A Cottage Rose

 The old rose bush 

outside the dining room window
(at the back of the cottage)

is in full bloom.

I wish I knew it's name

and what kind of a rose it is.

I think it was planted

around the time the house was built

in the late 1940's. 

It is a HUGE old bush

that blooms once a year.

What it lacks in longevity...

it makes up for with profusion!

It doesn't seem to have much 

of a scent and the

colors range from red...a very 

dark pink

to a light fuchsia.

All this color on one rose bush!

When we moved to the farm 

nearly 3 years ago

it was very overgrown

and there was a lot of old dead

branches.

I gave it a good pruning

late that winter

and it must have been what it needed

as it has grown very well

with very little attention since then. 

 

If only everything else 

on the farm would grow so well!

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Have a wonderful week! 

Flowers For Leontien

Sending you Love {{HUGS}} and Best Wishes as well Leontien.

I am joining 

Nancy

over at a 

A Rural Journal

 

Feathers Flowers Fur And Flutterbyes

Time flies when you're a chick...you don't 

stay little for long.

 Francis (on left) Chloe and Phoebe 

are growing like weeds

and in these photo's are 5 days old.

This is Francis above...

you can see her little wing

feathers coming in.

She has a white feather

near the bottom of her wing. 

This is Chloe.

She's my favorite. 

She will be more like her

adopted Mom in coloring

only with less gold 

and more black.

 

In the foreground is little Phoebe.

She sticks pretty close to her sister

Francis.

The chicks daddy is Romeo who 

is watching from the other side

of the fence. 

He is such a nice rooster

and was a blue ribbon winner

at the county fair 

when he was a cockerel :)

 

Golda is a VERY good mamma.

She's super protective

and works hard to teach

them how to scratch and peck 

for food.

Above she is showing little

Francis a bug on the fence.

And here Golda has spotted 

Shep on the other side of 

the fence.

She doesn't miss a thing

and if he was silly enough to 

stick his nose up to the fence

he'd get a good peck

on the nose!

 

Now that I've bored you  with

'chick pics'

here are some flower photo's for you

to see. 

Above is the first bloom to open on

my David Austin Graham Thomas

climbing rose.

This is only it's second season

and I had to move it last fall

so the plant is just getting used 

to it's new location.

Hopefully by this fall 

it is climbing the fence. 

Above is a flower bed I planted last spring.

The drought was hard on it

and there was no rock border so 

the water tended to run off.

Last weekend Hubby and I hauled

these rocks over from the pile

and set them in place.

Most of them came from the

foundation of our old 

barn that we lost

in a fire nearly 2 yrs ago. 

 

 

Henry had to come over to see 

what I was doing. 

These are some of the smaller rocks 

and you are only seeing the top half 

of each of them.

They were HEAVY.

 

I finally found the perfect

place for the old  hand plow.

 

There was another reason 

that Henry came to 

see what I was doing.

 

He had been watching these 

'flutterbyes'

on the Salvia.

 

 

They had his undivided attention.

Here's a couple on the

rhododendron.

  

I hope you have enjoyed 

your visit here on the farm and

I hope you have a

wonderful week! 

:)

The Colors Of Spring

 

Color...this is definitely a spring full 

of color for us here on the farm.

This time last year

THIS 

is what our fenced in

area close to the house looked like...

  ....it was brown dirt and sand.

  

 

On March the 24th THIS year

I mowed the lawn for the first time this year

and most of the plants I had put in the garden

last year were up.

The daffodils were blooming.

It was the beginning of color here on the farm.

 

 

 This is my favorite Hosta...

it's name is Marmalade.

:)

It's a perfect name don't you think?

 

Right now the Columbine are the stars

of the garden.

I love their soft pinks and yellows. 

I'd like to plant more of these if I can find them.

 

The 'Fairy House' yard needs a bit of work.

 

 

 

The rhododendron I planted last fall

is starting to bloom.

I just hope all these plants still look good 

when the hot summer sun is here

as one of the trees that gave 

a lot of these plants 

the shade

they needed has

all but died. 

Many of them will have to be moved

if the sun becomes too much for them

but time will tell.  

  

This is another Hosta I really like.

I thought the heat and drought 

last summer had killed it 

and a few of the others

including 'Marmalade'

but they shocked me by

coming back. 

:)

 

This poor weather vane 

has moved 3 times

with us and has been knocked over

and blown over

and been beaten with hail. 

This summer it will again be covered

with Red Trumpet Vine

that has been here for many years.

Yes it's definitely 

a colorful spring on the farm

and summer will

have a hard act to follow.

I hope you are enjoying a colorful

spring where ever you are.

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