As a gardener, I take a keen interest in my hobby of
gardening, and it was for this, I started getting plants, and started gardening
in containers and pots on the rooftop of my house, since I do not have access
to open land so that I could do what I want to my complete satisfaction. Though
I like all kinds of plants, that could be grown in pots, I particularly, am
very fond of flowers, and when it comes to flowers, roses are counted as my
most favourites. Even when I take a look at the composition of my garden,
different varieties of roses make the most of what my potted garden is composed
of. The regular red rose, fragrant and red, some other hybrid and tea roses,
for which, I never could know the cultivars, since I have never bought from the
high-end plant sellers and rose breeders, so, it's obvious that the local plant
seller (in most of the cases in India), won't know the variety they are selling
to us. Frankly, I never cared much about their varieties/cultivars too much as
long as they provide me with beautiful blooms once in a while.
The collection is still growing, with me having a
number of roses ranging from orange, two different shades of pink, miniature
roses in creamy-white and red-orange-yellow, yellow, red and black. I have been
getting plants from far-away places, and in this series, I recently brought two
more roses, a yellow one and a black one, both hybrids. Both the plants have
been re-potted and are doing well in their individual pots. This is to say that
both of them are showing good enough signs of growth, with new lateral branches
and new shoots coming up in both of them.
While the yellow one is yet to bloom, having
concentrated its energy on growing rather than blooming, the black one chose to
bloom simultaneously, while growing up as well. In this post, I will be sharing
with you, a few pictures of this black rose, which recently bloomed up in the
garden.
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| Black rose bud |
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| Black rose bud |
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| Black rose bud |
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| Black rose bud |
While the bloom came up, I was partly disheartened
because of the colour of the bloom, which, instead of being black was of a
darker shade of red. While I was expecting a black rose, or atleast one that
could be called “black”, appears there is no concept of black coloured roses (except
for one Turkish variety, which apparently is actually, black in colour), and
so, I think, I have got a “black rose”. Nonetheless, what bloomed up was a rose
flower with a very mild fragrance of a rose, and this was somewhat enough for
me.
Most of the marguerite daisy plants have been profusely, and the phloxes
too, are blooming now, and so is the pansy and petunias. Coming up next will be
something from among these new additions. Till then, HAPPY GARDENING!
It is a great
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