Rose of the Day - Edgar Degas

This one lives at No.28 in Ararat.
It's such a happy cheery rose.
And the petals really do look like the tutus in Degas' paintings.
See?

Rose of the Day - Ebb Tide

A new one!
It doesn't have a home yet.
Aunty Maria always gives us $50 when she sees us.
This is what I bought.
(I have enough left for another rose!)

Ebb Tide 

Photo: iphone - 23 November, 2013

Rose of the Day - Auguste Luise

After 7 months of utter and total neglect, I felt sure my fledgling rose garden at Pendlebury Hill, Ararat
would be dead as a door nail (or door nails, as the case may be) - but plants always surprise me with their tenacity.
The rose garden is absolutely glorious and this year I am particularly taken with this one.
Augusta Luise.
Innit purdy?
Hybrid tea bush rose.
Absolutely covered in blooms.
'Tis here if you would like one - Treloars.



Photo: iphone - 22 November, 2013, Pendlebury Hill, Ararat, Victoria, Australia


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New Town-New Garden: How Exciting!!

I'm here!
In my new garden!
Ready for new gardening adventures!
What fun!
Where to begin, where to begin??
Start small.
A pot at the front door.

Today's Loveliness

Parkinson's Passion
The Parkinson's Disease Association's Rose.

Photo: 21 Nov, 2011 
Pendlebury Hill, Ararat, Victoria, Australia

The Amazing Pinkie Rose

Spring
Love this time of year.
The Pinkie Rose covering the front of our house is in full bloom.
It's beautiful.
And pink.

photo: iphone - 11 Nov, 2012 
Ararat, Victoria, Australia

The First

Spring
The first bunch of roses from our garden this Spring 2012.
The fragrance is intoxicating.
Swoon-worthy.


photo: iphone 25th Oct, 2012 
Home, Ararat, Victoria, Australia

Utter and Total Neglect

 My first ever Lilac flowers - smell divine!

Spring - October 2012
I really do have the best and most clever garden.
I totally abandoned it 7 months ago and left it to its own devices.
7 months!
Not a drop of water other than from the sky, no seasol, no weeding, no pruning.
And do you know what - not one single plant died!
I know - 'mazing!

In fact, parts of it are positively flourishing.
So very, very clever.

Lisbon Lemons

Red Nasturtiums in the Dwarf Abelia Hedge 

Unknown Rose

Home, Ararat, Victoria, Australia
Photos: iphone 24 Oct, 2012

Thanks Garden - You're Ace!

From the garden today.
Some roses.
And some tomaties.
Thanks garden.

oh yeah!!
And our first ever nectarine (a white one).
No evidence, as we ate it.
It was PERFECT.
Thanks Uncle Tony and Uncle Pino for striking the tree for us.
(they both struck one for us and one carked it but we can't remember which was which!)


Home - 27 Jan, 2012

The Amazing Pinkie Rose

When we bought this house 3ish years ago in a Victorian country town, it was originally intended as an investment property.
It was a pretty daggy house but it was in a great position and was structurally sound.

We didn't have a lot of money for renovations, so anything we did to prettify the appearance from the street, had to be achieved via the garden.

Anyway...the house had these weird brick pillars holding up the little front verandah.
They were very u-u-u-ugly.
Our options were to replace them, paint them (which always looks like a lame attempt to beautify) or hide them.



At our house in the city, I had a lot of success with a Climbing Gold Bunny.
When it was in full flower, it used to stop people in the street and they would take photos. It was extra special coz my Grandma gave me $20 when we first bought our city house to buy a rose for the garden.
I loved my Grandma.
And she loved roses.


So I thought some climbing roses on the pillars might work - to hide and distract.
But there was concrete on the ground along the front of the verandah.
I didn't know if it would work, but I got Dad and Vince to cut 2 square holes in the concrete in which I could plonk a couple of roses.


And guess what!
The Pinkie Roses love it!
Their roots stay nice and cool and just moist and the leaves bake against the bricks.
Absolutely ideal.
It never fails to amaze my Mum - "I can't believe it grows out of that little hole in the cement!"
They are a real show-stopper.
And the great thing about that is, when people walk by and you are in the garden, they will comment on it and that is such a great way to strike up a conversation and get to know your neighbours.
Especially the older ones, who always have good stories.


Oh yeah - and we loved our little investment property and the little country Victorian town so much - we packed up our city lives and moved into it.
Best decision - EVER!


Photos:
1,2,4&5: Nov, 2010
3. Oct, 2007

Casualty No. 2

Earlier this year my beautiful pink flowering gum, snapped off at the base.
I was very sad.



And last night it happened again!
This gorgeous rose - Double Delight - that my mother-in-law kindly struck for me, snapped.
B#st##d!
It wasn't even that windy.

That's it!
Every plant in the garden will be staked within an inch of its life!

(and I'll take a cutting from the rose to see if I can grow a new one).


Photos:
Jan, 2010
Feb, 2010
Feb, 2011

Summer 2009/2010::Roses

Abracadabra

I am a lover of roses.
You just can't beat them.
You just plonk a stick in the ground,
give 'em a bit of water every now and again
and out they come - in glorious technicolour.
Mine don't even really get a fertilize.
A splash of Seasol if they are lucky.

                                                                                                          brass band

I ordered 10 new ones from Treloars in winter.

This one is a standard called Brass Band - I think it is my favourite.

And don't let anyone tell you, you can't transplant roses in the middle of summer.
This one, name unknown, an original rose at our Ararat house, I moved in January 2008.
It's coming along beautifully.

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