Surprise flowers

We have white Lady Banks! The plants were supposed to all be yellow. We were so surprised to see these beautiful white flowers. I love the roses. I have plans to increase my rose collection over the years. The double knock out have been so far worth their cost. The one in the picture gets more sun than the other one right now but as we move into the summer the sun will move enough that the other rose will look really good as well. They are getting better established.

We have some volunteer green beans. If they were bush beans, I would be more excited. I have about 4 or 5 pole bean sprouts but they aren't in a position to be trellised. I am going to leave them for a little while to see what happens. Apparently when you totally neglect the garden for several months and all the beans dry and fall to the ground, the garden still blesses me and doesn't give up. What a lesson in perserverance. My garden is not hte most hospitable place in the world. It is usually too dry, overgrown and generally untended. Yet it still brings me a great deal of hope as these plants work hard and be fruitful despite my not so green thumb.