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| Hosta 'Neptune' & Rosa 'Mary Magdalene' 10 June 2020 |
This week my Rosemary has been in Lillooet with our daughter
Ale, helping her in the garden. I am going to finally pick her up this Sunday
14th of June. I spend the days not wanting to read the repetitive
articles of my NY Times and Vancouver Sun and I have been shunning CNN and
MSNBC for the same reason.
Our cats, Niño and Niña must know something is afoot as they
cling to me, follow me everywhere and seem to want to eat all the time.
Our garden has been seen by members of the Vancouver Rose
Society so the only work to be done now is clean-up and the deadheading of the
roses. It is about now that I must look at my once blooming roses (which are
much too tall) and consider how much I should prune them. Unlike remontant
roses (those that bloom more than once) once-blooming roses must be pruned after
they bloom.
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| Rosa 'Westerland' 12 June 2020 |
And, because nobody will be coming to the garden in the next
while, I feel tempted (and do succumb) to cutting a large display of a rose
like the one here of Rosa ‘Westerland’.
I have many scans of this lovely rose (with that synthetic apricot jam scent) throughout
season’s past and this one. Did I need to cut this bouquet?
My initial reason for scanning our roses and other plants
was a form of accurately documenting the plants of the garden. Many of our
roses have died so my scans are a comforting record of how they graced our
garden en gave us pleasure.
But more worrying is this scan of a rose with a hosta leaf.
Is this all about accuracy and record? Or is it a futile attempt at being
artistic?