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The Rose

On the one year anniversary of Vanessa's passing (October 8,2003) we planted a little garden for her out in the front yard.We planted two pink Rose bushes,Calendulas( they're her birth month flower) Periwinkles,Pentas and Begonias.The Rose bushes we planted had these huge fragrant blooms when we first put them in the ground.They were beautiful.

After those blooms died,we didn't get anymore roses.I fertilized and watered over the next few months...but still no blooms on the Rose bushes.The Calendulas started to grow and the other plants were doing well,but no roses.I wanted those roses to bloom so badly!!Seven months went by with nothing.Then in May 2004,a week before Mother's Day,I noticed a little bud.I watched it over the next couple of days but it started to droop quite a bit and it looked as if it was going to die without blooming.

On the morning of Mother's Day,I went out front and looked in Vanessa's garden and there was the rose fully bloomed! It was so pretty and so fragrant! I brought everyone out to see it.I took some pictures and then I clipped it the next day and put it in a vase on Vanessa's memory case mantle.

All those months with no blooms on those bushes and then a week before Mother's Day one shows up and then blooms exactly on Mother's Day! As I'm typing this page,it is late July of 2004,it's been over two months since Mother's Day and I have not had even one bloom since then.That one was special...my Mother's Day present from my baby girl in Heaven.







































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