Not exactly a rose garden

Love of roses is genetic I think.  My mother had a huge rose garden that produced dozens of sweet smelling blooms of assorted colors, and my sisters have beautiful roses in their yards in California as well.  Over the last 25 years a sturdy few hybrid tea roses have survived the Minnesota winters and done quite well in my front yard, but this year, cold June weather stifled growth, intense July heat dehydrated everything, and the the August plague of cursed Japanese beetles munched up whatever flowers were produced, so there weren't enough roses to even fill a bud vase.  Finally after a month long rest from the heat and the beetles, the rose bushes produced a bouquet of large fragrant blooms this week.


Too bad you can't send fragrance over the web...