A rose by any other name.....

After a morning's shopping I spent the afternoon making my lunch for tomorrow. Well, not just mine; that normally takes five minutes and gets eaten straight away. No, we have friends round tomorrow so it is always good to be ahead of the game. Which means I didn't get much time to take pictures but was able to use this beautiful rose. They were given to us a week ago by other friends who came round and have survived really well (the roses, not the friends; although they have survived too, as far as I know), still with hardly any 'droop'.