Our Best Year for Roses!

A close-up of pink roses blooming amidst green leaves in a sunny garden setting.

I am sooo pleased to share our rose garden with you today! A couple of weeks ago, I shared some of the roses as they were just starting to bloom while sharing other plants and their spring blooms. Such a happy time here in the spring! Let’s take a rose garden tour…

A person holding a large, blooming white rose against a background of green foliage.

After leaving our last rose garden in California, because we were forced to sell after Charles lost his job the year prior, I was worried that I couldn’t grow roses here in North Texas. I had heard from many people that they just don’t do well here in this part of Texas, and I found that devastating.

Not only did I have to leave our last garden, but to never have roses again? I didn’t want to lose having roses in the garden as they are by far my favorite flower. I needed that emotional recovery.

Sunlit garden scene featuring potted plants, including a blooming pink flower and white flowers in terracotta pots. — A Rosy Walk in the Garden (2018) ~ Starting new roses in Texas outside our RV.

It has definitely been a trial as I began gardening up in Sanger, Texas, in pots when we were living in our RVs. I actually had a person at one garden center tell me to only water those roses twice a week during the heat of summer! I stupidly listened and almost lost them… Thankfully, they recovered over the next winter.

A cluster of pink roses with green leaves in a garden setting. — Mary Rose, a David Austin English Rose ~ taken at our former home in California.

One of the first photographs used on my blog but pulled from Pinterest and originally on Weebly, then on Blogger… I couldn’t copy and paste in WP because it was saved through Weebly which is how I ended up going to my Pinterest to find it. 😉

Not the clearest, but you can see what Mary Rose looks like full-grown. My son Peter actually took this photograph with his camera (2015) and I love the bokeh (blurriness) in the background.

A close-up of a blooming pink rose with green leaves and a bud, set against a wooden fence and soft-focus background.

A blooming pink rose surrounded by green leaves, with a blurred wooden fence in the background.

David Austin’s Mary Rose here in North Texas along the west back fence.

Climbing Roses along the South House

Climbing rose bush with soft pink blooms growing against a brick wall.

A garden scene featuring a brick wall with climbing rose plants and white flowers, surrounded by green shrubs and foliage, alongside a wooden bench.

Here is Sceptre d’Isle really starting to bloom…

Climbing rose bushes with white and light pink flowers against a brick wall.

Close-up of white roses blooming against a brick wall, with soft green leaves in the background.

To me, Sceptre d’Isle is one of the prettiest roses from the David Austin collection! 🙂 The roses in this location were planted roughly four years ago. You can find that planting posting HERE.

A hand holding a large white rose bloom against a backdrop of green foliage.

Iceberg lives on the opposite end of that wall along with Olivia Austin, a lovely pale yellow rose (below).

A white rose blooming on a green rose bush next to a metal fence post.

Close-up of pink flowers growing in a garden, with a brick wall and green foliage in the background.

A lush garden scene featuring blooming white roses among green foliage and a brick pathway.

Roses along the Garden Shed

A garden scene featuring a light pink climbing rose plant against a gray wall, surrounded by green shrubs and potted plants in a well-maintained backyard.

This is the only rose we have which is once-blooming ~ Eden (Pierre de Ronsard) is a lovely rose I first saw in a gardening catalog. It can become a good-sized climber over time ~ growing from 10 – 12 feet in length. I hope to keep moving the canes up along this south wall, and while writing this, I realize I could cross the canes if they grow long enough to create a “lattice.” That might be stunning!

It would mirror the actual lattice we have down below (backed by wire mesh) to discourage critters from getting in underneath the shed.

A blooming rose bush with pale pink flowers climbing along a gray wall in a garden, surrounded by greenery.

If you’d like to see more of when this area of the garden began, check out this post HERE. Can you believe these roses?? Stunning!

A View along the South Fence

A woman with long, wavy hair smiles in front of a wooden fence adorned with blooming white roses, with trees and houses visible in the background.

Me in my happy place!

A wooden fence with green climbing roses and a metal pole, showcasing a variety of foliage and a few blooming flowers.

Tranquility runs along the south fence and is quietly pretty. Walking out with Charles the other evening, the white roses really shone.

A close-up of a climbing rose plant featuring a white bloom and two pink buds against a weathered wooden background.

I hadn’t realized that, by chance, a white garden had been created, even if it lasts only for a short time each year. 🙂

A white rose blooms beside a metallic post, surrounded by green leaves and a wooden fence.

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you’ve enjoyed this tour of our rose garden.

A woman smiling for a selfie in a garden, with a brick house and a greenhouse in the background, surrounded by greenery and flowers.

Here’s another final photo of me sharing the stage with many blooms in the background… The reason I have these is because I was trying to get a new portrait photo for our blog!