On the rainy Friday of the Summer Solstice the Damascus roses opened and the 7 Sisters rose started to flower. I also got 3½ trays of rugosa petals, the most yet. The Damascus roses have the most beautiful scent. To dehydrate them, I will take the heads apart.
The little catalpa flowering
I will still have a catalpa tree, behind the woodshed. This is a good place for it, for while they are beautiful trees, they are also the very messiest of trees. Having this volunteer here means the huge leaves and pods will all fall down over the bank. I will not have to deal with them in the fall and spring.
One of the hidden benefits for my husband to now having the VA disability is that when he wants to buy me flowers, he can. For the last 20 years, he’d see flowers he wanted to get for me, but we simply couldn’t afford it. This makes him happy. (And me too!)
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What's a catalpa tree do? I think I've seen them before but, like so many other trees, I haven't looked into them.
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I took this this morning. They are a very softwood tree, this one looks like a good climbing tree, but I must be vigilante to make sure kids don't climb it. They are common in this area.
And a post I did on the Equinox:
https://steemit.com/homesteading/@goldenoakfarm/summer-equinox-june-21-2019-goldenoakfarm
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Awwwww... how LOVELY that he buys you flowers!
We don't grow roses as i wouldn't know how and they would feel out of place in my garden. But i would love to harvest them! I am thinking of an area i could put them where they wouldnt seem out of place...
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I started with roses because when I started the gardens in 1984, I could not afford to buy plants. So I used what I could scavenge and was given. My father had the climbing rose. My sister put the rose in when she built the Herb gardens around the house. I did buy the rugosa one year, and the 7 Sister a decade or so later. And Big rose came from BuyNothing. So like much in the early gardens, nothing was planned and had to grow where I had room for it. I have no idea where the Damascus rose came from, perhaps a bird... I certainly would not have planted such a nice rose in the middle of a lilac bush....
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