Tis the last rose of "Autumn" Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone; No flower of her kindre...

Don't you agree? Any angle you view it from...            in bud or in bloom ... ...

Burning HOT blooms in my August gardens : Hot Papaya Echinacea A new favorite this year! Pink Profusion Zinnia Always ...

Voluptuous!     And doesn't this rose live up to its name? Jackson and Perkins 2005 Rose of the Year® winner. ...

Tis the last rose of Summer...    ~Thomas Moore The Little Rose that Could Truth be told,  it is the last rose of Autumn ...

In my gardens I can see more clearly... that there is beauty in every stage of life. Beauty in the Dying Rose That put...

A Rose For My Dear Mother... April 1928 ~ July 2011                   Mother loved her flower gardens...  4 o’clock’s and petunias...

Delicate ROSE petals form the shape of a HEART... on a rose growing in a corner of my gardens . In your Sweetest Dreams could you...

Rosa 'Don Juan' is the absolute favorite red rose of my gardens. "Love is like a rose.  When pressed between two lifeti...

I discovered this little rosebud growing in my garden on the first of November. "Crazy little rosebud" I thought out loud. "D...

      True beauty can only be seen                          when there is light from within... "Cultivate the light you have within ...

An Encore of Bright Summer Blooms... in November!    An early morning November walk through my gardens reveal that amidst the reds...