Just Our Pictures of Rose Gardens, Garden pictures with commentary from Regina's garden Reno Nevada.

3:10 p.m. 25/06/2008 Just Our Pictures of Rose Gardens, Garden pictures with commentary from Regina's garden Reno Nevada.

Regina's Desert Rose Garden Reno Nevada

Regina's Reno rose garden is a fair example of what is likely when rosarian fever becomes incurable. The house she purchased in the mid-1980s came set in a half acre of hard packed Nevada clay. By 1990 the process of turning a weed lot into a garden was well underway. The first roses planted there were purchased from the supermarket in body bags - strangely enough, they survived and flourished. Since roses liked it there, that is what she decided to plant. Thus began the development of what is now an extensive rose garden.

Garden 2008, John Cabot pics and article from Regina

Years of pulling and piling the weeds, and amending the impossibly hard native clay (every last peanut shell is recycled), has made the improbable possible. A lush display of modern roses and huge David Austin roses, has emerged from the harsh desert dust. The undeveloped half acre below was later acquired and the garden expanded. The garden now includes a growing collection of Hybrid Musks and Hybrid Perpetuals, and a sprinkling of ramblers and other OGRs. Teas have uniformly died, so Regina has now moved on to - as she puts it -"killing Chinas."

Planting with color compatibility as the focus is the crux of gardening Regina style, and areas of her garden have evocative names such as 'Ribbon of Lavender'.

I'm in the process of eking out commentary from Regina, picture by picture, to complement these pictures of her lovely garden. From the top you'll find those already penned in her inimitable style. Click the thumbnails to expand the picture and read commentary from this intrepid gardener.

Rows of pastel rose bushes 07 #7610	Priscilla Burton Bush with commentary	Tiffany with Cecile Brunner -S-	William Baffin multi pics and comment
Dainty Bess bush in garden	Rose bushes on the rampage 2006	Roses through gazebo	Blueberry Hill multi pics and comment

Clematis framing roses on gazebo #4007	Lace Cascade and Singin' in the Rain	Melody Parfumee Bush	America bush and more in Barbeque Tce garden area
Regina's patch 2005 ~R~	from Regina's garden 2003 #C3666 -R-	from Regina's garden 2003 #C3813 -R-	from Regina's garden 2003 #C3570 -R-
from Regina's garden 2003 #C3796 -R-	from Regina's garden 2003 #C3820 -R-	from Regina's Garden 2002 #D4795 -S-	from Regina's garden 2002 #D8914 -S-
from Regina's garden 2003 #C3818 -R-	from Regina's garden 2003 #C3807 -R-	Bill Warriner rose bush -R-	Bonica bush -R-
Captain Hayward	English Garden shrub ~R~	Europeana with coreopsis -S- -	Evelyn bush with Easy Going to the left ~S~
Gold Medal & daylilies -R-	Heirloom with larkspur	Just Joey with gaura ~R~	Opening Night and others -R-
Othello and companions with New Dawn on the garden Arch	Paul Shirvelle bush and other roses & hollyhocks ~R~	Lavender Parade with calendula and scabiosa -S-	Teasing Georgia &Eyepaint -R-
Three BIG Bushes l to r Excitement,Singin' in the Rain,Graham Thomas -R-	The Pilgrim -R-	Yellow Doll bush -S-	New Dawn ~R~
Moonshadow Bush	Iceberg rose bush	Rose Garden 2006	Sally Holmes with commentary and more pics
Escapade rose multi pics and comment	Crowdpleaser plant 06 and a mad mix of others #2921