No Green Thumb Here!

So, in 2006 for my b-day, my sister (who always comes up with the neat-o gift ideas) gave me a gift certificate to "Green Thumb" to get Bare Root roses the following January. Since my front yard needs some serious sprucin' up (it's a miracle my hydrangeas come back every year!) I took an extra day off work after my planned get-away to Palm Desert to buy & plant them. Well, that was the infamous house-flood week-end, so I was a bit busy. Fast forward a whole year later & I finally get my booty out the door to get the long awaited rose plant.
I chose the "Double Delight:" one of the flowers from my wedding bouquet.
I read once somewhere that the type of flowers you like say a lot about your personality. (Or maybe I just made that up.) But, they're a bright happy color (I like to consider myself happy & colorful) & they are very fragrant. (My family can attest that through my perfume-fascinated teenage years that I was quite fragrant.) And why buy a rose if it doesn't smell like a rose. I'm not a fan of false advertising.
In front of the rose I wanted to plant the bright blue-ish purple Salvia to hide the ugly thorny branches of the roses. They didn't have any already flowering, at "Green Thumb" so I just bought some seeds.

So, Saturday with the help of my hired (or espoused) muscle, we removed the dead agapanthus with all it's evil octopus-like roots and I set out to plant my beautiful flowers. The weather was beautiful; I felt like Spring was already here & I couldn't wait to have such lovely color in my front yard. A determination to mask the icky centipedes & beetles & some strange red spider I'd never before encountered. I even braved a near dog-attack from my neighbor's cranky canine. (And I'm sorry, but his half-Lab part does in no way mask the half-Rottweiler part!)
Finally I finished my planting. I fertilized & tenderly watered. I'm not sure if I expected them to miraculously bloom before my very eyes, displaying a reflection of myself in my garden. Trying hard not to burst into a "Veruca Salt"-like episode, I looked down and this is what I saw.

Ladies & Gentleman, apparently I am a stick in the mud. I just have to remember the Primary song, "Faith is like a little seed...if planted it will grow." We'll see come May how "faith"-ful I am.