Showing posts with label roses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roses. Show all posts

Friday, April 16, 2010

Getting rosy

Discovered this morning that the Rose Garden in Balboa Park is mostly blooming nicely, so stopped to take photos, and ended up with three I liked, all macros, samples of which below:

"Easter Basket" rose

"Chihuly" rose

"Blueberry Hill" rose

While taking the photos, I was amused by the names of the varieties of roses being grown.

In addition to these three, I also saw name plates for the following varieties:
  • Burgundy Iceberg
  • Lovestruck
  • Teeny Bopper
  • Rock 'n' Roll
  • About Face
  • and, the Julia Child rose
Took photos of all of these, but was not happy with the results. There were more roses in the garden, however my camera started showing a low battery warning, so that was that.