A Rose Is A Rose....Is A Rose....Is A Rose

Earlier this week my wife's rose bush started to
bud flowers for the first time this year... The plant
is almost 20 years old and came with us when we
moved 18 years ago. For the past several years the
flowers have been red with streaks of yellow in them.
This year the blooms are all yellow.... making them
the 'Yellow Roses of Texas'. I did not know that rose
bushes were so hardy. We have had many freezes
over the years and some of our bushes and trees were
lost to the cold temperatures,...but not this rose bush.
My wife is one of those that could put nails in a bucket
of dirt and it would bloom. My grandmother was the very
same way, but not my mother. Poor thing ! If she bought
a plant in a store it was the kiss of death and it would be
dead within days. Indoors or outdoors, she never had
any luck with plants or flowers. The bride can pick some
plant from alongside the road and plant it when we get
home....Whalla!.. Flowers or vegetables!!! Back to the
rose bush,..I told you about the colors for the past few
years, but there have been some years that it simply
budded but never came to bloom. This year's yellow
blooms are out in force and it looks like we will have a
bunch more in the coming days...