On lack of background blur and real story

After using the camera for a couple of days, I've come to the conclusion that massive background blur cannot be achieved with the LX3.
When I was researching for a new camera, this feature was actually on the top of my feature list, but now that I have the LX3, it has dropped to zero importance, because I have learned that one can make very interesting portrait pictures without it. My finest example is below. It was taken in a spur of the moment, when I was talking about my new camera to my neighbour and wanted to demonstrate the wide angle.



Real story: On day two I took some pictures of roses in our garden. My wife sent one picture to her work email address to put it as desktop image on her pc. Her boss saw it and was amazed by the colours and ordered it as desktop image on all of the PCs. (Yes, she's a real bossy boss...)