Flowers for Mother's Day

Bryan gave me flowers for Mother's Day, but not cut flowers that will die before the week is over.

Here is one of the two flower beds in the backyard last week.

Here it is about 1 p.m. on Mother's Day.

Voila! Flowers for Mother's Day.

The rose is an Oklahoma hybrid tea, which is also the Oklahoma State Flower. (It's not terribly pretty at the moment, but give it a few weeks.)

You might remember Bryan also gave me flowers for Valentine's Day. Go take a peek at the before/after photos and then look at how it's doing right now.

What's interesting is that we put the same plants on both sides. The geranium on the right is bushy and full, while the one of the left is still small, but both have bloomed several times. The gardenias had one bloom... but appear to be growing new leaves. The blue whatever is weedy looking but always has a blossom. I looked all over Lowe's for more of the Anne Greenway spotted dead nettle to plant in the front yard. I had never seen this shady ground cover before but it's really done well and taken over (from three little tiny plants!) and now it's blooming little purple flowers.

Here are close ups of my roses.

Queen Elizabeth.

Don Juan climber. I had a Don Juan in Galveston. (Gone now, even if the current owner took care of them, it wouldn't have survived Ike....)

I don't know the name of this yellow, which is unusual for me because I like to know my roses. But this one was given to me by Lisa when she dug hers up a few years ago. I'm amazed it's still alive because it was in that center garden almost completely overgrown by a butterfly bush.