Red Dirt Roses

My last post on St. Swithun received a few comments about how big it was in just its second season.  That got me thinking that I should upd...

My favorite rose is St. Swithun, an English Rose introduced in 1993.  Its flowers are of the lightest pink, larger than most English Roses,...

In June of last year we said goodbye to Sherman Pruett.  Sherman grew up in Prague, Oklahoma and was one of the full Czech members of the c...

I decided it was unfair of me to post my picture of one bloom on my tiny plant of DayDream and you to have that as your primary impression o...

I love very double roses such as St. Swithun but I do enjoy the occasional single rose.  When this  enjoyment of a single rose is combined w...

Last year when weeding my blackberry bed, I decided to let a couple of fast growing seedlings grow.  They turned out to be Sunflowers probab...

This morning I was drawn in by the contrast of a Beauty and a Beast not far from each other in the garden.  Let's start with the beast o...