Coming Up Roses

I hadn’t planned to get into the gardening just yet…
Yesterday I looked out the kitchen window. We have two rose bushes in the back corner garden, but they’ve been let go and were looking straggly. I had thought they were possibly dying – most of the branches were dry and brown, and there were hardly any leaves. It’s apparently a bit late for pruning, although I was going to do it anyway…sometime.
Yesterday, when I looked out the kitchen window, I saw a beautiful pale pink rose, dancing above the dry sticks and brown foliage, waving over the height of the back fence and into the bright sky.
And I hadn’t even noticed a bud!

Here it is!
🙂

As I was already down there, it seemed like the best time to prune.
The bigger bush would have been something around 6-7 foot tall, so I took a lot off that one.
Of course, I had the pruners out, so it just made sense to take down the overgrowth on the geranium near the house. There were a few florets on the branches I chopped off, so I now have a bit of a flower display.