Kerry’s Garden

The Paul’s H.M. rose is really putting on a show this year. I’ve noticed mine tends to show a little whiter than most of the photos I see online. Perhaps it is due to the lack of all day full sun?

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This is the third spring for this rose. I believe I am going to try my hand at propagation this year. I’m leaning towards bending one of the branches over and burying it after a light scraping of the bark and a touch of rooting powder. Perhaps by next spring I will have a second [...]

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Spring has sprung and beauty abounds. This is the first Harison’s Yellow of the year. Isn’t she pretty? These beauties have been blooming for a few days and will delight me again in the fall. These are just a few of the babies that will adorn the garden in a few days.

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This beauty didn’t make it through Eric’s judicious ‘thinning’ of unwanted plants. If I remember correctly this was one of his demo plants for the garden talk this spring. He was talking about pitching it and I offered to give it a home. It has rewarded me several times this summer with blooms. I am [...]

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First up is Darlow’s Enigma. This one is still quite small but it has an awesome scent. Ok Eric says that the name rose is much to dainty for this one. I believe his exact word was ‘strangler’. This Paul’s Himalayan Musk rose is on it’s third year. It gets full sun early in the [...]

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Ouch! This Paul’s Himalayan Musk rose cane and a couple of others just like it have been topped by one of our local, and getting braver by the day, deer. The picture is on the fuzzy side but look at those thorns for goodness sake! They are huge and red to boot. Isn’t red the [...]

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This is the Harison’s Yellow that Eric and I drove up north of Cincinnati to pick up last spring. Check out the thorns. I learned the hard way that this one takes a delicate touch when pruning.

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