Friday, November 5, 2010

Friday flower


For Friday flower this week I am re-posting an image from earlier in the year. This is one of my roses called Scentimental. It is absolutely one of my all time favourites, for the growing habitat, bushiness, amazing blooms, fragrance and disease resistance. Another reason I love it is because it reminds me of my wonderful old Great Aunty Ila. Ila turns 90 years young tomorrow - so Happy Birthday Aunty Ila! I know she doesn't browse the web but it's the thought :)
Whilst I was visiting her a few years ago some relatives dropped by with a bunch of wonderful roses. In amongst them was a beautiful striped rose. I just loved it and discovered what it was. I planted it in my garden (or a pot at that stage) and it always reminds me of Ila now.
Have a lovely Friday peeps and hip hip hooray to Ila for tomorrow! xx

14 comments:

  1. A beautiful rose and a stunning photo Sarah. Hope you have a great weekend x

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  2. Gorgeous photo. I love the contrast with the dark background and happy birthday to your Great Aunty.

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  3. Hi Sarah,
    Thanks for visiting my blog. A lovely blog you have here too. Nice to meet you :)
    Have a great weekend.
    Cheers
    Sarah x

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  4. A beautiful Rose for your Great Aunt. I love these type of roses and you did and excellent job of capturing their beauty. Lx

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  5. What amazing colours - it looks, literally, unreal! And that's a great milestone to hit 90 years of age (here's hoping!!)

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  6. Beautiful photos. If you like garden flowers and photos please visit my garden. www.mysisterdalesgarden.com check out photo gallery 1

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  7. Sarah i can smell that beautiful rose from here, it is divine. I'm wishing Aunt Ila a beautiful birthday too, for her 90th.

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  8. So beautiful that it is worth posting again, and again, and...
    Love it!

    Have a great weekend, Sarah!

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  9. What a lovely sentiment behind your lovely rose x

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  10. What a gorgeous rose. Happy birthday to your Aunty:)

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  11. wonderful rose. hope you are having a great weekend Sarah!

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  12. It's lovely Sarah, really great shot, I think it's so nice when flowers remind you of certain people and have a special story behind them. I hope you had a good weekend, can't believe it's over already!

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  13. I love your Scentimental rose. Wish I can also have like that. Anyway, I enjoyed reading your post. Thanks for sharing.

    -yumi-

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