Thanks so much, Laura! Our spring is just drawing to a close here, and summer will be much leaner in terms of flowers. It's always lovely to see summer blooms from places like yours!
Gosh , the first nothern hemisphere rose I have seen this year!! 🤣 Such a pretty one too, and defintely silky, as you suggest. The Duke works so well in your little vase with his demure subjects (although perhaps the pixie is rather more bolshie than he would like...) Thanks for sharing, Amy, and enjoy your spring!
The archduke has been quite precocious! ;-) This was actually the second bud, but a rabbit stood on tiptoe and ate the first one over the top of the wire cage... I clearly made it too short!
The pixie is certainly outlasting the archduke in the vase. Would you believe I've never had the nerve to cut bearded irises before this?
I really love your flowers, mine are just getting started here in Upstate New York. Thank you for sharing Arizona beauties!
Thanks so much, Laura! Our spring is just drawing to a close here, and summer will be much leaner in terms of flowers. It's always lovely to see summer blooms from places like yours!
They do go so well together Amy. And the rose is a beauty!
A perfect vase for beautiful blooms. And your photographs are wonderful. Hope all is well with you!
Roses and bearded Iris already, SIGH!
I'm so happy they've started well before the heat sets in!
How lovely to see the rose growing in the desert. I went to graduate school in AZ and know how inhospitable the desert can be, but also so beautiful.
Yes, the beauties and apparent contradictions are fantastic. I'm trying to select the roses most likely to do well in the climate... we shall see...!
Wonderful! Thanks for the beauty to start the day
Thanks so much, Lynda--you can imagine the thrill when I saw that rosebud beginning to open!
Gosh , the first nothern hemisphere rose I have seen this year!! 🤣 Such a pretty one too, and defintely silky, as you suggest. The Duke works so well in your little vase with his demure subjects (although perhaps the pixie is rather more bolshie than he would like...) Thanks for sharing, Amy, and enjoy your spring!
The archduke has been quite precocious! ;-) This was actually the second bud, but a rabbit stood on tiptoe and ate the first one over the top of the wire cage... I clearly made it too short!
The pixie is certainly outlasting the archduke in the vase. Would you believe I've never had the nerve to cut bearded irises before this?