LOVE IS IN THE AIR

My Guirlande D’amour rose is in bloom and my whole garden smells of roses at the moment. Guirlande D’amour is a rambler rose, half double, snow white and has a lovely delicate smell. I have this rose in my garden for about 20 years now and she is beautifull when in bloom. I give it a cut in Autumn, just the longest branches and then in Spring it gets a good cut and a bit of dried cow manure, thats it. It keeps blooming till the frosts come, not as much as it blooms in June though.

MY GUIRLANDE D’AMOUR 2 WEEKS AGO

MY GUIRLANDE D’AMOUR TODAY

GUIRLANDE D’AMOUR TODAY, RESTING ON A WOODEN BOW

You can’t see anything of the wooden bow as it is completely covered by the rose. This rose is also the favorite place for birds to make their nest in and for the bees of course, they just love it. And so do I.

Have a great day and thanks for your visit.

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IT LOOKS PROMISING

The roses in my garden have hundreds of buds that will soon open up and change my garden in a lovely smelling place. I can hardly wait !!

ROSA GUIRLANDE D’AMOUR

ROSA SEAGULL

ROSA FRANCIS E. LESTER

Have a great weekend !!

LADY IN WHITE

At the moment my climbing rose GUIRLANDE D’AMOUR looks like a lady in a weddingdress who wears a lovely perfume. My whole garden smells of her !

THIS IS HOW SHE LOOKED  LIKE ABOUT LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AGO

SHE STARTED SLOW, ONLY A FLOWER HERE AND THERE

A FEW DAYS LATER SHE LOOKED LIKE THIS

AND HERE SHE IS IN FULL BLOOM LOOKING LIKE A  REAL BRIDE

HERE YOU GET A CLOSER LOOK AT HER BLOOMS

Have a great weekend all and enjoy your garden if you can, it will make you completely zen. Thanks for visiting !

 

 

MORE ROSES IN MY GARDEN

Every day more roses open in my garden and at the moment my whole garden smells of roses.

I DON’T KNOW THE NAME OF THIS ROSE BUT I LOVE THE COLOUR.

ROSA CONSTANCE SPRY

ROSA THE PILGRIM

RAMBLER ROSE SEAGULL (this is a rose that selfseeds)

RAMBLER ROSE SEAGULL (this on selfseeded in the middle of a skimmia japonica)

THIS  PICTURE OF ROSA GUIRLANDE D’AMOUR  WAS TAKEN ONLY A FEW DAYS AGO

THIS IS THE SAME ROSE TODAY

I hope you’ll all have a wonderful week ! Thanks for visiting !

THE SMELL OF ROSES

I haven’t been blogging for a while but I just needed a break. There is so much to do at the moment that I just don’t know what to do first. I think you all know what I mean.

But the roses are starting to bloom so I had to take some pictures for you to see, pitty you can’t smell them !!

ROSA CONSTANCE SPRY ( soft pink climbing rose with horrible thorns !!)

ROSA THE PILGRIM (low  yellow climbing rose)

 

AND LOOK AT ALL THESE BUDS !!!!(climbing rose GUIRLANDE D’AMOUR, half dubble white)

I have more roses in bud so by next week I’m sure they’ll be open, we are having hot and very dry weather, last night we had a thunderstorm with a bit of very welcome rain.

Have a great week and thanks for visiting !

TODAY IN MY GARDEN

We have a few nice days at the moment so I thought it was ideal to take a few pictures. It is definitely Autumn but there is still some beauty left.

YELLOW POMPON DAHLIA, YELLOW ALWAYS BRINGS A BIT OF SUN IN THE GARDEN EVEN ON A RAINY DAY

VERBENA BONARIENSIS IS GOING ON AND ON AND SELFSEEDS ALL OVER THE GARDEN

BEGONIA AND BUZZY LIZZY STILL LOOK GOOD AT MY FRONT DOOR

THERE ARE STILL A FEW GERANIUM FLOWERS LEFT

PROBABLY THE LAST FLOWER OF THE PILGRIM ROSE

FUCHSIA

THIS RUSSIAN VINE IS RACING THROUGH MY GARDEN

ROSA GUIRLANDE D’AMOUR STILL BUDDING AND FLOWERING AND SMELLING OF ROSES

AND THE GARDEN POND URGENTLY NEEDS A GOOD CLEAN AS THE PLANTS HAVE TAKEN OVER AND THE FISH NEED A BIT OF SPACE TO SWIM

I hope you enjoyed this little trip through my Autumn garden, I did !

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you can still enjoy your garden !

IN MY GARDEN TODAY

We have an early Autumn this year, the sun is still shining and the temperatures are still ok but you can see the plants are tired and want to go to sleep. But I still have some colour in the garden too. Here are todays pictures.

ASTER

SEDUM HERBSTFREUDE

STILL LOTS OF BUDS ON THE GUIRLANDE D’AMOUR

FUCHSIA

 

BEGONIA

FALSE STRAWBERRY (potentilla indica)

MY ALCHEMILLA IS TIRED AND WANT TO GO TO SLEEP AS YOU CAN SEE….

Thanks for visiting ! Have great day !

 

GARDEN PICTURES

CANNA

PASSIFLORA CAERULEA

ROSA GUIRLANDE D’AMOUR

CLEMATIS HAGLEY HYBRID

KOI

KOI

ROSA SEAGULL

AEONIUM

Have a great weekend all and enjoy your garden !!!!

 

PICTURES OF MY GARDEN

We are having a heathwave ! We go from cold to hot in one day, we can’t cope with it nor can the plants. And it has been extremely dry for a while, we live on sandy gound that dries out very quickly.But never the less, I enjoy it, everything grows and grows, with a little help of the waterhose ofcourse. We can eat outside morning, noon and evening with a nice view on the whole garden. What more do you want ??!

 

THIS IS SPIREA VAN HOUTTE

THE FERNS ARE DOING REALLY WELL

THE FIRST OF THE FUCHSIAS IN BLOOM

MR OR MRS PIDGEON LOOKING OVER OUR GARDEN

MILLIONBELLS, I JUST COULDN’T RESIST THIS COLOUR….

ROSA GUIRLANDE D’AMOUR, A RAMBLER WITH A VERY NICE PERFUME

LAST BUT NOT LEAST , MY GERANIUM ROZANNE, BLOOMS FOR A VERY VERY LONG TIME

I hope you all have a wonderfull weekend and thanks for stopping by.