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| Rosa 'Buttercup' & Rosa 'Betsy Sinclair' 19 July 2023 |
When Rosemary and I were married in Coyoacán, Mexico on February 8, 1968 the only way of finding music that we liked was in record stores. I had a friend (we are still friends and he lives in Guadalajara), Yorkshire-born Andrew Taylor. who had some secret way of finding what was hot in music. He is the one who introduced us to Joni Taylor and Leonard Cohen.
In fact sometime in late October 1962 at his home he put a 45rpm record and asked my opinion (I did not like it). It was the Beatles’ Love Me Do”/“PS I Love You,”
I have no idea how we found out about Donovan but Rosemary and I loved the man. Perhaps because at the time there was a radio station in English in Mexico City that connected on the hour with CBS Radio we might have found out about contemporary music there.
Reflecting
back on this Donovan song I smile as Rosemary banned yellow (red and
orange) from our Kerrisdale garden in the 80 and 90s until one day I
told her about Rosa 'Mrs. Oakley Fisher'. Then I photographed Rebecca
with it and from that moment one the rose became her favourite as was
the English Rose R. 'Buttercup'. She was dead by the time that I bought
Rosa 'Betsy Sinclair' from Robin Dening in 2022. She would have adored
its colour. The date of this scan is today, 19 July 2023, but I will be
placing it back to fill my gaping blog hole as I have had a terrible
writer's blog block.
Robin Dening & Rosa 'Betsy Sinclair'
Mellow Yellow - Donovan
I'm just mad about saffron
A-saffron's mad about me
I'm-a just mad about saffron
She's just mad about me
They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
I'm just mad about fourteen
Fourteen's mad about me
I'm-a just mad about-a fourteen
A-she's just mad about me
They call me mellow yellow
They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
Born-a high forever to fly
A-wind-a velocity nil
Born-a high forever to fly
If you want, your cup I will fill
They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
So mellow yellow
Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase
They call it mellow yellow (Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
Saffron, yeah
I'm just-a mad about her
I'm-a just-a mad about-a saffron
She's just mad about me
They call it mellow yellow (Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow (Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
Oh, so yell
