When do roses bloom?

When do roses bloom?   In my part of the world, they usually bloom in late April/early summer, fade in the middle of summer, and after pruning they bloom again from early fall to frost.

 Ryosen-ji Rose Garden in May

 



 my garden, May to June

In the middle of august when I stopped by Umami Hill Park,  I was so amazed to find roses blooming vibrantly in spite of the scorching heat.  They seem to have been taken care very well and have bloomed constantly since late spring one after another.

Umami Hill Park in august

During high summer,  my garden was in a miserable state due to intense heat, occasional downpouring, and its owner without a green thumb.  Two weeks ago when the prolonged influence of the typhoon No. 12 was over, I found a very tiny rose blooming in the cool and crisp morning air.  

In the same morning, I learned the number of people killed or made missing by the typhoon exceeded 100.  Somehow, I remembered this song.

The Rose

- Bette Midler -

Some say love, it is a river

That drowns the tender reed

Some say love, it is a razor

That leaves your soul to bleed

Some say love, it is a hunger

An endless aching need

I say love, it is a flower

And you, its only seed

It's the heart, afraid of breaking

That never learns to dance

It's the dream, afraid of waking

That never takes the chance

It's the one who won't be taken

Who cannot seem to give

And the soul, afraid of dying

That never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely

And the road has been too long

And you think that love is only

for the lucky and the strong

Just remember in the winter

Far beneath the bitter snow

Lies the seed

That with the sun's love, in the spring

Becomes the rose

Another typhoon is approaching and raising fears of further landslides and flash flooding in Kii Peninsula (southern Nara pref. and Wakayama pref.) where was  already heavily damaged by the previous typhoon.

This year record disasters have happened one after another, not only in Japan but also around the world.  Wish no more disasters and hope for the recovery as soon as possible. 

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