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The romantic rose

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This lovely rose is Yves Piaget a Romantica Rose. When this rose first blooms it has the classic hybrid tea look, but as the rose ages it petals open up as above. Doesn’t it have a floppy free spirited kind of look?

This rose blooms several times throughout the growing season, but it doesn’t bloom as much as I’d like. I’d love it to be full of flowers most of the time as they have a lovely scent.

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Double Delight just Delightful

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I had to replace a few of my roses last year as I lost some due to the mild winter that we had … This winter has lots of snow cover so far so I’m hoping that all my roses and other plants make it this time round.

This rose, Double Delight, is one of the replacement roses that I purchased. I bought it to replace Fragrant cloud. Isn’t it a lovely rose? I love the multiple shades of pink and white within each flower.

Double Delight is a very popular hybrid rose. I can now see why! It has a light scent and the blooms seem to last for days. I think I’m going to enjoy this rose.

I’d rather look at roses than endure this cold wind!

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Beautiful Graham Thomas English Rose.

Winter hit Toronto early this year and we’ve had snow cover for most of the last month! Thinking back to last winter, I think we’d only had one snow by this date and it melted shortly after it fell. I guess it’s about time we had a real winter around here.

Yesterday it did warm up a bit, but it rained and rained and rained some more. Then in the late afternoon strong winds arrived bringing with it very chilly weather. Right now it’s only a little below freezing, but thanks to the wind it feels extremely cold outside.

I’d much rather remember how lovely this rose looked in October when I took this photo when I have to take the puppy outside in the cold!

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Lovely geranium

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This is a Johnson’s Blue Geranium. It’s a perennial plant that’s hardy to zone 5, possibly as low as zone 4, but don’t quote me on that!

This cute little plant blooms at least three times each season. It’s flowers are a bluish purple and appear iridescent when the sunlight hits them. They are small flowers of only about an inch in diameter. The first bloom of each season usually occurs in June and the plant is often covered in blooms. Other blooming sessions later in the season do not produce quite as many flowers, but still there’s enough to enjoy!

Lovely Moulinex Rose

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Oh man it’s nice to take a look at this glimpse of better times today!

We’ve had a major winter storm with what they say was about 40 cm (16 inches) of snow, but walking the pup and looking at the driveways that haven’t been shoveled next to sidewalks that have I’d say that Saturday and today’s snow storms brought us 2 feet of snow!

I took this photo of one of my Moulinex roses on the first of October. My roses continued to bloom until at least Mid November when it really started to cool down here in Toronto.

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