Be mine.. roses.

Happy Valentine's Day!!   

I don't know if you celebrate it but I like to try and convince DH it's a good excuse to take the opportunity to be a little bit romantic.  He is not very enthused but last year I convinced him to buy me my first rose (Pierre de Ronsard) so it's my first Rose-iversary too! Now I think I should get a new rose again today don't you?

I like St Cecilia's pale pink cups they are suitably romantic for today but her foliage is a little bit yuck. She was the first one to show signs of rose mosaic virus. It is very difficult or impossible to find non-virused versions of some roses in Australia. Most of my Austins seem to have it but mostly it doesn't seem to affect them except for making the leaves a little bit ugly.

The bud had a great hole in it munched by a bug but it still looks pretty good.

Funny Middle

Yeah today sucked. Valentine's Day might be ok for people who have nice enthusuastic partners/spouses but mine has been a butthead.

A Summer Shoot

The orange Chinese lantern.

Macro of a pincushion flower.

Ambridge Rose. Another one right down near the graft.

Ambridge Rose

St Cecilia

St Cecilia

St Cecilia

Yellow Button fading to a pale yellow.

The pink calla lily that I thought was smooshed to death has come back and multiplied. :)

The pink Chinese lantern.

Copper daisy in the sun.

What came up where I planted my dahlias... :*(

The front path with Summer Memories rose.

My new lacecap hydrangea. It's my first one. I like it. I hope it doesn't die, it was on sale because it was sunburnt but not as bad as mine are here anyway.

Yay the perennial nemesia is self-seeding! At least something good sprang up with all the weeds down the side of the house.