What does a soap opera have to do with my garden, well, I’ll tell you! My 3 Jackson & Perkins hybrid tea roses in white just started blooming. But here’s why I have 3 white rose bushes. I am an avid fan of All My Children, the only soap opera I watch. I record it on the DVR so I can fast forward through commercials and watch it when the children are sleeping and my husband is traveling. The children would ask too many questions and the husband thinks it’s too stupid for words. I’m a big fan though. Anyhow, back to white roses. Last year they had some wonderful white only flower arrangements on the show and all of a sudden it occurred to me that I had no white flowers in my garden. So, now I do and soon I will try to duplicate a white rose arrangement for my home. I’ll post a picture when I have enough roses for an All My Children arrangement. So, now you see why I needed 3 white rose bushes- to ensure I would have enough blooms all at once.
The complete list of what’s newly blooming:
- White hybrid tea roses
- Red climbing rose
- Pitcher plant
- Delphinium
- Mock orange
- Maltese cross (Lychnis coronaria)
- Yellow stalks (name coming!)
- Tickseed (Coreopsis lanceolata) (Asteraceae)
- Blue flowered rock garden plant (real name coming!)
