The standard rose that I was gifted on my fiftieth birthday has grown to an enormous size. I am not sure that standards are meant to get to this size. The beauty of this rose is that it flowers through to the first frosts usually in October or beginning of November.
My birthday standard rose
The rose and shrub almost hide the fence
Before we had new fence here, last year, we used to let this rose go wild as a screen between ourselves and the neighbours. Now that there is a good fence in place we have tamed this rose. I love the way the shrub has grown up to meet it and the fence has almost disappeared. I also love the two tones of pink together.
Lavender grows through the variegated lilies
Sometimes by happy accident plants will grow through each other quite happily. I love this lavender growing through the lilies.
We love to see the garden full so that there is no bare soil and little space for weeds to come through. It makes the garden not only look natural but keeps it low maintenance.
We are very pleased with how the garden is at the moment.
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What a lovely sight, you must feel very happy spending time in the garden, and with all this great weather.
I am loving being in the garden in the sun although I have to admit the last couple of days it has been too hot even for me and that doesn’t happen often! I have had to stay indoors or in the shade during the middle part of the day. The garden is at it’s most beautiful and the weather is amazing.