All the heat, sun and rain of the past few weeks has made everything in my garden go into overdrive. And a lot of my flowers are in bloom and looking pretty – actually it seems like everything is in bloom. I’m especially liking the coreopsis and salvia, and I’m looking forward to some of the veggies and fruits that will come from the other garden.
But what I’m most entertained by right now are my roses and snapdragons, because they’re not the colors I thought they’d be. The snapdragons came from the same six-pack but I have four purple and two yellow. Luckily, they look good together and when I split them between two containers, I got one yellow in each pot. I must have gotten lucky with that considering none of them were in bloom when I planted them.
But the roses, they’ve become a bit of a guessing game. If you remember, I chose very specific colors for my roses. And for a while it even looked like it was going to work out – one of the ones labeled as a red Oklahoma rose, had a nice, dark red bud, that opened to a nice, rich pink. The next rose to open was supposed to be White Lightning and maybe it is, but it looks more like a light lemon yellow than white to me. The other two roses, haven’t opened yet, but I think from the bud colors that they’re not going to right either. The second Oklahoma looks like it’s going to be whiter than the White Lightning and the Voodoo, which I think is supposed to be a orangey-yellowy-salmony multicolor thing, looks like it’s going to wind up being light pink. But this is what you get when you buy cheap roses – extra days of entertainment.
I will say, that I do like both my white and pink roses so far. They’re not what I expected, but they’re pretty. I’m withholding judgment on the the other two, especially the Voodoo until they actually flower.
