Barbara pruned her roses down in June, after their first bloom. The second bloom has started to appear with robust flowers. The recent rains have helped and often dappled our roses with rain drops, one of the garden’s great visual pleasures.

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The image that you see above, taken August 22, is of a small rose that has reached its most beautiful growth stage – between being a bud and being fully open. Its commercially known as the Oso Easy® Italian Ice® Rose.

The image below, taken yesterday, of an aromatic climbing rose fully open and highly fragrant. It’s commercially named after the famous English gardener and landscaper: the Gertrude Jekyll Rose®.

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Despite their names, as Juliet told her boyfriend: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” (Brooklin, Maine)

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