First Bud and the Extended Family...

My mini rose surprised me with it's first bud today!! This tiny thing stands only 3 inches height at the moment, but it's going to bloom anyway!! Thank God for this wonderful blessing!!













My brother doubted whether this first bud is acutally a new leaf as the size is really unbelievably small, well, maybe it is clearer to view it from the back side! Let's just wait and see...











This was a mini plant when Bryan brought home from school last November, (a regret that nobody knows its name!) its first bud also appeared when it was at about 3 inches height!! However, it looked stronger and with more leaves...




It is really kind of easy growing flower! Bryan watered this plant daily for the first 3 months, there were always 3 pretty flowers greeting us!! I added some fertilizer on top of soil when seeing the leaves turned yellowish, and then ------- it flourished and became a big plant!

I trimmed it a few times and it just keep growing.. with more buds and each time about 6-8 flowers staying, it is always pretty and the frangrance (from the leaves!) is just great!! Now I notice that the flowers look different from the time when it was a very young plant, you can see it from this picture too?



I aways feel bad to trim the plants, feeling like kind of killing or hurting something that looks so fresh and lively!! Previously I cut off this branch when it was still looking nice with a flower on it, and I just couldn't throw it away, so I kept it with some water and surprisingly, it looked nice just like never left its mother plant!! And there were roots came out from the bottom 5 days later!!! So, I bought this small pot, and kept it as a new plant... Never expected that it spread its seed here and another new life is here!! (Hope you can see it from this picture, it's just beside "its mother")



There it is, a new member of this extended family...