{Our Royal Bonica Rose}

Proudly I want to show you our one and only survivor of the Royal Bonica roses that we used to have several of. It was quite a show when Pieter offered me the first fragile blossom. One of our favorite pinks. Not fragrant but very pretty as you will see from these photos below. Too bad most died last year from the heat...

This Royal Bonica Rose got a royal treatment... 

Is she not a beauty?

Sitting proudly on a Gien Rose Canapé plate...

Inside a sterling silver Repoussé Rose vase.

On the windowsill in our living room. Placing a cereal bowl from Gien Rose upside down to elevate the silver vase with the Royal Bonica.

Even the leaves are pretty on this Royal Bonica Rose.

She might not be back to full restored health yet but she will be stronger and fuller we hope.

This is  from several years back when we used to have a vase full of Royal Bonica. 

Displayed here on our kitchen table in a crystal Baccarat pitcher. 

We certainly have to find some more Royal Bonica rose bushes so we once again can fill a vase with these beauties...

Fond memories!

Tell me, do you have a favorite rose or color rose as well with some special memories?

{Our TURTLE KINDERGARTEN}

These fun photos, taken in mid March by my husband Pieter, show you our TURTLE KINDERGARTEN in the pond! Are they not precious? The way they  all line up on a piece of wood that is left in there where once was the fountain on an island. It got too often clogged up and we had to row to it in a boat for cleaning it up. 

Here are at least four KINDERGARTEN TURTLES and some bigger ones with a larger teenager.

But as soon as you show up, they dive into the pond...

Taking a photo was so tricky!

In the pond are the new leaves of the waterlilies as well as old leaves and catkins from the huge semi evergreen oak tree.

Can you see them? To the right of that tall tree's shade in the water...

From a different angle. 

Life as a Turtle is good...

Below are two links from previous posts where you can see the mama turtle digging in the eggs.

Do you have turtles in your pond or garden?

Have you ever seen baby turtles grow up?

Related articles
{TURTLE} | previous post by me
{White Waterlily Nymphaea odorata in our Pond} | previous post by me

{Our Oregold Roses and AARS Winner}

On April 12, our new yellow Oregold roses and AARS winners, were blooming! What a joy and they performed rather quick, considering that we bought them at Costco on February 16. They were in the ground just before we flew to Curaçao. It makes me very happy for being able to fill vases with ROSES!

Yellow Oregold roses and more yellow gold tones. Our Quercus Virginiana Grand View Gold, golden live oak, makes a perfect back drop. 

Coffee will be served in Pieter's special 1960s cup & saucers from Potterie de Driehoek in Huizen, North Holland (NH) The Netherlands.

Of course, coffee with chocolates...

Pieter did snip off these white Kalanchoe blossoms from a plant that lived inside the greenhouse during winter. Fits perfect in my tiny Silver Roses bud vase!

Oregold is a perfect rose. One can tell why it was one of the AARS winners!

Okay, have to rush inside as the dark chocolate covered pomegranate seeds from Costco start melting...

They are one of my favorites and I allow myself 3, and that will certainly not spike up my blood sugar levels too much.

Do you enjoy fresh roses from your garden as much as I  do?

Tell me if you too find roses a romantic mood setter, combined with chocolates...

Related articles:
{Our New Roses from Costco} | previous post by me