Back Yard Photos & Plants : 2003 |
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I was hard at work trying to keep up with the weeding and mowing and spraying, but we were also still buying new Roses on the weekends. During the week, in addition to yard work, I was hard at work looking for a job. Oftentimes phone calls and emails and the occasional interview would take up the cool morning hours and I would end up trying to get something done in the heat of the afternoon. Not the best way to get a lot accomplished, I can tell you! For the most part June was mild, though, so it wasn't too hard. Here my roommate is watering the three newly planted Evelyn, a David Austin English Rose. A lot of people we've talked to think all English Roses are too much work and look too much alike to be worth the effort. Au contraire! Not only can they be quite distinctive, but many if not most of them have such a strong perfume that we find them well worth the extra work involved. The potted Roses on the patio started really blooming during June (they had such a nice head start from spending the Spring in the cold frame). Front to back this is Amber Queen, (a Floribunda Rose, Scepter'd Isle, and just budding out in the background, Falstaff, (both David Austin English Roses). |
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By the end of the first week in June we had finished digging out the new Rose bed along the fence. This is on the east side of the yard, so it gets a lot of sun for most of the day except in the morning. We had planted the Climbing New Dawn, Pearl Essence and Geoff Hamilton last year and they all survived the winter. By the time we finished planting this bed we had added 12 more Rose bushes! Eventually, I'm going to add the brick edging to this bed, too.
