Still Blooming

As a request from my editor and partner in crime who helped dig the plots and mowed the lawn to plant roses that bloom more than once a year.  No, I didn’t know when I started this garden that some roses bloom only once in spring.  I came from a place where roses bloom all year round (the sub-tropics) so I assumed that it should be the same here.  The first couple of roses I planted put on a show of colors in spring then nothing else for the rest of the season.  Though they offered nothing else but a home to the birds, they are still worth keeping.

Learning from my mistakes plus his request, the roses I’ve been planting after the first batch are either re-blooming or bloom continuously.  Even in the uneven weather we’ve had this year they are still performing well.  Blackspot fungus caused some damage to Eden and William Shakespeare roses, but they still try their best to give the garden some color.  Here are a few that didn’t get beaten up too badly by the recent storm.