New growth

My Rodie started off with a rough beginning when planted 2 years ago. It seemed to be dead last year with it's dark brown, crunchy leaves. Then it was like a miracle as it showed some blooms last year beyond it's "deathly" look. I was impressed with the fact that what I thought I would have to rip out of my garden and throw in the compost was in fact alive. This year, it has grown some new leaves and is looking like it will be JUST fine. It only produced two blooms this year, but it's only a baby and will show it's splender in a future spring for everyone to admire. I'm just happy that it's not dead. LOL

Taracotta

Here is the first "Scarlet wonder" bloom for Spring 2008, and might I add..one of only two. LOL



Here's a view of the whole plant with it's one red beauty.



All the other "buds" (which I thought would open to show some more red flowers) ended up looking like this for about a week.



Then to my surprise, they produced more greenery like this.


Then finally...a picture of the whole plant today shows all the new green leaves that each of the so called "Buds" produced this year. I guess it thought it needed to get larger before showing off it's beauty first. LOL