yesterday was may day- and i had meant to blog about my roses- i had two bushes blooming yesterday. this is quite early for roses, but then it has been quite warm. the first to bloom was stanwell perpetual, which i saw blooming in great splendor years ago at hidcote gardens in the cotswolds. it started to bloom on 4/23/02- probably the earliest that any c-w rose has bloomed. the blooms are tiny, cream-colored, and delicately scented, and i have only a few (reads this as too lazy and mean to fertilize regularly) blooms. therese bugnet bloomed on 4/29/02- and this bush also has only a few blooms- a rosey pink that has a bit of white streaked through. i say blommed, fo course- after the megastrom last night there may be nothing left. andrew, stephan and i watched the multi-warnings on tv, and were overjoyed that the path of the potential tornado veered south of danville. the rain and possibly hail was intense for a time, however. neither will bother my new dawn rose, however, it is already dead, after 20 years i tried to move it and killed it. finding another may take some time....