One of the marvellous things about gardening is the variety of pleasant things that develop as a result of your work, again and again, while you are off doing other things (like your day job). It’s a bit like teaching, in a way: You do your best and hope that one day the results blossom in both the near and distant future…
I stepped out on Saturday morning to see that there were about ten fully opened roses had burst forth. They were not there when I’d last looked some days earlier. I noticed early last week that all of the rose bushes (which I’d cut back some months ago for Winter) are covered in buds about to bloom, almost ll of a sudden (it seemed), and they started doing so in earnest on Saturday. You’re seeing a shot of one of a large pink cluster of large roses (about the size of the double fist you could make by putting two hands together and interlacing my fingers… but then I have largish hands…)
Plenty more to come. I see buds for some of my other favourites that I’ve shown you before, each one quite individual (see some related posts below, and/or search in the archives under gardening or flowers). It never gets old for me, seeing these each cycle.
-cvj
It really is a lovely time of year. love the photo…
Here in Michigan, we had a week of summer, followed by two weeks of very cold winter. The flowers blossomed, and died.
Here in NJ, the roses’ leaf buds are just beginning to swell after the winter, and over there in CA, you have such gorgeous roses!