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| Rosa 'Ballerina' left & Rosa 'Darcey Bussell |
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| Evelyn Hart |
The beauty of plants, and especially of roses, is that if your investigate their history, you learn history.
Some years ago I gave my youngest granddaughter Lauren (she was dancing at the Arts Umbrella Dance Company) my Rosa ‘Ballerina’ when we moved from our large Kerrisdale garden to our much smaller Kitsilano one.
Somehow Lauren lost interest in roses and recently her mother (Hilary ) “returned” Ballerina. I planted it on my laneway garden hoping it would bloom as I wanted to scan it with another rose, English Rose, Rosa ‘Darcey Bussell’. Why?
I found out that Darcey Bussell is a most famous English ballerina who retired in 2007.
This blog enables me to relate the one rose with the other and also gives me the opportunity to place here my most favourite dance photograph, that of Evelyn Hart.