Rosa 'Princess Alexandra of Kent' - 6 July 2025

 

I have written many blogs on the English Rose, Rosa ‘Princess Alexandra of Kent’ particularly since my Rosemary like it as the rose had our eldest daughter’s name Alexandra. Rosemary often told me that we had too many pink roses and that I should abstain from buying more. This rose was the exception and she loved it.

Today there it was staring at me with an unearthly beauty (where does that expression come from? It is certainly better that the present use of the word stunning). I knew I had to scan it and add it to the many scans I have of it.

Can something be so beautiful that one is compelled to action?  The bloom measures almost ten centimetres.

I went to goggle to see if some poet had written about the colour pink. One was Argentine poet Alfonsina Storni. Astoundingly I found this blog of mine that mentions the colours white, red and pink in relation to men!

Alfonsina Storni - I want you white

 The other poem I found was Emily Dickinson’s

 Pink—small—and punctual—

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Pink—small—and punctual—

Aromatic—low—

Covert—in April—

Candid—in May—

Dear to the Moss—

Known to the Knoll—

Next to the Robin

In every human Soul—

Bold little Beauty

Bedecked with thee

Nature forswears

Antiquity—