They came in all colors...red, pink, white, orange (?)
We couldn't get as close to the roses as we wanted to - I had to zoom in as far as my camera would let me in order to get the above pictures. We were separated from the flowers by a stretch of tilled ground...
and by an irrigation trough.
This is the head of the irrigation trough - a supersized faucet that spills the water into the trough where it somehow manages to keep the fields watered. I have no knowledge of how the water gets from the trough to the flowers. This irrigation system is nothing like anything I've seen in Alberta, which relies heavily on irrigation for it's wheat and corn crops. There's more than one system I guess. Anyway, this one looked cool.
Hope you all have a good weekend.
5 comments:
I LOVE roses. Fire and Ice are my favorites. Or salmon colored ones. I have never seen fields and fields of roses. They look beautiful. Must smell intoxicating. You may not have been able to get as close as you would have liked, but to get as close as you did was a gift. Interesting about the irrigation system too. Gosh where I live is so-ooo boring.
What a wonderful sight! If I were you, I'd have located the operations centre (offices, farm house, whatever!) and politely knocked, introduced myself and asked for permission to be allowed to walk in amongst those beauties. Can you imagine the fragrance when up close? My own fingers would have been itching to pick a few to put in a vase at home :)
Such beauty to behold!
I agree the sight of all those roses is a beauty to behold. I wonder if they resell them? Irrigation systems like that are a blessing making things grow where they wouldn't otherwise.
Okay, I'm going to probably get some of this wrong, but here's my understanding of the rose fields. They grow the roses for the bushes not the blossoms. And the irrigation ditch would have "tubes" in it if they were watering that field. They use the hard plastic tube to siphon the water from the ditch. It's quite an art when done correctly. One end is placed in the water while the person covers the other end with their hand. They then pump the end in the water a couple of times and drop the "tube" (I'm sure this isn't the right word) If they've done it correctly, water travels from the ditch, through the tube into the field. I love the rose fields.
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