worshipper

When we moved into a new place last August; we adopted two beautiful rose bushes that had been sorely neglected. I pruned and fertilized and watered them and gave them some prayers and love and this year; I have blooms all over the place!!! Beautiful, dark pink/fushia florabundas...at the end and on both sides of the steps of the deck to the back yard. Like us Christians, we need a good pruning before we really blossom.

Dusty

Good example. Yes God does the pruning and sometimes it is painful and we don't like it,, but it is for our good.

My roses are just starting to bloom so will try to put photos here.

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Love confirms a Christian

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Dusty

Some of the roses in my garden.

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Trials prove a Christian

Love confirms a Christian

But death crowns a Christian

Trishcuit

Uh oh, found a rose thread!
I started my rose collecting two years ago after we lost our son to stillbirth. I went looking for a white rose to grow in his memory and over the winter as I researched which one I wanted (I posted on Gardenweb, asking members for recommendations) and in the process got hopelessly addicted.
I have filled every available place at my parents with roses and had about 10 growing in pots outside my door this spring/summer/fall.
PS the one I chose for him was an antique rose called 'madame hardy'.

Plant: Madame Hardy (damask, Hardy, 1832)