YAAAAY
Souvenir de la Malmaison! Herself! In person! In an ex-soggy-wet garden!! This latest hot dry constant-pot-watering spell was worth something after all!!!!* I knew she had a few buds left–having wretchedly deadheaded over a dozen that I’d failed to save–but it always catches me out how quickly later buds can open. Especially in hot weather, of course, but it’s not only wild impatience on the part of the watcher that makes the first buds of the season seem to come out so slowly. I was figuring these would hang on till the next wet fit.
* Although I’d be quite glad if it RAINED again now. But, like, overnight, guys? And then stop? Not the day after day in buckets, are you listening to me here you weather god guys?
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Gorgeous!!!!
Rose as abstract whirlwind of petals?
Yes, she’s very much like that! :)
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Hurray! Hurrah! Wet weather foiled! I’ll imagine the scent, but I love the photos – she’s beautiful. There’s a festival of the rose on at a local national trust garden – Coughton Court, home of one of the Guy Fawkes plotters, so I might go and see if they have some of these beautiful roses you mention, in the petal, with scent to relish.
and this is to cheer you up further –
http://ihasahotdog.com/2007/11/23/my-name-is-inigo-montoya-you-killed-my-father/ – which I think is hilarious, but then I AM slightly warped in the humour department!
and this – since you love baking! http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/06/10/funny-pictures-till-it-fills-the-pan/
LOL!!!!!!
. . . But the second one, good gods, I guess it’s funny, sort of, but put that cat on a DIET.
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I think it must be a doughy sort of cat, because it is SQUARE! How can it fill the corners like that???? Definitely a diet case. What a good thing it didn’t sit in one of those multiple edges baking trays – ow!ow!ow!
They’ll never listen. Lovely, though.
Lovely(: I can see why you like them so much… Just as nice as roses, but with more things to look at.
Um. Sorry. That is a rose. not one of your camellias… (brain fart)
LOL! It happens.
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Why do I keep coming up as anonymous… Hmmm. I must be deleting my cookies… fixed(:
My brain must eat beans some days…
I think I’m going to tell my husband he is very silly to be prejudiced against roses. I’ll show him this picture.
Gorgeous! All frothy and unfurled.
I’m so glad I can come here for a rose fix. My New Dawn climbers were doing very well this season, and the buds had finally started opening with these really lovely old-fashioned looking blooms. Then the storms hit and knocked every one of the petals either off completely or loose enough that when I just touched the stem, they fell off.
I’ve moved them back from the edge of the balcony so that the soil can dry a bit, but that means that the few times the sun DOES come out, it doesn’t reach them, and all the buds are slightly spotty and possibly mildewy and it’s all really depressing.
I’m sorry. And New Dawn’s a lovely rose. If she really lost the lot though, she’ll probably try pretty hard to repeat well.
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So very very beautiful. I’ve never seen a rose like it. My parents have wild looking (because of all the thorns) yellow ones around the house that are very pretty, but Souvenir must be in a class by herself.