FLORAL CLIPART

ROSES: PINK

Below are some pictures of the enormous Paul's Himalayan Musk rose in my old garden. When I left it in 2008 its base was bigger around

than my wrist and it had canes that were over 30 feet long. It was cut down and dug up after I moved. In the top picture you can see how

this particular section of it on part of my tunnel bloomed at the same time as the wisteria.

A wider view of the front part of my tunnel. The entire tunnel was removed after I left.

Below is a different section of the musk rose. It looks nearly white in the bright sunshine there, but was really a light pink as shown in the

picture on the right.

This is one of its long canes that grew out from the tunnel into the chestnut tree and hung down, backed by a rhododendron.

Below are a few of the roses (it's 2 pictures stuck together) in the garden I made at the house we moved into when

we first came to Pittsburgh in 1974. That's my daughter Laura there behind the trellis on the left. On the right is only

a small portion of the enormous rose garden I made there. It seems to be my fate that when I move, the next person

in the house doesn't like gardens. It's happened three times. Here I took out lawn and made the rose garden and

when I left the new people took out the rose garden and put in lawn. They took out every bit of every part of the

gardens there. That happened to my garden in Springfield, Virginia and twice here in Pittsburgh.

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