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Garden Glimpses

September 29, 2008 |

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Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes,
it is a triumph of hope over experience.
- Marina Schinz

The In Season series is a web diary of the gardening successes and mishaps of two eternally hopeful novices. The ladybug above will lead you to previous posts in the series.

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:

More Roses

Crocuses

Lavender

Iris: Tennessee Gentleman

Chokecherry Tree

More lilies

Snug as a bug

Freddie the frog. He/she lives between the pipe and the wall next to our patio.

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45 Comments so far

  1. Kashmira on September 29, 2008 12:03 pm

    Wow! Such a lovely garden! And is that really a frog???
    Love the climbing roses.

  2. sunita on September 29, 2008 12:09 pm

    What a beautiful garden you have…love the climbing rose :-)

  3. Hima on September 29, 2008 12:59 pm

    Really eye pleasing photos .I see the hard work of yours that had bloomed into flowers.

  4. Priya on September 29, 2008 1:05 pm

    eeeew, just so we don’t say ‘aaw, beautiful garden’ you had to show us the frog!! aah!

  5. Vidya on September 29, 2008 1:07 pm

    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”

  6. Pooh on September 29, 2008 1:25 pm

    *sigh* I envy you.

  7. Mamatha on September 29, 2008 1:34 pm

    That was such a treat to the senses. I hope we get to see more such tours.

  8. Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) on September 29, 2008 1:43 pm

    I’m green with envy — your garden is so lush! Thanks for sharing glimpses.

  9. Bharti on September 29, 2008 2:16 pm

    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.

  10. Uma on September 29, 2008 2:19 pm

    Wow, wow, wow! What a beautiful garden you have! Very well maintained. I like the climbing rose. :)

  11. Divya on September 29, 2008 2:26 pm

    Everything looks so pretty in your garden!

  12. Rashmi on September 29, 2008 3:34 pm

    Beautiful garden..it must be refreshing to see such beautiful flowers every morning with a cup of tea…thanks for sharing it with us…

  13. OhioMom on September 29, 2008 4:05 pm

    Love your garden pics .. LOL at “‘Schizophrenia‘

  14. rajesh on September 29, 2008 4:16 pm

    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.

  15. Shibani on September 29, 2008 5:40 pm

    Oh dear such breathtaking pictures of ur garden.U have maintaned it so well.

  16. Manggy on September 29, 2008 6:50 pm

    That garden is HUGE! Thanks for the tour!

    Freddie is freaking me out a bit :P 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)

  17. Anjali on September 29, 2008 8:22 pm

    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 :).

  18. Nirmala on September 29, 2008 8:37 pm

    Thats simply an excellent garden. The climbing roses on the column is simply wonderful. Good work guys! The frog actually scares me :(

  19. Kalyn on September 29, 2008 9:24 pm

    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.

  20. sushma on September 29, 2008 9:38 pm

    I envy for havng such a wnderful garden. i always wanted to have a garden wth full of flowers. :)

  21. Happy Cook on September 29, 2008 11:51 pm

    Cute Freddy.
    You guys have such a beautiful garden. I am really jealous.

  22. lavi on September 30, 2008 1:01 am

    Beautifull Glimpse..

  23. Raja Muthu Kumar, Chennai on September 30, 2008 2:37 am

    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!!!

  24. Anonymous on September 30, 2008 3:11 am

    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.:)

  25. trupti on September 30, 2008 4:09 am

    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.

  26. arundati on September 30, 2008 5:29 am

    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!!

  27. Alexa on September 30, 2008 7:13 am

    I enjoyed this tour of your beautiful garden. Freddie is a lucky frog to live in such beauty!

  28. Mishmash! on September 30, 2008 7:59 am

    IS that the entrance of your home….it looks so well paved and pretty….:)

    yes, it is. thank you.

  29. Soma on September 30, 2008 8:06 am

    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…

  30. Cham on September 30, 2008 8:26 am

    Even the frog seems loving ur blooming scented garden. But the slimy creature made me quit the browser yest for a while Bee :(

  31. Srivalli on September 30, 2008 9:12 am

    such a beautiful garden!

  32. Alka on September 30, 2008 10:27 am

    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!

  33. cooldeep on September 30, 2008 11:47 am

    Wow such a wonderful garden!!!

  34. Latha on September 30, 2008 11:52 am

    nice, Freddie looks snug;-)

  35. Vaishali on September 30, 2008 2:30 pm

    What a beautifully maintained garden, and such gorgeous flowers! I am in awe.

  36. Manasi on September 30, 2008 3:30 pm

    U guys have the greenest thumbs EVER! u live in a desert? NO WAY!!!

    Aaah! - for the garden
    ewww, ewwww, ewwwwwww- for Freddie

  37. Andrea on September 30, 2008 4:57 pm

    Your garden is lovely. You must feel so peaceful when you are out in it.

  38. Rachna on September 30, 2008 5:58 pm

    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

  39. Laavanya on October 1, 2008 4:04 am

    Such a beautiful garden and the rose bush with an identity crisis is just so funny.

  40. RP on October 1, 2008 11:18 am

    Nice pictures!! and what a treat at the end! You should have warned me not to look at the last one. eww..eww…

  41. Madhuram on October 1, 2008 5:33 pm

    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.)

  42. Rachna on October 1, 2008 6:56 pm

    oh really? nice b :)

  43. Jen Yu on October 1, 2008 7:43 pm

    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…

  44. Paz on October 3, 2008 6:30 pm

    I love your garden!

    Paz

  45. Saee Koranne-Khandekar on October 31, 2008 12:48 am

    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.

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