Rio Samba rose in our garden.
Betsy and I woke up Wednesday morning to snow and 13° temperatures. As if that wasn’t bad enough I had to carry wood from the wood pile to the garage since we’ve been going through the wood so fast.
I’m happy to say that we both made it through the day, but I did get to thinking about Spring. Warm weather . . . green grass . . . flowers!
When we think of flowers Betsy and I most often think of roses. We’re both a little nuts when it comes to roses — we like them and are always looking for ways to fit just one more rose into our garden.
There are two main attributes of the roses we grow — fragrance and color. Sometimes we can get both attributes in a single rose such as Double Delight. At other times we have to settle for one attribute or the other.
Betsy tends to like red roses with large blossoms — Mister Lincoln and Veterans Honor are two of her favorites. I tend to have many different ‘favorites’ — on any given day my favorite is the rose with the buds that just opened.
The rose above is Rio Samba. It’s not very fragrant, but it does has some beautiful color. We added this rose to our garden in 2006, and I can hardly wait to see it again in 2009.
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