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Week of Flowers – Day 7

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Over the past week, Cathy at Words and Herbs encouraged people to post flower photos to help chase away the winter blahs, but since all good things come to an end, today is the last one of the series.

I’m not much of a joiner when it comes to blogging challenges, but this has been fun, and especially seeing the posts from other participants. So thank you to Cathy for this great idea and also to Jude from Cornwall in Colours through whom I first discovered the challenge.

Today I’m posting a number of favourite flower photos from May, June and July – good memories of summer.

May azaleas.
June geraniums.
Pretty in pink June roses.
July daisies.

And last but not least …

… July ice cream roses.

Happy summer memories – it will soon be back.

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A Week of Flowers

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Heyjude at Cornwall in Colours posted about the “week of flowers” idea from Cathy at Words and Herbs to help keep the winter blahs at bay.

Here are some of summer’s finest from Penticton’s rose garden.

October 1
October 15
October 20

If you would like to join, just link to Words and Herbs with your garden photo. Cheers.

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November Roses

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Penticton’s rose garden was still blooming just before we left for our holiday.

Not long after I took these photos, the gardeners did an autumn trim on all the other flowers and then followed up with the roses.

It’s lovely to have such gorgeous flowers blooming so late in the season, but they eventually had to be bedded down for their winter rest.

They will soon be back.

Happy Saturday.

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September Lovelies

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We are having a very lovely month with sunny warmth and windless days.

There are many flowers still blooming away and not showing any signs yet of slowing down.

Lots of sunflowers are still fresh and vibrant in their daily sun-follow.

This frilly rose could have easily been a spring bud, but it decided to wait.

Although it’s late for peonies, their heady scent and massive blooms are still lingering in some gardens, depending on their cultivar.

Happy Sunday.

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About Roses

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What’s in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet.

~ Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

[We have] our memories so that we might have roses in December.

~ J.M. Barrie

Of all the flowers, methinks a rose is best.

~ Fletcher and Shakespeare, Two Noble Kinsmen

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

~ Alphonse Karr, Lettres Écrites De Mon Jardin

Happy Monday.