This is a picture of 'Bewitched'. I took the picture when the sun is
out, so its color is washed out. Bewitched's bloom does not fade to
white as some other pink roses. Unfortunately this particular plant
is not vigorous in my garden.
My backyard garden is now on-line. I plant mostly roses in my garden. I have about twenty roses right now. I will plant some more next year.
You can click on the thumb-nail pictures to obtain the magnified versions.
This is a picture of 'Bewitched'. I took the picture when the sun is
out, so its color is washed out. Bewitched's bloom does not fade to
white as some other pink roses. Unfortunately this particular plant
is not vigorous in my garden.
'Queen Elizabeth' starts out as medium pink, then gradually fades to white.
Queen Elizabeth grows tall. Beside the fading problem, it is a good plant.
These are two pictures of 'Champaign Cocktail'. This is a floribunda with
mixed pink and yellow coloring. When weather is hot, the pink coloring
deepens to almost red. Champaign Cocktail has pleasant fragrance, and it
appears to be disease resistant.
'Carefree Wonder' is my favorite rose. It just send out fragrant pink
flowers constantly. Although rose catalogs say its fragrance is 'slight',
to me its fragrance is very sweet when the bloom is just opening. This
rose is always disease free. If there is any flaw, it has to be its
fast opening to full open stage. I shot the picture when it is just right.
'Timeless' is a 1997 AARS winner. Its bloom has perfect form almost
every time. Its color is red with some pink overtune. Growth habit is
short and rounded.
'Secret' is a 1994 AARS winner. The bloom is white to light yellow
fringed with coral pink. Fragrance is spicy.
'All That Jazz' is a 1992 AARS winner. The bloom has nice orange color
with matching yellow stamins. The fragrance is medium citrus. The bloom
is non-fading, and lasts a long time.
'Bill Warriner' is a fragrant pink-apricot rose. This floribunda produces
many long lasting flowers. Flower form is great.
'French Perfume' is easily scortched in hot weather. Surviving blooms develop deeper red coloration gradually. At fully open stage the bloom may be entire red fringed with some yellow.
'Marijke Koopman' is a medium pink rose. Frangrance is light spicy.
These are two Cosmos flowers in the morning sun. Not shown are almost
100 more flowers on the same plant.
There is a humming bird feeder in the back yard. I get humming bird visits
all the time. They are quite bold, as you can tell from this picture.
I took this picture at no more than two feet from the bird.
