LOVERLY.....

Hot Cocoa rose

"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet..." -Katherine Lee Bates

After the Heat dome of last year, half of the roses kicked the bucket. I must have lost about 16 roses. They turned into fried sticks. And then these ones came back to life...............

                  Oh, and the Cat Plant thrives as usual. ............

           "A single rose can be my garden..." - Leo Buscaglia

Not just the roses survived. Cosmos  reseeded itself and has come back to haunt me. 

And the Campanula  takesiana  braves the wind, against all odds, from last year. 

"All June I bound the rose in sheaves.. " -Robert Browning

And not to be outdone by it's fancy  dancy counterparts, the sweet peas are almost ready .

Last year they met their doom and shriveled up  under the sun and died like straw. this year, they beg for rain water out of their handsome pots.

Last year this wild rose found its way, against all odds, into the garden and  now grows up into one of the apple trees, almost six feet high. It's happy and grows with abandon, despite everything else.

"We have chased away the clouds...the sky is all rose...." -Francis Hollande

And fire roses scream out of their bucket............they are very noisy this year.

                        "One rose says more than a dozen..." -Wendy Craig

"We are all dreaming of a magical rose garden...." 

                                                            -Dale Carnegie

"And so it goes. They know what they're doing. No matter what. they bloom and we wait for that amazing rose scent. You know the one. Where you walk by and  something loverly wafts its way into your mind and you remember  ...." -R. Raphe

And there's that Cat Plant. He blooms by  laying down on the job......

 Photographs 2022