Flowers have …

 

"Flowers have a mysterious and subtle influence

upon the feelings,

not unlike some strains of music. 

They relax the tenseness of the mind. 

They dissolve its vigor."  

Henry Ward Beecher

***

Oh yes they do.

Yesterday morning when I first went out, I was feeling kind of out of sorts, but after I saw some new blooms, I came back inside for my camera and after taking pictures, felt so much better.

La Marne

Old Blush

Penelope

Phyllis Bide

Prosperity

Smith’s Parish

***

"The roses under my window

make no reference

to former roses or to better ones;

they are for what they are;

they exist with God today. 

There is no time to them. 

There is simply the rose. 

It is perfect in every moment of its existence."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

***

Hope you all have a great week wherever you are,

whatever you do.

Old Blush and Smith's Parish Roses

Here are two more roses that are really putting out the blooms right now. I love them both.

These two roses were given to me by a gardening friend who lives about an hour south of us. I met her through a gardening forum, and she no longer wanted these so asked if I wanted them.

The first is Old Blush, and the second is Smith's Parish which is a Bermuda rose.

Click on pictures for larger view.































******

Like the musician,
the painter,
the poet,
and the rest,
the true lover of flowers is born,
not made.
And he/she is born to happiness
in this vale of tears,
to a certain amount of the purest joy
that earth can give her children,
joy that is tranquil,
innocent,
uplifting,
unfailing.

Celia Thaxter, An Island Garden, 1894

******

Zone 10 ~ s.e. FL