My Garden Diary | David Austin Desdemona rose first blooms in May 2024

[@chocomoose394]

Lovely subtle rose. I never knew roses closed up more at night, thought it was only daisy types that did that - I'm going to have to check if my two roses do now 🤔 I know sunflower buds follow the sun ( hence their name 😁) I like to check on mine as they gradually turn from east to west throughout the day 🌻❤ I have just realised you have laid a path across the gravel to your greenhouse with slabs 👍 Hopefully you can get your glass put in before Autumn 🙂

[@lifeisbeautiful-smile]

Good morning 🙂 Thank you for your message, I hope you are well and that the sun will soon put its hat on for us🌄. It is indeed very subtle and elegant rose.🥰 I didn't really notice this before until I started making videos, when I'm unable to record the moment straight-away and have to leave the task later on, slowly I realised how much the blooms size change throughout the day (that is, if we are having beautiful weather and the is sun shining!). So I would end up recording patchy clips in different times and days to capture this process😆 I also noticed this my Emily Bronte and Golden Wedding Anniversary roses😍 Oooh, I actually never thought of the sunflower following the sun, that makes sense now why they keep on moving about!🤣 These slabs have been moved so many times already, we put these like you can see in the video when we had to use wheelbarrow for the greenhouse project. I love how portable these concrete squares. Honestly, if they could talk and walk, probably would have walked out already on me! 😆 Hopefully though these are now to stay forever laid next to the greenhouse for extra footpath around the area🥰 Thank you so much, we're hoping the greenhouse will be completed around next month, fingers crossed:)🤞. Happy Sunday and have a pleasant week ahead 💌 xxx