Monday, May 3, 2010

Smelling the Roses

We have the first rose buds on our bushes and several open roses, with glorious smells.



orange rose tree, but I don't recall the name






The majority of our roses come from David Austin, but Mr. Lincoln and the orange rose tree came from Home Depot. Will spent a lot of time cutting them back late with winter, and now they are back, stronger and prettier than ever.

We do have some avids on the Golden Celebration bush, but we sprayed the soap stuff and killed them all off. Fingers crossed that we don't have to do that too much.

The four other rose bushes we have are growing well, but no buds yet. I'll keep you posted!

2 comments:

Will said...

They smell heavenly. Come on over for a sniff - really, it's worth it.

Grandmother said...

The orange and yellow one looks a like one called Tropical Sunset. My wasn't a tree rose but it was quite prolific year ater year. Sadly it didn't make through this past winter.