I'm enjoying listening to Spring is the Only Season by Simon Barnes at the moment, a wonderful tribute to this time of year which is punctuated by his 'Signs of Spring' lists. I don't keep lists but I do like noticing the arrival of the first flowers, birdsong and butterflies. In particular, I wait eagerly for the first of my many roses to bloom.
For the last few years this has been Kew Gardens, a pretty little white rose which flowers right through from late April until the end of the summer. This was its first flower back in April 2024.
As normal, it's got masses of buds this year but ... just as I was waiting for one to flower, I spotted another contender further up the garden.
This one is Lady of Shalott, one of the marmalade coloured roses that I particularly like. Yesterday, a week later than the first rose normally appears, it produced this.
Isn't it beautiful? My daughter has had four different roses in flower for a while now but she lives twenty miles further south than me which makes a difference. How are the roses doing in your garden?
Now I'm on the lookout for the second rose ...
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