Celebrate Summer with the Roses of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens
I don’t know about you, but my garden is exploding in such a glorious way this season! The roses have peaked up here in the northeast, and they were especially fragrant and lush this year.
I have had roses on my mind since my late April trip to Alabama where I visited the beautiful Birmingham Botanical Gardens.
I welcome you to enjoy some pictures of their rose and English gardens there as well as some images from my own garden. I also snapped some photos while out and about here in Chester.
I mixed in some rose related thoughts and wisdom to hopefully create a beautiful arrangement, just for you.
“Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“I don’t know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice.”
Roland A. Browne
“Where, you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett
“If you really screw up, send roses.”
Letitia Baldridge
“Pink isn’t just a color. It’s an attitude.”
Miley Cyrus
“Truth and roses have thorns about them.”
Henry David Thoreau
“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love and Fear. Pick one and Live.”
Axl Rose
“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.”
Louisa May Alcott
“Does anyone have a rose, bud, and thorn they would like to share while we are waiting for dinner?”
My daughter, Melissa
“It is the time you have spent on your rose that makes her so important.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, for winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.”
John Keats
“Come out here where the roses have opened. Let soul and world meet.”
Rumi
“A single rose can be my garden…a single friend, my world.”
Leo Buscaglia
“A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.”
William Carlos Williams
“Love is the softest rose in the soul’s garden.”
Matshona Dhliwayo
“The days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.”
Johnny Mercer
“The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.”
Unknown
“Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed, that with the sun’s love, in the spring, becomes….the Rose.”
Amanda McBroom
Ever in the hunt,
Pattie Jo
