bees were a-buzzin’ on the ‘Carefree Beauty’ roses this morning. After a hot and muggy week, a cool front moved through early this morning, lowering the temperature by only a few degrees but blissfully drying out the air. The fresh breeze enticed me ...

August 29, 2007 ‘Valentine’ rose. The new camera handled the saturated red pretty well. Kids are back in school. Classes began at the University of Texas today, adding 48,000 college students to our city’s population. The temperature remains surprisingly low for August (low 90s), and we even got a few ...

August 29, 2007 ‘Valentine’ rose. The new camera handled the saturated red pretty well. Kids are back in school. Classes began at the University of Texas today, adding 48,000 college students to our city’s population. The temperature remains surprisingly low for August (low 90s), and we even got a few ...

August 16, 2007 Mexican oregano and white narrowleaf zinnia Yesterday I spent 8 hours in the car, driving home from a visit to my mom’s, so I missed Bloom Day. The temperature in Tulsa soared over 100 every day, but Mom still had a number of plants blooming, including cleome, ...

August 16, 2007 Mexican oregano and white narrowleaf zinnia Yesterday I spent 8 hours in the car, driving home from a visit to my mom’s, so I missed Bloom Day. The temperature in Tulsa soared over 100 every day, but Mom still had a number of plants blooming, including cleome, ...

July 14, 2007 ‘Belinda’s Dream’ is wide awake after all the rain we received recently. Although I missed Bloom Day in June because of my travel schedule, I’m happy to participate this month. The roses and salvias are enjoying a lush rebloom thanks to cooler than normal temperatures and ample ...

July 14, 2007 ‘Belinda’s Dream’ is wide awake after all the rain we received recently. Although I missed Bloom Day in June because of my travel schedule, I’m happy to participate this month. The roses and salvias are enjoying a lush rebloom thanks to cooler than normal temperatures and ample ...

June 03, 2007 Echinacea purpurea For anyone who’s in the mood for pink today, as I was—pink power! Echinacea , ‘Powis Castle’ artemesia, Salvia greggii, ‘Belinda’s Dream’ rose, and spineless prickly pear ‘Belinda’s Dream’ resting on the fence Crowd of echinaceas Imperfect ‘Carefree Beauty’ rose Artemesia with purple coneflower and ...

May 29, 2007 My red, red rose, ‘Valentine,’ rebloomed this week, after a period of seeming broken-hearted. It had flowered wonderfully in early spring, but by April it had started to defoliate and by May it was twiggy and pitiful looking. It never turned fully brown, however, like MSS’s roses ...

May 17, 2007 Salvia guaranitica—love those blues! I’ve been covering Gardens on Tour 2007 all week, and I have one more to show you tomorrow (my favorite of the bunch, actually), but I decided to give you a little tour of my own garden today. It differs from my Bloom ...

April 25, 2007 BSN’s modest sign welcomes visitors, along with roses tumbling over agave and prickly pear. Hmm, I wonder where I picked up that roses-and-cactus aesthetic? With sunny skies and warm, humid temperatures promising a typical spring day in Austin, I decided to pay a visit to an atypical ...

April 20, 2007 Purple prickly pear (Opuntia macrocentra) flower Blazing! No, I’m not describing the temperatures in Austin yet. It’s been remarkably temperate for the past few weeks, and today has been lovely too, about 80 degrees with a cool breeze. No, it’s the late-spring light that’s blazing, causing certain ...

April 14, 2007 Purple prickly pear On Bloom Day this April, sweet spring is in full swing in the garden. Sensory impressions: the delicious scent of ‘Marie Pavie’ roses; hot pink roses near the street that I’ve dubbed “Stop ’em dead roses”; birdsong in the back garden and peep-peeps from ...

April 14, 2007 Purple prickly pear On Bloom Day this April, sweet spring is in full swing in the garden. Sensory impressions: the delicious scent of ‘Marie Pavie’ roses; hot pink roses near the street that I’ve dubbed “Stop ’em dead roses”; birdsong in the back garden and peep-peeps from ...

April 03, 2007 ‘Carefree Beauty’ rose April feels carefree in the Austin garden. Lush growth continues apace, thanks to spring rains and warm but not yet blisteringly hot weather. More flowers open every day. The garden seems to rush headlong into spring. You can almost watch it growing. Of course, ...

March 19, 2007 Quiet, little purple oxalis has begun flowering under the daylily foliage. The green eyes pick up the green of the daylily leaves, and the pale lilac petals faintly echo the eggplant-colored oxalis foliage. The polar opposite of dainty oxalis, crossvine (Bignonia capreolata ‘Tangerine Beauty’) flowers shout, “Look ...