Mosaic Monday

I tried out a PSE tutorial that someone else was doing on one of my favorite photo editing message boards http://www.davesgarden.com/ ,   the roses are from my garden, the butterflies are from Reiman's Butterfly House that we visited this past Saturday.

Roses in the Sky with Sunshine

I took these 2 photos a few weeks ago at Reiman Gardens, I love the blue sky as a back drop for anything.

Roses of Last Summer

I am sitting here looking out at a wet rose bed thinking of last summer and how pretty the view was then. I was playing around with Picasa tonight, the last two collages are all the same rose bush, who knows maybe the same rose :).

Roses of Reiman Gardens Aug 2007

I am ready to get my fingers dirty again, how about you? Right now the only dirty fingers I am getting is transplanting houseplants, which I do try to do each winter.

Jackson and Perkins Catalog

The Jackson and Perkins catalog arrived yesterday, as I mentioned in an earlier post I do not have many hybrid tea roses. But my husband was nice enough to build me a raised rose bed last summer after we visited Reiman Gardens and seeing the roses there made us both miss the teas. It was late June before the bed was done so only two bushes were planted last summer. Both bushes did well, the red one is Okalahoma, the pink one is Truely Yours. I have my fingers crossed that they make it through the winter.

Double Delight was always my favorite, I see it is still available from Jackson & Perkins so I will order that one for sure plus a few of the fragrant ones. Plus one floribunda caught my eye, Heaven on Earth, it has large peony shaped flowers and is fragrant.