Rose Day at May Dreams Gardens

Welcome to Rose Day at May Dreams Gardens.

Following the tradition of the Plant Doctor, Cynthia Westcott, I am showing you my roses on the second Sunday of June.

Westcott was a plant pathologist who made her living partly by tending to other people's rose gardens.  She also started a tradition of opening up her gardens in New Jersey on the second Sunday of June to show neighbors and others (

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In a far corner of my garden, tucked behind a spruce tree, an old pink rose grows rampantly. I give it little attention and mostly forget about it until I see it blooming with abandon in early summer.

I got the rose from my aunt, not once, but twice.

The first time she gave me a start of the rose, she said it was  from my great-grandmother's garden. I planted it in my first garden, happy to