Lupins and Roses

Hello everyone,

Busy in the garden today. My friend from the Rose society came today and helped me landscape a new planter with ferns, wax begonias and a beautiful Sarah Bernhardt peony.

Today I have some photos of the pergola garden. The lupins are in full bloom and I love them so much. I've wanted to grow lupins for years and this year is the first year I have been successful with Lupins.

'Secret'

This hybrid tea rose has fragrant blooms. Defined in its patents as a bicolor bloom of Naples Yellow and Venetian Pink, in the garden most of these blooms are tricolored, with a tinge at the base of the petals of Naples Yellow that quickly blends to cream and turns to Venetian Pink (or when I was a kid- bubble-gum pink) near the edge of every true tea shaped petal. Amazing -- like a multi-tiered divine pink cake with a lemon butter fillings, and endless butter cream!

'Garden Party'

The color is basically ivory white, turning into cream with a hint of pink as they age. These cool shades look soothing among brighter colored roses, whether they are for a flower arrangement or used for bedding roses in the garden.

It is a very free- flowering rose that repeat blooms all season long. There is a pleasant sweet tea rose fragrance.

'Secret' 

The rose is planted next to the lupins.

My favorite Lupins and Secret Rose
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Joyously,
Betty