Flowers...one of my passions...

Photo 6 - September 29

Since Kayla has helped me pick out and plant a lot of my flowers, I try to send her pictures when they're in bloom. The first time I sent her a picture of one of the roses I had picked out and planted that had bloomed, I sent it by text, and identified it as Dick Clark, which is the name given to it by the grower who created the breed of rose. Her response was, "you're naming your roses now?" which made me laugh. She now knows that they come pre-named, and I don't name them myself. This rose is a Kordes rose called The Dark Lady. It seems my roses have gotten their second wind, and a bunch of them are reblooming. It's just sad that the growing season is so close to its end.

These pictures are of one of my clematis vines, name of which I cannot locate (shame on me). It is a clematis that blooms totally off of new growth, so in the spring I had baby robins in the dead remains from last year, and now it is in full bloom. The flowers are tiny, but the vine it totally covered with them.