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Garden Glimpses
September 29, 2008 | 46 Comments
A little tour of our garden.
Pink Salvia
Purple Salvia
Red Daylilies
Blue Candleflowers
Weigela
Clematis
Asiatic Lily
Burgundy Iris
Hosta
Chaste
Mini Arborvitae
Rose (Peace)
Pink Climbing Rose
The one with the identity crisis
Three years back we bought this ‘Elle’ hybrid tea rose bush. It had erect branches with spectacular pink blooms so fragrant, you could smell them from several feet away. The next year, it gave long branches that started crawling over the ground, much like a climbing rose. This year, one set of branches has the original large, pink blooms. The new set of branches has small burgundy blooms with hardly any aroma and a petal structure quite different from the original ones. Like most climbing roses, the new growth blooms mainly in cooler weather (spring and fall), while the ‘Elle’ thrives in summer. It’s like having two separate rose bushes in one. We’ve renamed it ‘Schizophrenia‘.
Previously featured:
Snug as a bug
Freddie the frog. He/she lives between the pipe and the wall next to our patio.
Filed Under: asiatic-lilies, candleflower, chaste, clematis, daylilies, daylily, flowers, frog, GARDENING, hosta, iris, Photo Essays, rose, salvia, weigela
46 Comments
Wow! Such a lovely garden! And is that really a frog???
Love the climbing roses.
What a beautiful garden you have…love the climbing rose
Really eye pleasing photos .I see the hard work of yours that had bloomed into flowers.
eeeew, just so we don’t say ‘aaw, beautiful garden’ you had to show us the frog!! aah!
I have the same problem with one of my Hybrid tea roses. A beautiful orange blossom in the main bush with several thin branches producing the burgandy blooms. I was going crazy wondering what I did
Now I know, its the bush which is “Schizophrenic”
*sigh* I envy you.
That was such a treat to the senses. I hope we get to see more such tours.
I’m green with envy — your garden is so lush! Thanks for sharing glimpses.
Beauuutiful! Thanks for sharing.
And my kidz are gonna get a kick out of Freddie,, I’ll show it to them later.
btw, gotta ask. how do you keep the weeds out? The lawn in the background looks beautifully kept. Any secret organic methods of keeping it so nice and green?
our weeds are fashion-conscious. they blend in with the grass.
Wow, wow, wow! What a beautiful garden you have! Very well maintained. I like the climbing rose.
Everything looks so pretty in your garden!
Beautiful garden..it must be refreshing to see such beautiful flowers every morning with a cup of tea…thanks for sharing it with us…
Love your garden pics .. LOL at “‘Schizophrenia‘
Lovely,
Gosh that garden must take a whole lot of your time. I struggle with the few survivors that are sticking it out in our yard. Next summer definetly, I tell myself. Our lavender started blooming, and I am hoping that they will get visited by the humming birds, and I am around at that time.
Oh dear such breathtaking pictures of ur garden.U have maintaned it so well.
That garden is HUGE! Thanks for the tour!
Freddie is freaking me out a bit
How’d he get wedged in such a tight space? (To be fair, I’ve only seen one true frog and it was a tiny tree frog– all the rest I’ve seen are toads and I can’t imagine them going vertical)
With that kinda of a place I wonder if you are a young couple struggling to meet end OR a retired one enjoying the fruits of a hard earned living
;)! WOW ! you guys are lucky to have a garden like that and shows how much you care for it. Enjoy it and a pat on the back for the gardener and I know it is not Bee 
.
Thats simply an excellent garden. The climbing roses on the column is simply wonderful. Good work guys! The frog actually scares me
I ripped out my roses to plant lower water flowers, but I used to have a rose with red and yellow flowers on it. Very strange, and no idea how it happened. Your flower photos are amazing.
I envy for havng such a wnderful garden. i always wanted to have a garden wth full of flowers.
Cute Freddy.
You guys have such a beautiful garden. I am really jealous.
Beautifull Glimpse..
Wow, the comments you have received are as fresh and beautiful like those cuties in your garden. Now have you some how Taken off Ooty to your front space!!!
I can see your beautiful garden has been inspiring you. Much as I know it’s importance in the scheme of things, I’m not envying you little Freddie.:)
I love the Colors in your garden,and that climbing rose is just a gorgeous shade of pink. Cute Frog too.
all i had in my new garden this year were hostas,blue eyed fuschias and a couple tiger lilies…more next summer!
Hope you both had a nice summer.Cheers.
what a splash of colours….am sure it is a joy to be in the garden……..but i have to agree….freddie freaked me out!! ewwww!!
I enjoyed this tour of your beautiful garden. Freddie is a lucky frog to live in such beauty!
IS that the entrance of your home….it looks so well paved and pretty….:)
yes, it is. thank you.
Thats a eeeewwwww little frog:-( I hate slimy things.
But I am purple with envy to see what a great place u guys have built yourself.
All the cute little rabbit famiies in my yard upset me so bad… they devour EVERYTHING other than biiter gourd, roses (thank god for the thorns!) and hydrangeas. Even the bulbs are scooped out.
I love your “schizophrenia!” One of my hydrangea is schizophrenic… pink, blue, purple and white…
Even the frog seems loving ur blooming scented garden. But the slimy creature made me quit the browser yest for a while Bee
such a beautiful garden!
Wooh…this is a height of indulgence in gardening….If at this age u guys are living in this calm and green surroundings,i wonder wht will be ur plans after retirement?
Who needs to venture out in crazy world if u have a lawn like this ?Lovely clicks….as usual…Breathtakingly beautiful flowers!
Wow such a wonderful garden!!!
nice, Freddie looks snug;-)
What a beautifully maintained garden, and such gorgeous flowers! I am in awe.
U guys have the greenest thumbs EVER! u live in a desert? NO WAY!!!
Aaah! – for the garden
ewww, ewwww, ewwwwwww- for Freddie
Your garden is lovely. You must feel so peaceful when you are out in it.
I am not envious…. this garden just shows hardwork and sweat (mostly Jai’s I presume) which is what i want to admire! lovely garden you have guys
well, i would say more b’s work…for the flowers etc. i spend more time with the veggie patch
-j
Such a beautiful garden and the rose bush with an identity crisis is just so funny.
Nice pictures!! and what a treat at the end! You should have warned me not to look at the last one. eww..eww…
I’m flabbergasted by your horticultural skills.
(Bee, I really tried hard to write something new after reading your Baffle them with Bull. I’m only capable of the above.)
oh really? nice b
Oooh, thank you for this stunning garden tour! I love it. I like your pet frog (toad?) too. Just don’t go licking him or anything… I wonder how much time you guys spend gardening. I sheepishly admit that although I very much want a garden, we chose our mountain home partly because it’s the norm to have weeds everywhere (that’s our “natural” landscaping). har har. Oh, I’m a bum…
I love your garden!
Paz
What I would give for a garden like that! And what I would give to have that frog taken away!
Really pretty place to be, though.
Your site is beautiful and inspiring and I will visit it often.
My husband and I are professional gardeners and we admire the lovely photos of your garden plants. I don’t know where you are or what climate zone you are in (we’re in CT, zone 6) but what has happened to your rose bush is not schizophrenia but genetics. Most cultivated roses are grafted onto a hardy rootstock. Usually this stock is selected for hardiness and will not bear flowers that have the qualities that you may desire. If by mistake you plant the rosebush slightly deeper into the ground that it was in the pot when you purchased it, the rootstock will begin take over. The red roses that you are seeing are the original rootstock. These will eventually completely take over. You can either dig up the bush, prune away all of the red blossomed stock and replant it a bit higher. Or you can start over with a new bush and plant it more shallowly. If you do that keep an eye on it and clip any shoots that may be coming from below ground level.
Good luck. Love your site.