Roses already?!

I just couldn't believe it when I saw them last night. It's not even Memorial Day yet, and there are roses beginning to bloom in my garden!

I was sitting at the kitchen table when I glanced out the back door and saw a flash of red. I thought about it, then grabbed the camera. (The first bloom pictured is on an antique tea rose, the second is the red climber that I saw from the kitchen.)

Then I checked some of the others - the yellow climber will probably bloom by the Monday holiday, the other tea roses within days of that, and the hedge roses? I'm not even going to guess.

The usual Memorial Day bloomers have all but faded - an early bloom because of the mild winter, they tell me - but roses in May?

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