Your lighting was a bit hot, and, possibly washed away details that would otherwise have shown up more in the aged wood.
very nice composition though and very well focused and well framed in.
I was going to give it a six because it didn't really grab my attention. Then I realized that it wasn't a flower in the strait challenge so I gave it an 8 so that you would be rewarded for not sticking - (no pun intented) your spare flower in this challenge.