Yesterday at Home Depot, I bought some flowers (my daughter Hannah was with me and she complained that I must be addicted to gardening or something). I got some yellow and some purple pansies and some white and some pink-to-purple English daisies. I also bought two bare-root roses at Wal-Mart. The roses are a floribunda called ‘Nearly Wild.’ They grow only 2-3 feet tall and spread out about 3 feet. I’m going to put them as specimen plantings up among the aspen trees when I cover that area with weed blocking fabric and compost or bark. They’ll add some interest to the ground level among those tall trees, and they’re supposed to flower all summer till frost.
Here’s what this rose looks like, from a photo found on the web.
Flower all summer till frost? Yeah, right! I get a decent spring bloom from this shrub (one of them died), but that’s pretty much it. No summer blooms at all. It’s still very small, too — only about 18″ tall. Maybe I don’t give it enough water, since it’s in an area only watered by a drip soaker line, and it doesn’t get much from that line.