One More Rose

It’s hard to believe it lasted this long. We got a miniature rose plant from the grocery store last fall. My husband took it under his wing. It bloomed for a while, then as always, faded. But it would come back again under his constant care and bloomed a second time. Then winter came and the plant went dormant. It was sitting alongside all of the other plants on the console table. When spring came around my husband started putting the rose on the windowsill where it got even more sunshine. And magically this little plant started budding. And it bloomed again. When those roses faded we cut back the stems as we had done before. During that time we had replaced the plant console with a sideboard in the dining room and dispersed the plants to other parts of the house. Since the rose wasn’t doing much of anything we thought perhaps it might enjoy being outside on the balcony. And that’s where it’s been for the last several weeks. Suddenly one solo bud appeared and has since bloomed into a lovely pink blossom. Only one of the four stems materialized in to a bud. That only goes to show you that when something is cared for as much as this plant was wonderful things can happen. I’m not sure what the future holds for this fragile specimen. Time will tell.