I call this bed my Memorial Garden, because I began planting a flower in it each time I lost a loved one.  I bought this knockout rose bush about 3 years ago.  I was told it’ll bloom and grow quickly.  I didn’t have much luck with roses but I decided to give it a try since it was on sale.  Well I’ve been very happy with the blooms on the rose bush, and it keeps growing strong.  I hadn’t really paid too much attention to it because it just kept blooming without needing lots of  much attention.  This year I decided to tend to this large bed along side the house.    Didn’t realize how big the bed had gotten and how much the flowers had grown.  The rose bush grew out of control (which is a wonderful thing).  I needed a trellis to train it to grow up – because its growing wide and covering up the other plants around it.  I honestly didn’t think this bush would have grown so much.   You can see it in this picure peeking behind the A/C unit.

Garden trellises can be expensive – especially for a big one to hold this size bush.  I had an old wrought iron bed I bought at an auction a few years back and never got to use it.  I loved the rusty-aged look of the bed.

Well I decided to finally tame the wild rose bush and put her in the  bed.

No need to go buy a new trellis – I think the bed will do her well neatly tucked in the bed.

There’s something magical about the rain water for plants. I can water and feed them to grow, but there’s something in the rain that gives them that complete burst of growth. We’ve had lots of rain the past two weeks and even though I was tired of it, after looking at the significant growth in my flower beds, I had to smile and thank God for his magic water (not to mention what I saved on my water bill). In just two weeks my beds went from this :

Sedum Plants

To this:       I also saved some money because I was able to use pine straw for a bed running along the house. I took advantage of my cousin’s pine tree droppings. Having wood mulch near the house worries me about termites so I was happy to use the free straw to cover this large bed. The confederate jasmine is in full bloom and smells so sweet.

the daffodils have bloomed