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Monday, 29 July 2013

July Musing

                                            Rosa 'Blush Noisette'

This little space which scented box encloses
Is blue with lupins and is sweet with thyme
My garden is all overblown with roses,
My spirit is overblown with rhyme,
As like a drunken honeybee I waver
From house to garden and again to house,
And undetermined which delight to favour,
On verse and rose alternatively carouse"

- Vita Sackville - West, 1892 -1962

P.S. Thanks to a comment from Cathy over at 'Rambling In The Garden' I realised that I had named my rose wrongly. Yet another senior moment which has now been corrected.
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12 comments:

  1. Joanne29 July 2013 at 21:13:00 BST

    Beautiful rose and photo couldn't resist visiting when I saw this on my blogger dashboard even though i rarely visit garden blogs these days - too busy with Looking at Lyme Disease blog

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    1. Anna30 July 2013 at 20:15:00 BST

      Thanks for your comment Joanne and good to see you again :)

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  2. Su30 July 2013 at 09:50:00 BST

    That's a beautiful rose. I love small and delicate ones.
    In answer to your question on my blog, I'm sorry I don't know the names. The purple one was in the garden when I moved here and I've had the smaller one for over 15 years and the label is long gone. Sorry.

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    1. Anna30 July 2013 at 20:17:00 BST

      Thanks for getting back to me Su. What great plants to inherit!

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  3. rusty duck30 July 2013 at 15:49:00 BST

    Gorgeous. I wish roses didn't struggle with me!

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    1. Anna30 July 2013 at 20:18:00 BST

      I have a mental picture of you fighting a rose bush thorns and all Jessica but I know what you mean :) I'm sure that there's one out there that would suit your garden perfectly.

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  4. Anonymous30 July 2013 at 17:03:00 BST

    I love the sentiment of the poem, Anna - and the rose is lovely too, very similar to 'Blush Noisette'

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  5. Anna30 July 2013 at 20:22:00 BST

    Oh er that's because it is 'Blush Noisette' Cathy :) I'm blushing now. I bought 'Félicité Parmentier' at the same time. Another senior moment!

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  6. Anonymous30 July 2013 at 21:17:00 BST

    Lovely rose, Anna, and lovely poem too. I like reading Sackville-West, she's been such a poet and being a gardener as well makes her all the more precious.

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  7. Anna B31 July 2013 at 11:14:00 BST

    What a gorgeous rose and post! There's something so classy and beautiful about a rose. I dream of a rose garden one day!

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  8. Janet/Plantaliscious2 August 2013 at 21:49:00 BST

    Pretty.

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  9. Dee Sewell5 August 2013 at 00:01:00 BST

    Such a pretty image and poem to accompany it, just lovely.

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- Anna.

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