PICTURE THIS PHOTO CONTEST

I've been so bad about keeping up with reading my favorite gardening blogs.  It seems like I check Gardening Gone Wild just after their Picture This contest closes each month or just before the new subject is posted.  I just happened to look today and found out I have a few hours before the deadline for this month's subject: The End of the Line.  Unfortunately I'm not really in the mood to pour through all my photos -- this FL sun has really sapped my energy. 

But I mustered enough energy to glance back into my archives and I quickly came across this one from December 2007:

It was a little tea rose that a friend picked up at the grocery store and gave us when she came over for dinner.  I think roses are beautiful, but I'm not interested in the amount of work they require.  Still it was pretty resilient and bloomed very late into that gardening season.  And it was an interesting photo subject during that season's first snow.  I doubt this photo will be honored, but I'm too tired to find something better!

Comments

[eliz]

You really think they're work? I find them to be pretty easy now that I've stopped worrying about them. I don't give them any more than the rest of my plants except a couple handfuls of food in the early summer.

[Tersa]

Good luck in the contest. Your photo fits the bill, I'd say. Poor thing just trying to be pretty and gets snowed on.

[Janet]

Good luck! Hard to believe snow already.

[mummer]

Roses are easy! And propagation from cuttings almost always takes. I'll show you...
This is such a great 'story' photo.

[Heather's Garden]

Elizabeth -- I'd probably be the same way if I planted any.

Tersa -- Thanks, but I didn't even get a mention in the awarding of prizes.

Janet -- This photo is from a few years ago, but we did have a snow storm in October in CT.

Mom -- Roses may be easy, but there's a limit to how many things I want to plant in our rented yard. We could move away some day. Really, we could.