A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. ~The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams
The arbor is covered in pink roses right now and I am so delighted! Last year I thought my antique climber, Cecile Brunner, was dead and gone. We had a hard winter, and in June the roses refused to bloom and were were brown and dead looking. I grieved, and then cut it back all the way to the ground and was planning on digging the roots up at a later time. I was surprised to then see signs of life and growth, so I have been coddling it and tying the climbing vines over the sides and top of the arbor.
The roses are a nice old fashioned welcome for the first two weeks in June. They just bloom one time a year, but they put on a fabulous show when they are blooming. Lately I call the roses Lazarus because they were raised from the dead. They still aren’t as full as in previous years, but I think by next spring they will once again have a traffic stopping pink show.
The irises are blooming in the garden right now too. Just a little bit of purple standing lovely and proud against the garden fence.
The window box was planted a few weeks ago with petunias. I know a lot of people don’t like them, (people can be such flower snobs! ) but I plant them every year in my containers. They are easy, and I buy them in bulk and save my money for the perennials that I grow in the garden. They will hang over the sides and become lovely as the warm summer weather creeps upon us. 
I am off next week, and I have a garden filled with not only flowers, but weeds. Hopefully the rain will stop falling on my roses and I will find myself spending delightful hours in the early June sunshine working and listening closely as the roses speak.
What is blooming right now in your neighborhood?
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