Roses are Red

Roses are red well... Maybe yellow and white and pink.

I am going to show you some of my roses I planted in place of some bushes we moved from the front of the house.

My sweet friend made me this cute garden wreath for my front door.  It was a birthday present for me in April.  She made it from things in her stash at home since we were all quarantined.  I think she did a great job working with things she had.  It means more to me that she hand made this with love.

On my front porch I have a chippy white chair with a flowering plant.  I am going to paint the porch and steps and sidewalk soon.  I did this in another home and it came out very nice.  You use garage floor paint.  I just think it will make the cement a little prettier.

I ordered this yellow mailbox to match my front door.

I found this little moss bird planter with a vine and flowering impatiens growing.  Thought this was really a cute planter.

I decided to plant some climbing roses on the arch to train them to grow and fill in this archway.

I had this bike basket in black from a long time ago.  I decided to paint it cream and chippy it a little bit for the garden gate.

I am hoping all the perennials I have added to the picket fence will take and love their new home.  I have to tell ya at 62 years old my knees and back let me know the planting of so many annuals each year are over!

If the climbers do well on the archway next year I will plant more climbers on the other side of this picket to grow along the top of the picket to add color and fragrance.

This is one of the David Austin Climbing Roses I found at my garden center.  I wanted pink but they were sold out early so I settled on yellow.

It is already beginning to grow up and lots of buds starting to open.  I will continue to train it to grow up and over the arch.  I put one on each side and hope they will meet up at the top of the arch.

This is where a big old ugly dead tree was taken down when we moved in last summer.  I made it into a space for the birds to have a little place to splash in the water.

I love to use old chippy chairs people have discarded back into my garden.

I put a climber on the porch post of this old birdhouse.  I hope it will take and I can train it to grow up and all around the birdhouse.

When we pulled out the old bushes from the front I planted hydrangeas and David Austin New Dawn roses.  The hosta was there and I left it.  Hoping this will all fill in nicely.

My peonies are very close to opening up.  I love when I see all kind of buds just waiting to spring open.

The New Dawn roses are already opening.  They are a very light yellow rose.  Very big blooms that are so fragrant.

Keeping positive all my perennials will start to fill in and love their new space for years to come.  If I can get the roses to do well I will add new varieties each year.  We are in the right zone for roses but sometimes it can be tricky to grow them here.

Flower boxes were filled with pink this year.

They are already spilling over early so that is a good sign they like the amount of sunshine they get out front.  In the midwest we do well with petunia's.  They grow easily.  The only issue with petunia's is the dead heading.  A lot of you have asked me how I get my flowers to grow so big.  They are the perfect flowers for our growing zone.  They have a great start at the garden center where I buy them and I feed them weekly with miracle grow and water daily.

This is the beginning of the flowers for the front yard.  I hope to show you all these flowers blooming and getting bigger in the future months.  Have a lovely Friday and wonderful weekend.

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