… the jasmine’s in bloom!
For those who don’t remember Seals and Crofts, Summer Breeze is one of those songs of my youth that literally brings back tons of memories:
Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
My other favorite song of their was “Diamond Girl”. One time, I was riding in the car with my boyfriend and this line of the song came on the radio:
Diamond Girl, roamin’ wild. Such a rare thing, radiant child.
I could never find, another one like you…
And he looked at me and grinned and said, “That’s for sure!”
Mmmm, so many other beauties blooming in the garden today, like this one, a rose called Whisper, which smells as gorgeous as it looks:
And this one is Sheila’s Perfume, which is probably my absolute favorite rose. The scent of this one is amazing!
And so many, many more… I love this time of year!
[ok, a bit early for summer, but it certainly feels like it here already! And the jasmine and Whisper are gorgeous again, so I had to repost this from last year….)
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Your roses are so beautiful!
Your roses are simply fabulous..
omg….I LOVE that song.
Beautiful pics!!
I am green with envy! My poeticus narcissus and narcissus Manly – both fragrant – have faded and fallen. When I lived in Austin I grew confederate jasmine (trachelospermum jasminoides) It grew like mad through the blistering summers. One winter’s frost cut it to the ground, but it came back, big as ever next year. I bought it when I knew nothing of plants. I would take early Sunday morning forays to a nearby nursery and hunt for plants with my nose. I think jasmine was my best find. I loved its scent best. But I also loved mandevilla Alice duPont for that “Juicy Fruit” smell.
As for roses, my own luck with HT’s is almost uniformly bad. But there are some exceptions. I am head-over-heals in love with Memorial Day and New Zealand. Both pretty much bullet-proof and deliciously fragrant. And I have some very healthy Midas Touch. Electron, and Marijke Koopman, not all fragrant. Still, my batting average with HT’s is about 30%. I do better with English Roses, Hybrid Musks, minis, and Albas, about 25 cultivars in all. My own photos ( collected from many gardens ) can be found at rosefile.com.
Thanks for evoking some very fond gardening memories. Great Pictures!
Wow, Steve, your pics are beautiful!
I have a Secret rose that is very fragrant and just grows amaxingly well. Also a climbing Angel Face that is truly heavenly, but gets powedery mildew at times. My climbing Fourth of July is going all-out right now, but isn’t fragrant. The amazing Cecile Bruner is finishing up its show, and the pink petals are everywhere. I miss that big cloud of pink out my window, though.
I grew what I called my fragrant garden for ages – lots of scented geraniums, freesias (yummy!) chocolate flower, lilies (again, yummy!) and sage (at one time I had 65 different salvias…)
Now, with the climate change killing off plants I’ve had here for 20 years, I grow what survives the extreme lows and highs. Sigh.