Peggy Martin

Most roses, in our part of Texas, LOVE our cool spring and fall season.
They survive the hot, humid summers, and when fall starts cooling, they really show off.
Some bloom all through our cool, wet, winter.
My only roses are thorn-less,
'hopefully' fragrant,
and if they have any hopes of living, they are tough as nails.
Peggy Martin qualifies.
I found out about Peggy Martin, repeat cluster bloom, completely thorn-less, rambler and just HAD to have one.
(please read her interesting story below)
With all the rain we have had, this darling is really showing out...
Meet Peggy Martin Rose...


"Current Status of "Peggy Martin Rose" - Spring, 2008.

The "Peggy Martin Rose" was one of only two plants (the other crinum) surviving 20 feet of salt water over the garden of Mrs. Peggy Martin, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, after the destruction of Hurricane Katrina in late August, 2005.

Since then, it has been introduced into commerce in the United States and has become a symbol among gardeners and rose lovers of a tenacious plant associated with a spirit of renewal and regrowth in the aftermath of a devastating blow of Nature against those living and gardening in the Gulf Coast area.

Dr. Bill Welch shared cuttings of this rose which he had taken from Peggy Martin's garden in 2003 and established at his country home near Burton, Texas with six growers who have made the rose available to rose lovers everywhere. The growers are:

Antique Rose Emporium
9300 Lueckmeyer Road
Brenham, TX 77833
800-441-0002
http://www.antiqueroseemporium.com

Chamblee’s Rose Nursery
10926 US Hwy 69 North
Tyler, TX 75706
800-256-ROSE
http://www.chambleeroses.com

Petals from the Past Nursery
16034 County Rd. 29
Jemison, AL 35085
205-646-0069
http://www.petalsfromthepast.com

King’s Nursery
Hwy 84 East,
Tenaha,Texas 75974
409-248-3811

Naconiche Nursery
12082 Hwy 59N
Nacogdoches, TX 75965
936-569-2247

Treesearch Farms
7625 Alabonson
Houston, TX 77088
713-937-9811
www.treesearchfarms.com
Fax 713-937-1224 Wholesale Only

These growers are generously donating $1 per plant to the Greater Houston Community Foundation, with the purpose of assisting in the task of garden restoration projects in New Orleans, Beaumont and other Gulf Coast locations. With its good looks and healthy vigor, the "Peggy Martin Rose" is well on its way to becoming a classic garden mainstay for those wanting a mannerly climber that is thornless, with abundant pink clusters of small flowers. After it has become established, it reblooms in the fall when the hot temperatures abate."

Taken from "Peggy Martin Rose"

Fertilizer Friday

Very Straw-berry

Soooooooo pretty!!
I'm loving watching these plants go from bloom to fruit right before my eyes.
My plants are fruiting very quick, probably because,
all though they were healthy adult plants,
were root bound and underfed in the old pot they were in.
Now they have room, good soil, and plenty of water.
Queen Uno suggested the strawberry tower for Blooming Tuesday today.
You will notice she takes it upon herself to personally to over see the growth of hubby's strawberries.
(I'm hoping to have some fresh ripe ones for when he comes home later this week.:)

~This message has been approved of by Queen Uno~

~Long Live The Queen!~

Happy Tuesday!!

Blooming Tuesday!!

Cats On Tuesday!!

Basset Luv

Our pretty red basset girl,
Reba Marie Waddlebottom,
has not been well.
Seems a cut on her tummy became infected causing fever and need for meds.
Who was the first to notice she wasn't well?

Her beau, Roscoe P. Coltrane.

{By the way, Reba is ALL better now, and back to her bossy self:}

Hound dog Thursday

22 years of Indian Paint Brushes

Every April 11th, for our wedding anniversary, my sweetie picks me my favorite wildflower.
One bloom for each year.
Hubby teased that he is working his way toward two dozen.
They don't last long in the vase, but they are SO pretty!!
Happy 22nd Anniversary sweet heart!!

Blooming Tuesday

Cuteness Runamuck: Chewy Monster

~Grandboy Jeremiah is SIX months old!!~

Son-Day: "Unclouded Day"

Unclouded Day

O they tell me of a home far beyond the skies
O they tell me of a home far away
O they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise
O they tell me of an unclouded day.

O the land of cloudless day

O the land of an unclouded day

O they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise

O they tell me of an unclouded day.

O they tell me of a home where my friends have gone
O they tell me of that land far away
Where the tree of life in eternal bloom
Sheds its fragrance through the unclouded day.

O the land of cloudless day

O the land of an unclouded day

O they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise

O they tell me of an unclouded day.

O they tell me of a King in His beauty there
And they tell me that mine eyes shall behold
Where He sits on the throne that is whiter than snow
In the city that is made of gold.

O the land of cloudless day

O the land of an unclouded day

O they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise

O they tell me of an unclouded day.

O they tell me that He smiles on His children there
And His smile drives their sorrows all away
And they tell me that no tears ever come again
In that lovely land of unclouded day.

O the land of cloudless day

O the land of an unclouded day

O they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise

O they tell me of an unclouded day.

~God Bless~

Josiah K Allwood was born 7/15/1828, Harrison County, Ohio. He was a circuit riding preacher for the United Brethren in Christ. About 1890 Allwood is said to have been returning home on a clear moonlit night when he wrote the words and composed the melody to the song “O They Tell Me of a Home Far Beyond the Skies.” He died 1/13/1909, at Mo­ren­ci, Mi­chi­gan.

Fertilizer Friday: Spring Promise

Last Saturday, I had three of my grandbabies, and the two oldest kids I babysit.
Its warm enough now to plant flower seeds outside, but I really like my little loves seeing the miracle of growth.

First we "fluffed up" the peat pots (fun fun fun), then planted: four 'o clocks, sunflowers, different types of zinnias, marigolds, balsam, and 'bunny tails' or better know as bachelor buttons.

Less than a week some are already coming up.

(Rebecca, Kaylie, David, LauraJune)

I'm filling in the empty spots with these easy annuals. My five and four year old darlings I babysit remember doing this with me before. That's what its all about, seeing and remembering. We WILL do this every year.

Thank you God for the miracle of growth, and my eyes to see, and my little ones to share with!!

Fertilizer Friday