Gertrude Jekyll, the first rose, not just the first flower, of the new year here at Edgehill Herb Farm. January 1, 2021, Vista, California. 📸 photo credit: Karen England, iPhone XS, no filter.
Today, I am moving this daily floral exercise from Instagram to my blog and will share it from here to all my social media.
Doing this helps me accomplish two major things this year… 1. To blog first every day before any other postings and 2. To find a blooming plant in my garden every day to share.
Photographing just one flower is all it takes to get me outside in the morning and open my mind to how much there is to see in any season, on any given day. I have two acres and I live in a gardener’s paradise where roses bloom in December. I want to record this floral wealth daily with intention and become even more grateful than I already am. To not take for granted my great weather, my wonderful property or my flowering plants.
Truth in advertising, this photo of my Eden Climber is from 1-1-211-1-211-2-21I say this is a highly fragrant rose but Edmunds Roses disagrees, saying the fragrance is slight. What do you say?Eden Climber, according to https://www.edmundsroses.com was voted the “World’s Best Rose” in 2006 by the World Federation of Rose Societies, Eden is one of the premier roses produced by the renowned House of Meilland in France. The pink and cream blended color of the abundant, English-style, full-formed blooms displayed against dark green glossy foliage has attracted gardeners world-wide. Winter hardy and disease resistant plants are sometimes slow to establish, but will reward the patient gardener with an abundance of repeat bloom.
