Photos: Flowers and a Tumbler

 The Wild Prairie roses are in bloom, and the yellow irises keep putting on new blossoms. The third photo is the insulated tumbler daughter Hannah gave me. It's covered with dried flowers and leaves, with a layer of clear epoxy over it. At the moment, it's filled with peach-mango ice tea.

The Old-Fashioned roses are about to bloom.  I have several of these bushes around my house.  They came from a root I found at my mother's place after the house had been hauled away.  I knew it was where a flowerbed had been, so I took it home, cut it into three pieces, and put them each into the ground.  I was so delighted when spring arrived and dark red leaves popped up -- and I knew what it was:  the Old-Fashioned roses!  

 

 

My mother started hers with clippings from my Grandma Winings' bush in North Dakota.  Mama cut them, wrapped them in wet paper towels and put them into a plastic bag, brought them home to Nebraska and planted them, and they grew and blossomed every year since the early 1960s.

From my three bushes from that one large root, I have divided and transplanted, and now have five Old-Fashioned rosebushes around the yard.

Peonies

Peony bud

Spent peony blossom