Garden Journal

Garden Notebook

Our Cascading Roses

and

Our Secret Garden

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment.  My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.  The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. 

 ~Abram L. Urban

This past weekend my husband and I spent several hours cleaning the sidewalk flower in front of our house. A previous owner had planted these enchanting roses to cascade over the wall as well as Mexican Sage, Yellow Lantana and two Rosemary bushes.

Last fall I cut back the Rosemary Bushes, they must have liked it, they  bloomed earlier this spring for quite a long time.

We interplanted daffodils with the sage, which is growing quite nicely and surprisingly has a few blooms. Normally it blooms from September to frost.

I just adore these roses. They're petite, but plenteous! I had to cutback some of them from the sidewalk side so that they wouldn't grab anyone passing by. 

I love the pink and red together - to me they are quite striking. 

I took these photos Sunday afternoon, later we discovered that someone or something fell into the deeper rosebush twisting it and causing it to lean forward. We did some repair work and are waiting to see if there's much permanent damage - I think it is pretty resilient, but it may lose a few branches. 

From street level you cannot see the garden in our front yard. 

some of the Japanese Rooftop Iris are blooming as well as some more roses

A new little friend for my garden

This girl needs a new location - she's being covered up!

One of our neighbors who had come by while our house was on a tour
 and noted that she did not know we had flower garden in the front yard.

It is nice to be a house on a hill with a bit of privacy - our own

Secret Garden.
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Categories: Garden Notebook , paper roses , Secret Garden