Rose Rising

A while back at a cute little plant nursery, I couldn't resist buying a desert rose. I got the smallest one they had; it cost about $3. The price of the desert roses in the store seemed like an exponential function of the size, which to me indicated that this would be a slow growing plant. It's been sitting happily in rocky soil for quite a while now. It does, like many of my plants, go through periods where it loses several of its leaves, but then it comes back to life after a little while. However, now that it's officially summer, even though it's Hawaii and the changes are less dramatic, they are certainly there. One lovely surprise is that my rose is blooming for the very first time!