My first roses. This one is a bright pink single and great smelling. I think maybe a Bonica..I'll need to see if I left the ID tag on it! I need to replant some roses this spring..a couple didn't survive the winter..too wet? Too cold? I doubt too cold since this is TN, but it was an unusually cold winter for here.
This last pic is a piece of my garden junk art. It was originally a metal Eiffel Tower clock in my old store but either a customer or my then 2 yr old tore the hands off the clock so home it came. It was green, but I painted it faux rust. Just alternately spritz it with red primer, black and brown spray paint..not solid coats(except the first coat) just a spritz here and there..you don't even let it dry between colors..just spritzes of black, spritz of brown, spritz of primer, back and forth until it looks like you want it too! Tres chic! Those are iris behind it too but they are yellow and not ginormous like Gramma's. I like lots of repurposed bits in my garden and flower beds! Tomarrow I will have pics of the raised beds we are making for the garden. Last night and this morning it poured so I am in a bit of a holding pattern. Maybe tonight it will be dried off. Hoping you have a beautiful day! Until next time! Julia
My first iris of the year! The iris is TN's state flower. You see quite a few blooming wild in the ditches. This is one from my flowerbed. It originally was in my husband's Gramma's garden in SD. When she passed and they were selling the house a few of us dug a few from her huge iris bed, I am amazed I didn't kill them! Mine are all purples and light and dark purple bicolors. She did have a few yellow and bronze ones but I never got any of those! These remind me of her when they bloom. Gramma Minnie was a sweet woman and a lifelong gardener. If you look in my older posts, she is the lady in the snowball fight with her husband..I think January posts!
My first roses. This one is a bright pink single and great smelling. I think maybe a Bonica..I'll need to see if I left the ID tag on it! I need to replant some roses this spring..a couple didn't survive the winter..too wet? Too cold? I doubt too cold since this is TN, but it was an unusually cold winter for here. 
This last pic is a piece of my garden junk art. It was originally a metal Eiffel Tower clock in my old store but either a customer or my then 2 yr old tore the hands off the clock so home it came. It was green, but I painted it faux rust. Just alternately spritz it with red primer, black and brown spray paint..not solid coats(except the first coat) just a spritz here and there..you don't even let it dry between colors..just spritzes of black, spritz of brown, spritz of primer, back and forth until it looks like you want it too! Tres chic! Those are iris behind it too but they are yellow and not ginormous like Gramma's. I like lots of repurposed bits in my garden and flower beds! Tomarrow I will have pics of the raised beds we are making for the garden. Last night and this morning it poured so I am in a bit of a holding pattern. Maybe tonight it will be dried off. Hoping you have a beautiful day! Until next time! Julia
