i've been a sucker for those pots of minis that show up in the grocery stores around easter and mother's day. i would bring them home, plant them out when the weather was good and then watch them become prey to every ill known to the rose world. so last year i ripped them all out and resolved never again.

well, almost all, this one one was hiding under the skirts of a kniphofia and what do you know? not bad, not bad.