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07.06.14 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Instagram Walk

2014 + Garden Roses

I took a walk in the garden yesterday and shot some photos in the Instagram app. Most of my peonies are on the wane, but caught a pic or two of them along with some old roses. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Visit Ilona’s Garden Journal on facebook: Click here © 2014 written for Ilona’s Garden Journal…

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28.05.14 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Blooming In The Garden

Garden photos + Garden Roses

Finally. Cold weather disappeared and things are blooming. Therese Bugnet I cut these roses down to the ground last fall due to dieback. They are sprouting up and blooming. Rugosa roses are usually very resistant to rose ailments. Except for being a bit chlorotic due to the uneven moisture levels this year, they are doing…

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20.06.13 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Where Should I Plant This Rose?

Day in the life + Garden Roses + June

I know many of you have done this, too, so I don’t feel quite so guilty. So many times I know better, but I can’t resist nature, not of plants or my own at times. We are past the season of planting roses… the heat of summer is coming, but a beautiful rose plant was…

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06.08.09 | Ilona Erwin | 6 Comments

Whetstone Park of Roses

Garden Roses

This park is included in my top 10 garden destinations for the Central Ohio area with good reason. Why? Take a look at the collages and let me tell you the story. My parents took me to this park when I was a little child more than fifty years ago now, and in a way,…

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28.06.09 | Ilona Erwin | 8 Comments

Winding up the Month of June

2009 + June + recipes + summer

The GGW contest for rose photos has announced the winners, and they are truly beautiful shots of a flower that is so beloved that there are millions of photographs taken of it, in all its glory and variation. Sample a few. No, I didn’t win anything… but I gained more than enough from the inspiration…

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15.01.09 | Ilona Erwin | 5 Comments

Depressing Exercise: Count the Roses You Killed

2009 + do as I say + Garden Roses

Most of them died due to freak climate smackdowns, but still. I changed my gardening practices a few years after moving to this windy prairie environment, and I have some crazy holdouts in my garden… if I grow a rose here it will survive just about anything. But loving roses, I tried valiantly for years…

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