A Weekend at Home

These wonderful roses came from our yard!  The Hubs and I are thrilled.  Thrilled, I tell you! Aren't they lovely? The Hubs and I picked out some really great bright colorful roses to be planted in our rose garden. On another day I'll share a pic of the actual rose garden.  --For now, think "White House" Rose Garden.

When we purchased our home there was an existing rose garden. It brought us great joy.  The flowers to the right were from the rose garden when we moved in. The hydrangeas are also from our yard {just not the rose garden}.  The first summer we lived here I went out to the rose garden either in the mornings or right after work. I felt like a competent little gardener with my rose cutting scissors. I took this very seriously.

When we engaged the local rose garden service they indicated that the existing rose plants needed to be replaced {due to age?} So Hubs and I set out replanting the rose garden.  And when I say replanting, I mean we had the rose service plant new plants.

Last summer was the first summer of the Montgomery Roses. Basically, they looked like sticks growing out of the ground.  No blooms. Then when a bloom just about peaked, the next day it was gone.  Why were the rose flowers disappearing? Answer: Deer!  At night the deer came and ate and left us with sticks growing out of the ground. 

Earlier this week a rose bloomed.  Then the next day there were four! Yesterday we went out to cut our flowers.  That way if deer came in the night, we would have already gotten the lovelies. We even had enough blooms that we were able to take a few to my Dad and Mamacita's. 

So, today I'm enjoying my lovely flowers!  

 FLOWERS.  COLOR!  I LIKE FLOWERS AND COLOR.