Roses and lavender

Knock Out Rose

My rose bush has a beautiful creamy yellow bloom on it!

It's a new rose bush that I bought last year and it wasn't looking very promising. I wasn't sure it was going to bloom, but it did. And it has more buds coming. I am quite happy because I would like to grow more and more roses in the garden.

And......my lavender plant has loads of blooms and it smells sooooo good.

Just wanted to show you some blooms in my garden.

Fall planting

Today was the perfect day to do some fall planting. I was at the garden center and picked up some mums, ornamental cabbages and a rose bush.

My little helpers are always nearby.

I like to buy ornamental cabbages in the fall and these will go in my window boxes. Love that purple color.

This Knock Out Rose was only $5.00, hard to pass up. It's a pretty creamy yellow and I thought it would look great in the front of the house. You can't go wrong with a Knock Out Rose.

I planted one of the yellow mums out by the garden....

and the other one by the back door.

The creamy yellow Knock Out Rose looks perfect beside the Virginia Sweetspire (one of my most favorite shrubs).

The window boxes, as you can see, are still blooming with summer color so I will wait to plant the ornamental cabbages.

There are still a lot of summer blooms to enjoy, and now some fall ones too.

Hope you're enjoying this beautiful time of year!