May has been a spectacular month here in the Bay Area for our gardens. The weather has been a perfect spring like temperatures and the gardens are just loving it. Flowers are blooming everywhere; it’s practically flower overload! Roses are especially loving our cool temperatures. Here is a look at my marvelous May garden featuring roses in bloom.
Roses, roses, roses.
It is definitely rose season here in May. Roses have been putting on a spectacular show and I can’t stop taking pictures of these glorious flowers.
Close up shots of a few roses
Miniature roses in bloom
Cut roses ready for a few bouquets 💐💐💐
It may seem that all I have blooming are roses right now but my garden is bursting with so much more, each flowering plant more beautiful than the next. Plants such as astromeria, bearded iris, geraniums, carnations (dianthus), dahlias, begonias and even amaryllis and more freesias! May in the garden has been marvelous!
Feast for the eyes! Looks absolutely gorgeous.
Thanks!
Your garden is magnificient Kalpana!!!! Enjoy your long holiday! Tracy
Thanks Tracy!!
Ours are doing well too, even in the partial shade. They are on finishing their second phase. I am not so keen on the carpet roses. They are a bit too cheap for me, and I do not know how to work with them. I can not get used to the idea of just shearing them.
I like carpet roses for areas of my garden where I can’t easily ge to to prune them. They are pretty though in their own way.
Ours are very pretty as well, and they suit their situation very well. I just dislike them because they are trendy carpet roses.
This is REALLY impressive. I am not good with roses. In NC the most be sprayed for black spot each week. Yours look perfectly healthy.
Thank you ! Ross love our dry mild weather. Warm in the day with a cool ocean breeze and cool at nigth and very little humidity – roses love this type of weather. I have noticed when the weather is more humid and warm I too get the black spot and have to spray.
My roses in NC are so needy. I wish I did not have them. One has been in my husband’s family for decades, so I try to keep it healthy. I love how happy yours look.
Unfortunately roses dont like hot and humid climates much and need a lot more care in those conditions. It helps that in our area our days are warm and dry and nights are cool, and mostly our temps rarely get about 80s, we really do have perfect conditions for roses requiring minimal spraying. A family rose that you have for decades? How cool!
Exquisite 😍
Thank you!
Sooo pretty
Thank Swati.
I enjoyed looking at the flowers. They all look fabulous. Thank you.
Thank you Del.
Breathtaking, Kalpana!! Yours is truly a Garden of Eden! Love all your photos!!❤️💐🌹
Thank you so much for your lovely compliment Rose!!! 🌹🌹😊
Garden is indeed bursting with color. It looks fabulous.