Believe it or not...
This branch of my very special favourite the Unexpected Rose* ended up in my kitchen, and there are actually six flowers on it, but some of them are hiding behind the others in the photo that I took yesterday evening:
So I passed by again on my way back home this evening and saw that somebody had pruned off this very branch along with some small twigs and left them all on the sidewalk next to the fence. I looked at the apartment building behind the fence, and there was nobody in the yard, on balconies, near windows windows... so I just picked up this branch and took it home. The flowers were fading, but they perked up in the vase. My mother is going to try to start a new plant or two from this branch when the flowers are gone and maybe plant it (them) in the her tiny village garden. Just when I was wondering how to find the exact person who planted the rose to tell me the name of the variety...
And meanwhile the flowers have reached the colour stage of this other branch, which I hope is still there (I didn't specially check for it this evening).
*Nicknamed like that because I first spotted it when it was in bloom when it was almost winter a couple of years ago.
So I passed by again on my way back home this evening and saw that somebody had pruned off this very branch along with some small twigs and left them all on the sidewalk next to the fence. I looked at the apartment building behind the fence, and there was nobody in the yard, on balconies, near windows windows... so I just picked up this branch and took it home. The flowers were fading, but they perked up in the vase. My mother is going to try to start a new plant or two from this branch when the flowers are gone and maybe plant it (them) in the her tiny village garden. Just when I was wondering how to find the exact person who planted the rose to tell me the name of the variety...
And meanwhile the flowers have reached the colour stage of this other branch, which I hope is still there (I didn't specially check for it this evening).
*Nicknamed like that because I first spotted it when it was in bloom when it was almost winter a couple of years ago.