How was your Mother's Day? I hope you had as nice a day as I did. My family took me out to lunch at Applebees after church ...yum! Then we went to visit Ken's mom and took her a hanging flower basket with a gorgeous fushia. We went home for a couple of hours, I baked a crumb topped apple pie, which we took to my mom and dad's. She got a pretty flower basket too. We played four games of Euchre and ate too much pie. (Mom had made a strawberry pie too!)
I received a beautiful new rose for Mother's Day this year. It is a Cherish floribunda, which will bloom all summer. It isn't blooming yet, but here's what the flowers will look like.
I can't wait to see it in full bloom! Many years ago I received another beautiful rose bush, from my family, for Mother's Day. Here is a picture of it from my back deck. It is my favorite rose.
My daughter took these pictures of it and made a gorgeous framed collage for me a few years ago. I just love it!
I've always wanted more of them, but haven't seen them for sale around here anymore. I decided to try my hand a propogating a couple from mine, and found this idea on Pinterest.
For now I just tried two stems, cut from the same branch. If they don't succeed, I'll wait until fall to try again. I imagine I will have to protect them from our zone 4/5 winter as they aren't grafted onto a hardy root stock.
So what Pinteresting thing have you done lately?
I received a beautiful new rose for Mother's Day this year. It is a Cherish floribunda, which will bloom all summer. It isn't blooming yet, but here's what the flowers will look like.
I can't wait to see it in full bloom! Many years ago I received another beautiful rose bush, from my family, for Mother's Day. Here is a picture of it from my back deck. It is my favorite rose.
My daughter took these pictures of it and made a gorgeous framed collage for me a few years ago. I just love it!
I've always wanted more of them, but haven't seen them for sale around here anymore. I decided to try my hand a propogating a couple from mine, and found this idea on Pinterest.
For now I just tried two stems, cut from the same branch. If they don't succeed, I'll wait until fall to try again. I imagine I will have to protect them from our zone 4/5 winter as they aren't grafted onto a hardy root stock.
So what Pinteresting thing have you done lately?
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I hope this works, because I have a couple of roses that I would like to propagate.I looks so simple. I am going to give this a try. Thanks for sharing. I am your newest GFC.
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Your Mother's Day celebrations sound wonderful!! And your new rose is a stunner!! I have never heard of that propagation method...can't wait to see how it works out for you. :)
ReplyDeleteOkay, that is a very cool idea...I've been wanting to try "making my own roses" but it seems so tricky. I always have a potato lying around, so I'll give this a go. :)
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