We have an old Peace Rose out on the east 40 that I wasn’t sure was going to make it since it only gets water from the irrigation ditch. I noticed it was really rallying this afternoon. That remote bed, which has Color Magic, three other roses and a Dr. Huey are all rallying the best they can. I bought more soaker hoses this morning, so I cut a lot of dead canes out of the roses, and wrapped a soaker hose around all the roses in the remote bed this afternoon. I stretched a long hose over to them, and gave them a good long soak. We should be seeing a lot more fine roses from that bed as the hot, dray dog, cat, gopher and squirrel days of summer drag on.
When the assassin bug on one of the Peace Roses saw the Bazooka pointing at him, he raised his little bug arms and said “Don’t Shoot!” before I shot him. After his initial shock of staring down the barrel of the Bazooka, he took flight and buzzed me as he flew by.
Off Center & Not Even 
A wise bug 🙂 and your roses are stil in unharmed.
Thanks, Rudi.
Wonderful work and pictures!
Thanks, Leyla.
Poor thing… surrendering to the bazooka! 🤣 Mind you, he has managed to weave his web around, so the roses are grateful to you!
They are happy to get a little more water. Thanks, Marina.
I love the pink edges. Just gorgeous.
Thanks, Shey.
Gorgeous roses and beautifully captured in close-up. Glad to hear the little bug survived to live another day.
Thanks, Lizzie. Assassin bugs are feisty little insects. They are beneficial, but since they are not picky about what the eat, they also get other beneficial insects.
Lovely roses well worth the engineering plan for watering. The assassin bugs are interesting to observe, and a tad bit creepy at times.
The assassin bugs don’t mess around that’s for sure.
Fortunate for them, and for us, they receive such TLC. Beautiful photos, Tim.
I should give all our roses more TLC, but it’s all I can do to keep them watered these days. Thanks, Mary Jo.
I am so pleased that the Peace rose is rallying, Tim.
Peace bees with us. I’m happy with Peace rallying. She’s such a classic rose. Thanks, Rebecca.
They are beautiful! I love your visiting bug. 🙂
Thanks, Lavinia. It was making me feel like a bandit.
Lovely ice-cream colours.
Why it does have ice cream colors. Thanks, Heidi.
The petals’ colours look like peach, strawberry and vanilla ice cream colours to me.
Buahaha! You are such a card. “No, don’t shoot!” And you did 😉
Wonderful that you are able to get water out to these beauties.
Hi Dale. Happy you got a laugh out of it. Poor thing. If it wore pants it probably would have peed them. I was out cutting dead canes out of other rose bushes this afternoon. I was a bloody mess when I came back in the house. Tristan came over and kept asking me if I was going to wash the dried blood off my arms. I told her “at some point”. She kept pestering me with questions like: “doesn’t it bother you to have dried, sticky blood on your arms?” Me: “No! It’s dried and not sticky!” Tristan: “Yes it is!”. It wasn’t sticky and it wasn’t bothering me, but it was really bothering her. I finally wahsed the dried blood off my arms. She said: “You missed your elbow!” Oh brother!
Hi Tim. Yes I did! Poor thing, indeed.
Oh, I know that feeling. Roses are rather unforgiving, aren’t they? Funny how something can be no nevermind to us but disturb another 🙂
One of the reasons I often go around with dried blood on my arms when I’m working outside is if I wash the dried blood off my arms I have to put on a new layer of sunscreen — too much response cost.
Makes perfect sense to me.
Amazing shots!
Thanks, Nancy.
And I always have a giggle or two when I visit… the Don’t Shoot gave me a giggle!
Happy give you a giggle.
Great shots and great shooting of that assassin 😉
Thanks, Teri.
Oh, the roses are spectacular!
Thanks, Gabriela.
My pleasure 🙂
So beautiful! I just returned from the rose garden at Balboa Park, I can certainly get my fix there, but it would be nice to have my own roses to take care of!
Roses are nice to have. Thanks, Tiffany.
Happy you are watering the roses!
What the heck is an assassin bug?
Hi Resa. It’s exactly what the name implies. It assissinates other bugs.
I guess there’s assassinators in every species. Well, in bugs and humans anyway!
Of bugs and men. There are so many things that bug.
Nice flowers – damn raccoon came back and finished off two of my new flowers last night and then apparently I made a bad selection on one new flower this year as rabbits just took them down to nubs – may have to think about roses next year.
The raccoons and rabbits don’t eat our roses, but the porcupines do. Thanks, Brian.
We should all have a peace rose like yours or a camera. My fav is the Just Joey but this is amazing 💖🌷
Thanks, Cindy. I’m happy to share a little Peace with you.
Timothy… you have no idea how much it is appreciated today❣️🌷🌷🌷
Beautiful rose Tim ..I’m sure dad has that in his rose garden 🙂 That bug is a really good size!
Thanks, Julie. Peace is a classic rose. A. bugs are pretty good size.