Are They Wild ?
Twenty-three years ago when we first arrived on this place, the plot of ground which was the original garden spot was over-grown with grass and weeds, so the thing we thought had to be done was to start digging. When it was ready to plant some seeds there were two things that were left in the garden that we did not dig out.
Two tiny rose bushes were growing in such strategic places you would think that someone planted them in the midst of all the weeds and grass.
But they were so small that they could have even grown from a flying seed in the wind or maybe a bird dropped a rose hip. Whatever the case may be we do not know. So there they were and as they grew from year to year they had the most fragrant lush pink flowers. They like to push their roots through the ground just as the trumpet vine and the raspberries do and then pop up through the ground to grow a new rose bush. One of these shoots was moved to the side of the garden next to some berry vines where there was a trellis for them to grow on. The trellis has been gone now for some time after getting too old to look nice any more, but the rose bush and the berries are still there.
These roses reminds us of Jesus the Rose Of Sharon because of His fragrance of love filling the whole earth.
This rose plant was given to us not long after we came to live here and it grew in the circle flowerbed for quite some time and then we moved it to the hill near the grape vine.
A couple of years ago a man came and brought us a red rose plant especially for our anniversary so this rose we planted by the steps and reminds us of his thoughtfulness.
