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Wishing the King a happy birthday today!

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Compassion is a very healthy and reliable variety of climbing rose. Its well-shaped hybrid tea flowers are light pink, tinted with coral-pink, and have a lovely, strong, sweet fragrance. The growth is strong, stiff, and bushy with plentiful dark green foliage. Harkness, 1973. Photo from grower.

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Parfuma® Summer Romance produces deep pink blooms with a strong anise-apple scent mixed with spicy, rose fragrance. Blossoms are fully cupped and quartered, with blooms produced in flushes throughout the season. Photo by Gwen West

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Blue for You is a lovely, compact, upright bush with mauve to lilac colored blooms that age to purple-tinted slate blue. She has a pleasant fragrance and offers a lengthy, repeating bloom period between spring and fall. Photo by Amy Eli

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Lavender Lace is a great miniature that will bloom like crazy in the spring. It is the perfect small addition to any garden or a great option for a pot. This rose will provide a moderate fragrance and gorgeous lavender bloom. The vintage appearance of these lavender clusters are just beautiful.

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I am devastated by the loss of Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in a horrifying act of violence. Our prayers are with their children and all who loved them, and with State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, who were also targeted.

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Jude the Obscure a very free-flowering rose, bearing large, incurved, chalice-shaped flowers. The petals are medium yellow on the inside and pale yellow on the outside. Its outstanding fragrance is extremely strong with a delicious fruity note reminiscent of guava and sweet white wine. By C. Garces

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A celebration of Mother This extra-fancy dinnerplate dahlia produces enormous 10" blooms, each with its own dizzying combination of patterns. Hot pink stripes, splashes and freckles decorate each petal, so no two blossoms are alike. Taiheijo will be a stunning addition to your arrangements.

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BraveryTall Bearded Iris: An attention-getting blue neglecta with a black overlay on the velvety blue-purple falls. Ravishing blue-white standards are reflected in the defining band around the falls. This early bloomer has tangerine beards and lots of ruffles.

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The Lady Slippers Orchid This is the state of Minnesota flower. May it honor the lives lost to an unspeakable act as well as those who fight for their lives this day and their families and loved ones.

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This Enchanted Peace Rose must be getting some fantastic fertilizer as its colors are electric! Its fragrance is very aromatic and can not go unnoticed. Perhaps it's feeling some peaceful energy from its constituents!

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Bronzy pink outer petals stretch to reveal a gorgeous golden center, all hues blending together into a nice, soft tone. As a grandiflora, it'll produce 3-4 of these nice large flowers in a cluster. They'll be accompanied by a moderate fruit fragrance, State of Grace is an unforgettable rose.

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Better Times® Eleganza® is a hybrid tea rose that produces very large, double blooms with a cupped form. The colour variation can be large and sometimes leaving you wondering… “Is this the same rose?

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Rose of Hope Sturdy shrub with beautiful, medium-sized, salmon-pink flowers that fade to cream. They are fragrant, double and show their stamens. Remarkable are the large clusters that spread out well and so quickly create new bouquets.

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Peace steals the show. Her golden, primrose-yellow petals with soft, rose-pink shadings emit an intense scent. Own-root roses ensure this strong, continually blooming bush with large,

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See Rose in Rosé Dense bushy growing and very floriferous Persica hybrid with prominent reddish eye in slightly double, soft pink, cupped blooms with white reverse. Busy regrowth even without deadheading.

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From the soft pink color to the sweet fragrance, Our Lady of Guadalupe, a floribunda rose, produces generous clusters of 3-inch silver-tinged blooms featuring layers of ruffled, whorled petals. Opening from pointed buds, the high-centered blooms contain as many as 25 petals.

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Lady Emma Hamilton Dark red buds with dashes of orange, open to chalice-shaped blooms of rich tangerine orange, with yellow-orange on the outside of the petals. The flowers have a strong, delicious, fruity fragrance with hints of pear, grape and citrus fruits.

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Sending a Lucky Iris your way.. white, wide mid orchid plicata band and stripe up rib; style arms pale silvery pink edge, mid orchid ridge and crest; F. white, wide mid orchid plicata band and haft, haft veined dark purple; beard hairs based white, tips blue-violet; slight musky fragrance

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This compact Pink Flamingo Grandiflora packs a punch in the color department with non-fading tones of deep pink tinged with salmon. Grown primarily as a container plant or small garden rose.

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Ancient Mariner an impressive variety, bearing masses of large, many petalled blooms on a bushy, quite upright shrub. The blooms are a lovely glowing mid pink at the center, paling towards the edges. Over time, they each reveal a cluster of golden stamens. There is a medium-strong myrrh fragrance.

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Gertrude Jeykll is always one of the first English Roses to start flowering, its perfect scrolled buds open to large, rosette-shaped flowers of bright glowing pink. The beautiful, perfectly balanced Old Rose scent is often described as being the quintessential Old Rose fragrance.

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Spreading kindness like confetti

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The glow of Gabriel Oak in any light I'd undeniably attractive. By Bailey They are a striking shade of deep pink, the outer petals of each bloom paling slightly over time. The beauty of the blooms is enhanced by a wonderful, strong fruity fragrance.

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Summer song by Miumiu Lily. Vibrant blooms of an unusual orange-red colour. They open to full, medium-large cups, with many inner petals arranged rather informally within a perfect ring of outer petals. There is a lovely mixed scent with hints of chrysanthemum leaves, ripe bananas and Tea.

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Coral sunset peony!

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It takes the delicate touch of Supriya Raghuthman to capture the attractive, neatly formed, medium-sized rosettes in shades of glowing apricot. There is a strong, delightfully fresh fragrance in the Tea Rose tradition, developing a cool lemon character as the flowers develop.

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The ever breathtaking Desdemona captured here exquisitely by Supriya Raghuthman in the UK. I can only imagine the old rose fragrance has hints of almond blossom, cucumber, and lemon zest.

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Summer Lilac Bush aka Butterfly Bush is finally in bloom at my apartment complex 🌱😊💜 Saw a few bees today. Soon it will be covered with bees 🐝, butterflies 🦋, moths, and Hummingbird Moths! I love this bush!

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This classic hybrid tea rose introduced in 1960 is a very popular choice with its beautiful coral blooms that are well suited for cutting; they bloom continuously or in flushes throughout the growing season and have a very noticable fruity fragrance. Photo from Vanessa Millington

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Peonies symbolize honor and respect, making them a thoughtful gift for various occasions, including graduations and engagements. I love the fuzzy pink center it adds to its whimsical and playful appearance.

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Cresto Cream Zinnia Seeds produce elegant, fully double blooms in a soft, buttery cream that instantly adds sophistication to gardens and bouquets. The dense, dome-shaped flowers stand tall on strong stems, making them ideal for cutting and adding to floral arrangements. Grower photo.

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Crown Princess Margareta including her stunning, on-trend, apricot orange color blending which is a rare color for a David Austin Rose. She features vigorous, arching growth and the versatility to be grown as a short climber. Her blooms are very fragrant with a delicious, fruity fragrance. By Muller

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First blooms today in my garden of Red Drift® Rose (Rosa 'Meigalpio'). It produces many flushes of petite flowers that blaze scarlet red all season long. You'll be enjoying brilliant blooms from late spring all the way through the first frost!

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