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FROZEN ROSES, ICED LEAVES and HOAR FROSTED FLOWERS

Pictured in Reno Nevada - 2000 to 2010. Photographer: Christine

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Snow, Ice and Roses

Some of the most fleeting and beautiful moments in the rose garden come in fall when the roses are lush and perfect. Unbidden, unwanted, a sneaky, rotten, miserable cold front makes an unwelcome visit. After the storm system passes, there are typically three weeks more of mild weather but once encased in snow and ice, the roses are irreparably damaged - bruised and shrunken - with months to wait before healthy blooms return to this Nevada garden.

There is nothing to be done but to get out with the camera before the sun melts the snow, while the blooms sit encased in ice - perfect and colorful, and doomed. The photos on this page are the sad swan song of a garden when fall turns briefly to winter.

First freeze of fall: Blooms encased in ice. 'perfect and colorful, and doomed.'
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Icy Cornelia Rose File# 1375	Hoar frosted Jeri Jennings File# D1672	Iced Abbaye de Cluny rose File# D1381	Snow covered Abbaye de Cluny File# D7823
Iced Day Breaker rose File# D1675	Iced Day Breaker rose File# D1387	Iced Day Breaker rose File# D1389	Iced Autumn Sunset rose File# 1399
Icy Rosenprinzessin File# 1425	Iced Burgundy Iceberg File# D1420	Icy Burgundy Iceberg File# D1687	Icy Marco Polo rose File# D1383
Icy Fragrant Plum Rose File# 1684	Hoar frost on leaves File# D1720	Hoar frost on leaves File# D1713	Hoar frost on leaves File# D1707