Happy days

I went to the bank and got some money so i could buy Sallyanne some birthday presents, card, and some flowers. Twenty roses (ten each of red and pink cut roses) , with some gypsophila for babys breath around the flowers. I posted my arranged flowers.
I have been using my carnations as a cut flower, with reds, pinks, and the odd white flower. They smell beautiful, a sensuous sweet scent. The cottage pinks lose the scent battle, although there blooms are slightly bigger. I guess i could dead head some carnation buds to make the main flower bigger.
I have two or three nigella (love in the mist) growing by the barren front window border.that is not a success as i planted loads. The soil conditions are not right to germinate them. Across the log roll they must be better.
I got a thermometer today for the garden. Sallyanne wants it indoors so it is in the kitchen window for now. Thirty degree's centigrade today (it has Fahrenheit too for those USA people who use that measurement, 88 degrees fahrenheit).
The garden is holding up. The two weakest links are the morning glories and sunflowers which wilt all the time.
I saw some potted Hydrangea's today but never bought one. I have my cuttings rooting in soil, in the micro environment of a coke bottle. I think a seperate stem has grown from the soil, so things must be working underfoot.
I want to start a plants wishlist and have information by each flower/plant name. Peoples blogs give me ideas daily for new plants.
I got my David Austin rose catalogue today which smells lovely, freshly printed magasines always smell nice to me.mmmm.
http://www.davidaustinroses.com/english/
The photography is sumptuous, the names delicate but fanciful, and the information about rose types, and history is fantastic.The owner looks so spritely for 8o years old, married for 50.
He single handedly revived the rose in the UK, and made it as popular today in the UK and worldwide as previously. When he started off as a young nurseryman people were not buying them.
Old roses you would love this, he has a selection of old roses from Medieval times, and from the crusades.I need a large loan now to buy some yummy roses for my garden.
I dont think they will post them untill the growing season is over. So, plenty of time to read it and absorb it, and plan which rose goes where....