Roses Are the Best Medicine

Using flowers to help get through a difficult time

Today , Dave Barkley is sharing some images of beautiful flowers that are helping him and his wife get through a very hard time . They say laughter is the good medication , but I ’m pretty sure rosiness are at least as good .

We inhabit in a townhouse in South Riding , Virginia , just west of Dulles International Airport and east of Middleburg , which is sawhorse country .

This year I started growing roses in two modest raised bed to give my married woman an excited raise . She has metastatic breast cancer , and each day I bring her a rose with her breakfast or lunch .

The picture are of our garden , and the rose wine are from David Austin ’s fragrant collection .

A perfect little bud , full of promise of the fragrant beauty to come in .

A rich ruby-red rose wine , falling open to reveal the bright gold stamen in the heart and soul of the prime .

Layer and layer of golden yellow petals , surrounded by buds foretell more beauty to occur .

A persuasion of the bring up bed rose garden . This is a unspoilt reminder that you do n’t call for acres and demesne to have a garden . Even a little blank can be filled with beautiful pink wine or other flowers .

A candelabrum of white blooms .

A magical shot of finespun petals shading from yellow to skim to white .

This delicate rose has level upon level of delicate petals . David Austin ’s famed rose - breeding political platform has been concentrate on combining the romantic form and plentiful fragrance of old garden roses with the extensive coloring material range and continuous efflorescence of modern variety . The style has been so wildly popular that now other rose breeder are explore similar counsel .

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