Memorial Day

Kitty - Glad you rescued them, such beautiful roses,

So pretty Kitty!

I think I just have a few roses in bloom just now, so I am going to think of it as a power deadheading.

The heavy layer of horse manure topped by wood chips seems to be keeping our roses pretty happy and evenly damp. At least they all have buds and growth and look happy.

I did add a few new fruit trees and move berry vines in the past couple of days and weeks, those are the ones I worry about drying out (or blowing over) but hopefully they will be fine. Getting water and the same manure/mulch cover.

But it hard to look at fried plants.

Beautiful pictures; Memorial Day is divine. We're having the same conditions here and out here in the boonies the biggest fear of course is fire. I watered everything like mad last night and will do the same tonight since tomorrow is expected to be the same. This too shall pass. If it would only rain!

Ingrid

Gorgeous, Kitty! It's fall and it always seems to be windy here in the fall. I end up chasing my Halloween decorations around every year, lol!

Love those pics--beautiful roses.

Please don't blow away. Grab those roses and dig your heels in!

Kate

Oh my!!! My favorite rose is Memorial Day. Those are gorgeous roses you have there! I never get THAT many roses - and they're not THAT big. The heat in your zone must make a lot of difference, I'm thinking. WOW!!!!

I remember living in Fort McMurray (northern Alberta) ZONE 2!! I had a hardy rose, Therese Bugnet. Smells divine. But EVERY time for 5 years - WHENEVER it bloomed we had TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE winds. I never got more than a few hours with the blooms. Annoyed the heck out of me!!!!
Carol :)

Looking good Kitty! :) Damm wind!

Kitty, if only I could get my Memorial Day rose to bloom half as nicely as yours, That's a beautiful bouquet. Hope the wind just blows itself up. I detest wind, which we have lots of. Diane

Poor roses. Many of them are tall leafless things with buds on the tips. It looks like a herd of deer were here. The bamboo windbreak protected some of them but any flowers that were present are destroyed. Poor Comtesse de Provence looks like the flowers were put in a fryer. Strangely enough a Lions Rose that got whipped around never lost any petals. That is a tough rose and the sturdy canes held all their leaves as well.

We are in the break between the hills where the Santa Ana riverbed is so the wind roars through here more than other places.

so far, knock on wood, no wind here

The pictures are breathtaking!