August 6, 2007

• Garden flora

  There’s not much I love more than gardening, and so as a way of
  following up on my last post re: varmints, here is one showing some of
  my favourite plants in the garden. We go for the “riot of colour”
  effect around here! (Click for larger version of any pic.)

  

  Above is a lovely group of roses from our Felicité et Perpetué, which
  graces a chainlink fence and helps to give us extra privacy from our
  neighbours.

  

  Above is an arching rambler called New Dawn. It’s so lovely and the
  flowers have an incredible scent. I can’t recommend this one enough.
  What a pleasure!

  

  Stanwell Perpetual finished blooming a bit ago, but I wanted to include
  this photo to show how he outdid himself this year. That’s my husband
  rejoicing behind the bush, as well he might. Stanwell is a beautiful
  old-fashioned shrub rose, and I can’t get enough of the sweet scent of
  its flowers.

  

  Here’s a close-up of some of those delicate Stanwell blooms.

  Okay, enough of my roses for now. You may believe I have only
  white/pink varieties, but of the 17 roses on the property, quite a few
  are red/magenta, one is a lipstick colour warming to yellow in the
  centre, and I have a gorgeous yellow Graham Thomas too. Oh, and
  Minnehaha is a candy pink. So there’s lots of variety.

  

  This is an evening primrose that lives in our lily bed. Huge yellow
  blooms. It’s not my favourite since it’s such a low-lying plant, but I
  take good care of it anyway.

  

  Close-up of some Monkshood flowers in our front garden.

  

  I seldom plant annuals, but I had some gaps in the garden this year and decided to fill them with warm begonias like this one.

  

  Here is a lovely begonia with a kind of a fractal leaf — had to get it because it was so curious.

  

  A random lily, one of dozens. Our final oriental lily, a beautifully
  scented white one, is just opening now. My husband knows the name of
  it, but he’s off camping now so I can’t ask!

  I hope you enjoyed this little stroll around my tiny oasis of green.

  CG

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