Beautiful Roses

As the lockdown began, I brought some rose stems from my neighbour Sheela. I’m a lover of Roses, I have many different varieties and colours of rose plants, and some are missing like mixed colour roses, and my neighbour also is a lover of roses like me. She gave me the plant stems that I didn’t have. I eagerly planted them, watered them and waited for them to sprout the green leaves. When I saw the first tiny light green leaf, I was so excited. Then slowly the leaves began to grow and later by later, it grew into a plant and the buds showed up. I was so delighted. I spoke my rose plants every day. It sounds crazy, but roses are good stress breakers. Whenever I spent time with them my stress is reduced and I’m relieved.

The buds began to grow in size. I added manures once a week and watered two times. I took care of it very well, as the creepy crawly caterpillars love to feed them. I protected my rose plants from that tiny crawlies. The buds grew in size and it’s time for it to blossom. Every day, I watched carefully and slowly, the buds opened the petals, the petals had an orange-reddish colour it was so ravishing. Finally, the buds blossomed and the reddish-orange roses mesmerized by its amazing fragrance and radiant colour. I was delighted to have a new variety in my garden.

The other mixed variety plant stems also sprouted and gave the beautiful mixed colour of roses like whitish-pink, whitish-yellow and orange-yellow but the reddish-orange is the best of them all. The day is filled with the sweet fragrance of roses.