Darcey Bussell Rose

I popped to the local independent garden centre this morning to buy some bedding plants. It's a small garden centre but the plants are in superb condition and it's always enjoyable to have a browse round. I noticed this beautiful rose, almost like a peony rose with the most beautiful fragrance. On reading the label I noticed it was named after the Prima Ballerina, Darcey Bussell. I asked the owner of the garden centre if she minded me taking a few shots of the rose but the exact colour was difficult to reproduce in the camera. In fact the colour was slightly more purple than in this shot.

Have uploaded some shots taken on Tuesday from the Farne Islands onto my flickr site