Very Pretty Alisa! Do your flowers hold on the 'Pat Austin'? I am dissappointed on "Alexander of Kent and The Alinwick' Rose. Little fragrance and the petals fell of rather quickly.

They last a few days, but no, the plant is weak and needed a better start and more fussing. I'm not sure but think this one is not supposed to "nod" but it does. In my zone, it dies almost to the ground every winter unless you pile a bunch of stuff on them in the fall which by then I'm not in the mood to mess with them any more. I do try to prune it back every spring, cut off the dead stuff, and that seems to encourage new growth which springs forth rather quickly and into bloom.

Many of mine are disappointments, a lot because I didn't give them the room they need because I couldn't. They perform better in a little warmer climates and grower knowhow. But after the first years, I don't bother to drag the hose around, and two or three weeks without rain doesn't seem to bother them.

BTW, I didn't try to "paint" that pansy, just upped the saturation a little and used the healing brush to get rid of specks and cropped differently than I normally do.