Tuesday, February 7, 2012

spring roses


Just outside the garage, growing beside the concrete apron is an old white crepe myrtle with a very thick trunk, unusual for crepe myrtles that like to spring up new branches from the root all the time. They'd be giant shrubs if you let them, but somehow this one has grown into a tree and it is quite tall. Nearby it grow two oak trees.


Someone, in the past, planted two climbing roses at the base of this crepe myrtle and they, too, look as though they have been there a long time. These two climbing roses have climbed up into the crepe myrtle and leaped across to the oaks, where their branches mingle, with arching bridges and dangling lines, they have grown far up in the trees where they bloom twice a year.


They had been blooming for a week, close to full bloom when we were packing the truck for our week in Austin and I was afraid that I was going to miss them, that they would be bloomed out by the time we got back. But I needn't have worried. They have been beautiful, starting to wane a bit now but it will take another two weeks I think before they will be completely done. Then I must wait til fall when they do it again.




18 comments:

  1. Beautiful! That was one thing that amazed me about the deep south, plants that I thought were small grew into trees and vines that reached for the sky. You are lucky to have this beauty so close.

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  2. flowers in the sky! so cool for you . . . . steven

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  3. Hm, you've got yourself a rose tree there!

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  4. Very nice indeed.here they would get nipped and have to be pruned back heavy every year.

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  5. Oh, how wonderful to have those to look forward to twice a year. They are so pretty.

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  6. wow, that is so cool! i love your merged canopy!

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  7. Oh how fun! So beautiful
    Hugs
    SueAnn

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  8. I don't think I've ever seen roses grow like this before. They're so lovely growing in the tree like that.

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  9. What a lovely sight to have overhead.

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  10. How pretty! I love the idea of a rose tree :)

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  11. Looking forward to spring flowers...

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  12. it looks almost magickal...how fortunate you are to have them grace your life twice a year. Lovely. Oma Linda

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  13. I am jealous! I have never had any luck with roses. I love that it grows wild through the trees.

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  14. That rose looks very nice, I like to see them growing wild as nature intended.

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  15. you can't be serious. Roses in Jan/Feb? Never.
    Is that because everything dies in the summer?

    Re your previous post: Well done.

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  16. Ms. Ellen, I have left an award for you on my blog. Oma Linda

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  17. how wonderful that they all grow together
    and they're beautiful

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  18. Pretty!

    We had two crepe myrtles on our property when I was growing up. They never grew much taller than me - and they're 40 years old now. :)

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