Wow, the winds were fierce today. The winds were strong at school and also near the coast. I saw a lot of dust clouds and debris as usual. Yesterday, I thoroughly watered all the roses and the garden. The bare root roses need to be watered deeply. People ask me if I will put my roses in the ground. Eventually I will.
Just shy of 150 pounds, the produce harvested at the Mott Street urban farm was donated to Downtown Women's Shelter and the Westside foodbank yesterday.
This is Charles Rennie Mackintosh by David Austin. This is a very pretty lilac-pink colored rose that has a peony-like look to them. It used to look like a sad little rose bush when I got it last year. It looked scraggly. I pruned and gave it a good dose of rose fertilizer. Now the rose plant looks so amazing. It started to bloom a week ago.
The next rose is Claire Austin I think. The label was partially missing when I got it. It looks like a Claire Austin judging from the description in the David Austin catalogue. The rose is so white. It has a lot of petals but less than the one above. You should have a white rose in your garden. The fragrance is not one of my favorites but you get used to it.
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