Fall roses and a note...

The final flush of roses is on in the garden now and

 I thought I would share a few pictures I have been taking of them ...

in the house and in the garden.

This pretty little rose is Colette. A  'Romantica Rose'.

It is an extremely vigorous rose, and does well here in my garden. 

It can be trained as a short climber. One of them grows on the south side of my house.

Below is a view of it now in it's second bloom cycle.

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I love this rose below, but don't have the name of it right now. I have it written down,

but didn't take the time to find it. It looks a lot like my 'Angel Face' rose, but has

a little more peach in it.

I have it sitting in the kitchen window.

Sure wish you could smell this pretty thing.

It dries beautifully too.

The rose below is 'Morden Blush'. I can't get enough of this rose,

and so I have several bushes in my garden.

The rose below is 'Moxie'.
This rose shows up almost like a neon light in the garden.

I love it's form and scent, and wish I could find another.

My mother gave me this rose, so it is very special to me.

For any of you that have 'Bonica' in your garden, I don't need to tell you 

how special this rose is. 

Perfect in almost every way for us cold Winter gardeners.

She is just covered with blooms right now, and goes into Winter blooming like crazy.



You can look out in December and see the frozen blooms still clinging to it.

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I wanted to show the sight along the driveway right now.
 We have this little arbor over the iron headboard gate that I have on my sidebar, and

the morning glory is blooming now and looks so pretty. 

Morning Glory are one of those 'granny garden' plants that I love so much.

I had an elderly friend who has long since passed away, and she had them growing

everywhere. I think they are charming in every way.

A peek of the gazebo through the arbor

I'm not catching on to Blogger's new way of loading pictures, so this picture of my 'Morden Blush'

rose should have been below the pictures of the bouquets of it above.

Just a view of it on the bush.

The picture above and the one below, are of the roses growing along the driveway now.

Finally Fall is coming to the garden, although it is still very green,

some of the trees are starting to color up a bit.
I am madly cutting things back, and getting the garden ready for it's

long Winter nap.

Now is when I wish I could hire someone to help me.

But, boy do I need the exercise, so I will go it alone for another year.

You can see that the pruners are missing from my little bucket

tied to my tree. I wonder where the heck I've laid them down now.

I had a lot of questions about the horses near my little getaway, and thought I would answer

you here. Yes I do ride, but haven't for quite awhile. I think it has to do a lot with

wondering how I could take care of Landon, if I fell off and broke something, LOL!

My husband goes up about every other day to check the amount of grass

in which ever pasture they are on at the time. It is time for them to go on the hillside now,

because the grass is plentiful there now, and for some reason

 they love the dry grass that grows there.

The water is plentiful, because of the creek and the natural springs that are there.

We have seven horses total and love 'em.

In the late Fall, we bring them to the home place and stable them here. 

Then they sulk all Winter, until they can be on their forty acres, 

pretending to be wild ponies again. 

Thank you for all of the wonderful messages you left me about the shack

(okay, I'll change it's name)

 I cherish them, and the friendships we have forged  here.