The Red Roses Are In Full Bloom!!!

It is Sunday, and I have clean sheets on my bed, the washer is running, and I’m enjoying my morning coffee. It is a beautiful day, and later I will walk.

Here are the roses. They curve around the porch, which got cleaned yesterday and put back to rights, which had not happened yet in the pictures below.

The Asian Jasmine (not a real Jasmine) is plush this year. Will it finally bloom? I hope so. The blooms are said to be white and very fragerant. (The grass is suffering from the drought, but I watered a few days ago.)

It took most of yesterday to clean the screened porch, which involves washing the pine pollen drenched rug, washing winter mold from the blinds that can be pulled down to screen the porch for privacy and from the afternoon sun, washing pillows and cushions, and, of course, washing the floor.

Now I can’t wait to eat my noon meal and read for a bit out on this shiny, clean porch.

The lavender and the yellow miniature rose are both blooming right outside the back porch door. They are next to my kitchen garden herbs.

My grandmother name is “Lovey.” The little concrete heart was made for me in 2005 by the older two grandchildren (with a lot of help from their mother) and delivered to me in Maine on one of their family’s visits. Of course it came to South Carolina with me. We moved to Maine in 2004, and the two girls in that family were not yet born. So that little heart is now 21 years old. Memories…

The white azaeleas on the side of the house are so pretty this year. They were transplanted from the front of the house as it was way too hot out there for them. And they have struggled as the soil on the side of the house is very poor. But two years of fertilizer and nutrients is showing, despite the ongoing drought that really needs to stop–without jinxing us with the dreaded “H” word.

And, a long view, with the camellia at the end:

My little front porch has a bench now, made and gifted by my beloved neighbors. Earlier this spring, I got a nice pottery pot for Impatient plants and repurposed a pot gifted to me at Christmas that now holds a Foxtail fern.

The Foxtail fern is putting out new growth, so maybe it will be happy in this spot for the summer.

Beyond the front porch is a bed of Drift white roses and hollies that came with the house that are now thriving. The roses are covered with bloom buds, but that will be a picture for another day.

Have a great upcoming week everyone.