first rose of the year bloomed today!!! this white rose is a new plant we planted this year. the spring was really wet and cold so we’ve had a lot of fungus and aphid problems this year as you can see in the photo- those yellow/brown spotted leaves. but even in spite of that this plant is pretty healthy and it’s gonna give us a bunch of roses. it joins a much more scrungly red rose bush (not pictured) that we planted last year. also check out the hydrangeas in the background
