Roses at the Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame, Alice Springs

These blooms were at the Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame in Alice Springs when I visited in August, 2015.

Neglected Roses

My daughter does not like the roses in her garden - they have survived abject neglect for many years but still throw up some amazing blooms from time to time.

On the bud in the bottom picture you can see the infestation of bugs.

Sometimes plants don't mind neglect.

Roses and Creepers

These photos I took yesterday. Walking along the streets of Jeonju South Korea, I saw this wonderful creeper on a wall. Later I walked past the roses. They seem to have appeared out of nowhere and there are many blooming around the place.

I had thought of creeping out at night with a pair of scissors to "claim" one for me, but the students gave me some flowers.

Roses in Korea

My flowers given to me for Teacher's Day, Jeonju, Korea, May 2009.

The Rose Garden

The miniature roses.

The rose garden (April and May)

When we came to Shaoxing at the end of February, the area had experienced a cold winter, and it had snowed here. One of the gardens near the apartment building that houses many of the foreign teachers, there was a garden that seemed to have a large number of dried sticks about 5 inches high in it. On closer inspection you could see it was a bed of roses.

I don't think in Australia we would have pruned them back so much - but things are different here.

The top photo was taken on April 17 th, as foliage was beginning to sprout on the plants. The second photo was taken just last week.

What a difference a few weeks makes in such a garden. Also on the school campus is an area near one of the other buildings where there is a bed of what I now discover is miniature roses and they too are in full bloom right now.