May 18, 2009

A rose by any other name

If only we had smell-a-vision.

I wasn't going to plant roses because they're so conventional, but one rainy day I found myself in the rose section of the nursery, and I caved.

I walked around sniffing every rose before choosing this one. It's a Hybrid Tea Bush Rose - Mr Lincoln.

It was only a bud when I bought it, but the other day it opened and I wasn't disappointed. It has the best fragrance!

It's doing really well in the sand, I can see why people fill their gardens with roses here.

2 comments:

lisbeth said...

OH! nice... its beautiful. I was just complaining the other day when i was at a fruit shop, and they had bunches and bunches of flowers out the front, and i was complaining cause none of the roses smelt! NONE! thats not on... roses should smell like roses! :) hehe

ursulasal said...

Yes, I remember the beautiful roses in the gardens in your neighbourhood. They seem to be thriving in your climate, even in sandy soil!
Hope yours will do just as well and you'll enjoy the lovely scent every day!
I like the colour of it!