Stop and smell the roses

Most of our roses are blooming at Blue Moon Gardens. The most beautiful are the Double Red Knock Out roses out in front. These are only 2 years old but they have done very well. Here you can see them behind Kaleidoscope Abelia, which has also thrived in this very sunny spot.

At the other end of this bed is a Ballerina antique rose. It has been planted for a number of years. Up until two years ago when the electric company cut down every tree along this fence line, this poor rose grew in the shade a received little water. It hung in there, blooming only in the spring. Now that it gets full sun and regular irrigation, it is covered in clusters of pale pink flowers for months. Unfortunately, we have not been able to find this rose to sell this year, so we are taking our our cuttings.

Ballerina rose just starting to bloom