OK, time to get back on this blog!
The first photois the Sir Thomas Lipton roses by the
back porch. Barbara gave the two of them to me about 5 years ago, and they are
glorious when they bloom! They smell so sweet, which makes them perfect for the back porch. They bloom just about the time the pollen has finished, and we've moved outside for the rest of the year. I wish you could see/smell them in person. Last fall, I cautiously pruned a couple of the biggest canes out of each one, trying to bring the blooms closer to the ground. Now I know what to do with them this fall: prune them with a little greater abandon!
This is the view facing north, at the north
side of the Lush Lawn. The veggie garden is
behind the fence, the distraction is the white
ox-eye daisies. I bought a $10 packet of NC
wildflower seeds the summer before we moved
into this house and sowed them over the septic
drain field. Who would have guessed that EVERY
seed would germinate?!? I've been giving away
ox-eye daisies ever since. They are truly
happy in mid April, and the house appears
to be floating on a white cloud each spring when
they are blooming. The white blooms overlap
the yellow blooms of the tickseed by two
weeks, and the tickseed continue to bloom
the rest of the summer.
The white roseclimbing over the garden gate is a Sombrueil, an antique that is also sweet smelling.
Ah, this pretty purple beauty is blooming on the blue tuteur in the above picture. Mama gave me this clematis in 2006. It blooms earlier than some other clematis, and is very nice with the white daisies.
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