Why Plant a Rose Garden?

Every Mother's Day my father had a continuing tradition of taking us to a beautiful nursery and buying my Mother a new rose bush.

A rose garden is a much more powerful statement of enduring love, than a single rose or a bouquet. Whether it's a memory of mother doting on her bushes as if they were part of her children or the happy coincidence that roses are at the peak of their spring glory in May, there is something about Mother's Day and roses.

A rose plant is an enduring species, it can overcome adversity without much nurturing and yet produce such beauty. A rose bush lives season after season, so in May add a rose bush to your garden for Mothers' Day. Years from now you can go outside in the garden just to remember her.

Roses are nurturing, like all those things mothers are. Mothers are constantly overcoming adversity and not getting a lot of nurturing and always giving something wonderful.

Rose gardens I have planted along my life:
-State Parkway, Chicago home -featured every year for it's beauty on the Dearborn Garden Walk,
-Estate home of an Annapolis Vineyard in Maryland;
-Ocean front court yard and cliffs at Bird Rock in LaJolla, California
-Malibu Lakes, California.

As my mother told me, each time I moved on. "A rose garden is the display of beauty and it's the continuous weaving of life, and what we leave behind."