DScience
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Nice composition. The wet foliage made for some very nice specular highlights. Actually the term for the quality of the blurred background is 'bokeh'. Not all blurred backgrounds have nice bokeh. This one does.
The group of flowers makes a nice loose diagonal from lower left to upper right. The diagonal tends to draw the viewers eye through the image.
Perhaps the next thing you might explore is Understanding The Hyperfocal Distance.
I feel having more of the foreground in focus would have made the image stronger by having that closest flower completely in focus. It's a good idea to make several exposures in a range of focal lengths, particularly when using a camera that doesn't have a depth of field preview function on it.
That's why i refered you to the hyperfocal distance tut, but no you wouldn't need to change the aperture.
1/3 of your dof is in front of your focus point and 2/3 is behind the focus point. You could have moved your focus point nearer till the leading edge of the front flower was in the dof for f/1.8.
Don't forget that you can adjust your aperture and ss in 1/3 increments.
The devil is in the details. You're just getting started but you're asking the right questions.