All your diamonds are really cubic zirconia!

[leene_chan]

"Madame Hardy.", a photo by Leenechan on Flickr.

That's how I feel about my other white roses now that Madame Hardy has bloomed for the first time.

Yeah, the flower is a little misshapen. But there are more to come! That flower is blooming at the top of a fifty-one inch cane, and I had to bend it way down to get a picture. Mme. Hardy has mean thorns but they aren't as mean as Polareis'!

It's hard to tell because it's been raining so much, but even though I think that Mme. Hardy is more beautiful than Mme. Plantier, Mme. Plantier has a better fragrance.