Celebrating gardens, photography and a creative life
To accentuate the beauty of a shrub rose, allow it to mingle with other plants, while indulging its desire to be the star of the show. Companion planting has a practical purpose as well as a creative one. Foliage of other plants can help to cover the bare soil and gnarled branches often found at the base of roses, and any mixed planting always attracts a broader range of beneficial insects, helping to keep the rose healthy. Continue reading “Shrub Roses As Companion Plants”
I liked the way sunlight was casting sharp shadows on the distressed textures of this abandoned red caboose on a railway that once brought life to towns on the banks of the Mississippi river.
I’m sharing this picture in token of my admiration for people who grow food. It’s one of our most defining, civilizing skills. Continue reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: Admiration”
This is one of my favourite rose pictures. I find it extra romantic, though it’s hard to say why. The clustering roses themselves, or the small detail of them being tied to their support? Perhaps; we don’t need poets to tell us that love binds where it frees. The leafy, bower-like setting helps and the pensive, shadowy statue in the background is casting her influence too. She seems to be waiting for someone rather than just admiring the view. Continue reading “Romance, Roses And Twelfth Night”
Classic English phone box, detail, found in Oxford, Mississippi (abstract).
Susan Rushton 