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<\/center>My very excellent aunt gifted me with an angelface rose when we moved into our first house.\u00a0 Angelface was my mother’s favorite rose, and thankfully it is also pretty hardy (though I have killed one in the past).\u00a0 I planted it outside the front door next to the wild rose I found growing underneath the weeds.\u00a0 It has since tripled in size and seems really happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My very excellent aunt gifted me with an angelface rose when we moved into our first house.\u00a0 Angelface was my mother’s favorite rose, and thankfully it is also pretty hardy (though I have killed one in the past).\u00a0 I planted it outside the front door next to the wild rose I found growing underneath the… Continue reading Roses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[212,214],"class_list":["post-6023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-gardening","tag-the-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10715,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2023\/07\/27\/spring-garden-round-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":6023,"position":0},"title":"Spring garden round up","author":"leems","date":"July 27, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Sweet shrub Rain lilies Flame lily Young pineapples Tibouchina Peace lily & bug-on-you memorial plant Panama rose Plumbago Gardinia aka Nanny Bleeding heart vine Young pineapple Clerodendrum bungei Blue vitex Sweet almond Hibiscus","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230411_182244-113x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230411_182244-113x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230411_182244-113x150.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230411_182244-113x150.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5641,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/01\/16\/they-really-were-camellias\/","url_meta":{"origin":6023,"position":1},"title":"They really were camellias","author":"leems","date":"January 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Part of taking possession of a house, for me, is figuring out where and what everything is.\u00a0 That includes identifying all the plants and trees, and learning how to best care for them. 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