Stress Buster Fiesta!

As I mentioned on today's GardenLife radio show, this past week was filled with angst: so much to do and so little time and by yesterday, I was feeling uptight, and snarky; so much so that even puttering and watering for a few minutes was not enough therapy. Then a knock on the door and it was my neighbor who brought over a box of Fiesta roses that had accidentally been delivered to her. Upon opening the box, there was the beautiful bouquet of roses, each petal in alternating colors of lavender-blue, pink, and white, a lovely vase, care instructions, and floral preservative compliments of Tom Wienckowski, owner of Fiestaroses.com and Theultimaterose.com. His Ultimate Roses are red, really, really long-stemmed (3-6 ft. tall) roses grown at his rose farm high up in the mountains of Ecuador and his Fiesta Roses are stem dyed with a patented process so that each rose petal can be a different color. After giving the stems are fresh cut and adding in the floral preservative, I plopped them in the vase that arrived with the roses. Just looking at the lovely flowers erased all the stress that had built up over the week. Thank you Tom for the lovely flowers. They reminded me to "stop and smell the roses" because life is too short not to do so. Be sure to visit his websites and be enthralled and amazed at his uniquely beautiful roses.