It is that time again Rose lovers! We are preparing our Promise Gardens for the 2022 Rose & Garden Show! It’s a our favorite time of the year as we await those incredible blooms that are the showplace of the Promise Gardens and dear to our hearts! This year we will add new editions of the 2022 season to all of our rose gardens and look forward to their beautiful display in June and the summer months. Happy Spring rose gardening! -Promise Gardens
Painting the Garden…It’s All About the Flowers
Update! This summer has been beautiful with every color of the rainbow and what a great place to be during this Covid-19 season! It’s is always difficult with confinement of any kind but the ability to spend time in your garden catching up on overdue chores has been a true blessing! There is nothing like being in the gardens!
Flowers and color, where would we be without them in the garden? We have the lovely greens of grass, trees and leafy plants and the varied blues of the sky as our backdrop so each year for the Promise Gardens Rose & Flower Show, we have every color/hue imaginable on display. In our container gardening areas and special beds, we mix it up each year with new color combinations and plants to create “awesome eye-candy” for our visitors, friends, family and of course, our photography. This is a special treat for me as a designer deciding what “new” and “old” creations I can design for a visual and aromatic feast.
A friend recently shared that their favorite part of visiting Promise Gardens was “just as I enter the gate area, the aroma of roses and flowers entice me in and then my eyes just take it all in and I swear each time I will recreate this myself at home so I can see and smell it all day long.” Well, that is also one of my favorite things too!
Are you painting your garden? “I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”__Claude Monet
The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God’s heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
~Dorothy Frances Gurney, “Garden Thoughts”
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Gardening Friends! It is another year of amazing beauty breaking forth in our Promise Gardens of Winchester. This year’s growth is totally amazing and we are excited for the new blooms, our Rose & Flower Show and new and mysterious plantings for 2020. Visit again soon and Happy Gardening 2020 to you!
Happy Rose Gardening!
It’s March 21 and time again as we prepare for our Rose & Garden Show 2020. We are adding to the Rose Gardens this year with new beautiful selections, additional rose gardens and more. Here are a few favorites from our past shows.
In our eyes, nothing is more beautiful than the blooms of roses and peonies…our favorites! So then, a few rose delights for the eyes and thoughts for the heart!
A White Rose
THE red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.
But I send you a cream-white rosebud
With a flush on its petal tips;
For the love that is purest and sweetest
Has a kiss of desire on the lips.
John Boyle O’Reilly. 1844–1890
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Another Year! Beautiful new additions to the @PromiseGardens. This post bears repeating! We are excited for the gardening season as we see spring bulbs popping out of the ground and buds on flowering trees. These colors are wonderful and helpful as we create the color for our design this year in our annuals and container gardening. We like the pinks, purples, whites with various hues of light green for this year’s plan. Looking at images of flowers, strolling through garden centers and perusing flower catalogs are a great way to create your spring garden palette.
Promise Gardens of Winchester 