Texture blending

I loved the way people blend and tone images and produce an attractive image, When I do it I feel it never looks right, but tonight I quite like what I have done. I originally went out side in the rain to take a pic of a garden bird, but the rain started to fall. So the flower being the only thing bright in the garden it was the obvious target, so I snapped a few and came inside to get dry then had a play with blending.

I had an amazing amount of hits on Flickr yesterday, amounting to 3847 views. Mainly of my Newport v Llanelli images but unfortunately no comments.

Please let me know what you think of this image, good or bad. Sometime the bad is easier to learn from.