I fretted away the away time, wondering repeatedly if I'd missed my yellow rose beginnings, but came back to a fully blooming bush as pictured here. Something finally is going well in the garden.
But wait, there's more. For the first time ever, after several attempts, I have overwintered an 'Austrian Copper' to see a bloom. Situated in a special spot where I can watch it, with better drainage than I've given it before, and I, at last, have a healthy bush with the promise of future bounty. There are not many blooms this year, but I'll take a healthy young bush any day.Any...way....the garden seems to be moving in fits and starts, but at least something is blooming. And getting green. And we've had several inches of rain now so perhaps, just perhaps the worst is past. The main peonies are to start soon and, warm weather permitting, I'll get the dead wood pruned out of the roses and get the repeat bloomers in a better mood to fight it out with the Japanese Beetles that will come in mid-June!