A Late Flowering

Last Christmas I bought my mum some 'carpet roses' for her gift. These are low growing rose bushes that spread sideways and flower well. The idea was to fill the flowerbed under her front window with something that required little care and the local excavating cat would prefer not to uproot.

When I got them they were little more than 6 inch high twigs with thorns. However they have turned out to be very successful and still, in the middle of November, they are covered in flowers.

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And as you approach our house, I still have flowers, too.

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It is so nice to still have those spots of colour.