I had noticed this bud starting to grow over the last week, but when I went out today to get the mail I found that it had finally “popped!”
Classic form, perfect structure, beautiful color.
The only spot of color in a long row of roses that got cut back for the winter around the first of the year. Give it a couple of weeks, there will be roses of a half dozen different colors up and down the row. (When we find the “forever home,” I need to plant roses like this all along the driveway or by the front porch.)
Not noticed until I was going through the pictures for this post – a little friend hiding in the petals! Click on the image to blow it up to full-sized – can you find them?
Beautiful.