in the rose garden~

 Its been a tough year for my roses, first the drought provided no winter rains, they were very stressed this spring, only 1/2 my roses bloomed and small flowers to boot... Our irrigation started in May, time to get them moist for gorgeous spring blooms, i did had a lovely contained flush, but they just weren't flourishing like normal. 

Today we were dead heading and shredding roses, while cleaning up i found a rainbird on the ground, in other words they were still getting no water with a busted line... Which again explains the small flowers, except a for few bushes where there must have been a Yellowstone geyser of water, there I had HUGE BEAUTIFUL BLOOMS!  Hopefully after this hard prune i can get them in good shape for the rest of the summer~