Gardening firsts

Not that this year's home garden is our first, but it is by far our most extensive. The vegetable garden is hubby's project while the flower garden is mine. I admit that hubby does most of the manual labor and I simply decide what I want and where I want it to go.
This is the first year that we have really taken the garden seriously. I am now the proud owner of my very first bloom FROM SEED!! It is an annual called Nasturtium, shown below. We have many other items growing from seed, but this is the first to have a beautiful showy bloom.

Our next first in the garden is our brand new rose bush. I got it yesterday at Witherspoon Rose Culture. They were having their Annual First Bloom Festival where all rose bushes were on sale for $15! One of the experts there helped me select an excellent bush, choosing it based on its overall balance, not the number of blooms. She told me exactly how to plant it and what fertilizers to use on it.

This is probably the best it will ever look, so I'll share photos now.

It is a hybrid tea rose called Peace.