As I mentioned last week, more of the plants on the balcony have been in blossom since I got back a week and a half ago. The orange rose bush in the original bed had tiny buds then but they blossomed over the week, and I start with a picture of two very elegant buds there. That picture was taken yesterday. It is followed by a picture taken the day before, when the second blossom was just emerging.

The orange bush in the long bed in the east was further ahead when I got back, so the two pictures of that which I show were taken a week ago. The second shows yet another perfect flower, as indeed the more distant view earlier also suggests.

In between these orange flowers I show a new red rose, which appeared in the little bed on the west. That tends to be shy, and only exceptionally, which I have shown, is there more than one blossom. But though it looked bare when I got back, there was a tiny bud, and on Monday it had flowered.

The final picture is of roses on the plant I showed last week. The picture of the blossoms then showed two buds fight on top, and this week they too were in flower. That bush is indeed prolific, for there are more buds there which will flower over the next few days.