Sorry for the delay, everyone. Thanks for your patience. First of all, I'd like to express my thanks to Cielo from "The House in the Roses" for honouring me with this You Make My Day award. Thanks heaps, Cielo. Her blog has delighted me with her unique beauty, you should mosey along there and check it out if you haven't already done so.
All pictures above are parts of a park in East Perth.
I've been tagged and awarded with a "You made my day" award, my only excuse for procrastinating in attending to them is that the weather has been sooooo lovely and I'm enjoying myself pottering around the garden. I'll give you a sneak peek into what I'm talking about. So ladies, I'll get back to the tag and the award in a little while. Please bear with me. Thanks so much.
The roses in the garden have been continuously flowering, here are some of them with their names. I have to say all the David Austin roses I've got so far are excellent roses, below apart from Simplicity(Pink profusion of blooms), Gold Bunny(Highly recommended for prufusion of blooms), Seduction(Best looking when half open), China Doll (Clustered Flowers) and Perfumed Perfection (Also massive amount of blooms) which are Floribundas, all the rest are David Austin's English Roses.
One of the easiest ways to prepare a quick snack is by putting cracker biscuits, assorted cheeses and some fruit and vegies together on a cheeseboard. Apart from using it for parties, this is also very handy for when friends drop by your house for a quick visit. You can choose your favourite cheeses, but there are also assorted cheeses and biscuits readily packeted in the supermarket for this very purpose. I love Camembert, so I always have to include that. Sometimes I also use a dip with this.
Remember this table? I salvaged it from a pile of verge rubbish. A few coats of paint later (and lots of elbow grease for sanding) now it looks oh-so-fine. I painted it a pale pink. The last picture I took didn't show the details underneath . I also put little appliques on to add a bit more detail and to give it more character. 
I was trying to time it just right so that the majority of the rose bushes would flower when my rosy friend and her husband visit us here in early March. So I did the pruning and deadheading two to three weeks ago estimating by the time they arrive two weeks from now, it should be the right time for their beautiful blooms en masse.
However, that was theoretically speaking and one can only plan so much, but one can never control what the weather would do. The last two weeks were so perfect, maximum temperatures in the twenties, so much so that it fooled me into thinking it was going to continue like that and everything was going like clockwork. But alas, come this week, everything has changed. It's been scorching hot and I'm frantically trying to ward off the heat from my roses by giving them extra water. It seems to do the trick, even though a very time consuming task. With the extra heat and water, the roses speed right up with their flowering so much more, and you can imagine me trying to tell them to slow down. Many of them look like they'll just go ahead and burst into flowers the next few days, while some already have. That goes to show how little power I have over these roses and there's only so much I can do to control their cycles. Sigh! 
