First-time poster - be gentle with me
What I did (using GIMP)
- Rotate 90 degrees
- Adjust curves to get the colours you see
- Tight crop
- Clone out the stalk running from bud to top right corner
- Add noise over cloned area to make the area look JPEGy
Looking at the smaller version I think I could have spent a bit longer with the cloning but hey... you get the idea!