What A Beauty

Several years ago Claire Trammell gave me a rooting of a New Dawn rose from her yard. I left it in the pot for the first year and then planted it at the bottom of an arbor we have at my perennial garden the following year. New Dawn is an old fashioned, pale pink, climbing rose that blooms profusely around Mother's Day and then sporadically during the summer and until frost. It's an easy-care rose, unlike hybrid tea roses, and doesn't require much attention. True to the adage "first year they sleep, second they creep, and third they leap" the plant has covered the entire curvature of the arbor. Beautiful! Thanks Claire.