Autumn flowers

Thank Goodness Summer Is Over! Days ares still quite warm but not unbearably hot. The Roses are slowly recovering from the horrible summer.


Pat Austin: I can't believe how fast this rosebush grows and blooms! This cultivar is truly exceptional!

Charlotte

Tourmaline

Rina Hugo

Julia's Rose

Unidentified orange rose

Peace/Gloria Dei

Unidentified climber

Unidentified yellow roses

This one is a climber

Jubilee du Prince de Monaco

Eminence

Winchester Cathedral

Unidentified pink rose, the oldest rose in my garden.

There still some water lilies blooming, but most of them are getting ready to sleep: they love extreme heat and as soon as days begin to get cool they retreat and grow their underwater winter foliage.

I don't know the name of this plant. it's nice but very invasive

Mirabilis Jalapa

A pretty fuchsia bloom

The last hydrangea bloom till spring

Hibiscus 

See you next time!

Love at first sight!

 Yesterday I was seeing the David Austin utterly tantalizing catalog online and discovered his "Wedding roses" ¿has anyone seen these superb beauties? I was enraptured!

Photo from: www.parfumflowercompany.com

They look so voluptuous, rounded and much more double than any Rose I've ever seen... they make my roses look like trash now.. oh God why can't I be happy with Peace, Iceberg or Papa Meilland ? Why do I have this stubborn drive to grow the ungrowable and try the untryable?why? why? why? I think the title of this post should be "Musings of a Rose maniac" :)

Happy Easter everyone!

Goodbye summer and don't come back!

While days are still hot the nights are considerably cooler and cold southern winds are blowing more often. This is enough to get roses back to life. Let's see some of the brave survivors.


Grand Gala,  the favorite rose of my beloved departed mother.

"Empress Farah", a rose of irresitible beauty, with cold the orange color of the tips becomes more intense, almost red.

Julia's rose, she was almost dead one month ago, I was about to dig her out! now she is full of buds.

Peace/Gloria Dei, visited by a bee

An unidentified white rose

White Christmas, there were two of this variety but only this one survived summer

Parure D'Or, one of the best roses of my garden: she is not as double as others but never gets sick, doesn't mind heat at all and smells wonderful.

Tourmaline, slowly coming back to life.

Unidentified climbing rose

Enjoy spring if you are in the northern hemisphere and embrace the fall if you are in the south!

See you next time!

Wordless post: March afternoom

Pinch me! I must be dreaming!

Is that a David Austin rose? here? in my garden?

Yes, it is! Please excuse my effusiveness but this is like a dream come true! I thought I would never see these roses in person, let alone having them in my garden! I feel overflowed with joy! Recently I was visiting this very nice BLOG which belongs to Clara Billoch who is a very skilled argentine gardener and I saw that there are english roses in her beautiful garden in Buenos Aires, I asked her where I could find those roses because I had never seen them here before. She kindly replied and I - defying the heat - rushed to the nursery!

There were not many because the hot season is too advanced  and almost all were prunned , the nursery employee told me these rare (rare here!) english roses come from plantations in Rio Negro - a southern province with cold snowy winters and short mild summers- to know this gave me a sinking feeling because whenever I bought plants from the south in the past they never thrived here (peonies mostly) but as those who read this blog regularly know I am serious case of zonal denial and stubbornly defy the climate all the time, so I bough two rosebushes to start the "experiment". They are "Pat Austin" (in the pictures here) and "Charlotte" (this one was prunned.)

Will they survive? or look at least half as good as those in glossy english books? Time will tell! but righ now I am very happy with Pat and Charlotte!

See you next time!