Rosa 'Darcey Bussell' 28 July 2025

Rosa 'Darcey Bussell' 2 August 2025

I have often written here how my abuelita, María de los Dolores Reyes de Irureta Goyena would remark when I was a little boy and bored, "Alex suck your elbow". Or she might also have told me,"When the devil has nothing to do he swats flies with his tails."

This blog is a splendid example of swatting flies on a lazy Saturday afternoon.

The first scan is of the English Rose named after a retired UK ballerina, Rosa 'Darcey Bussell'. Unknowingly I brushed past the rose and the stalk with with one bloom and four about to open buds broke off. I scanned it. Then I put the stalk in a vase. Today I noticed that the buds had opened.

If anything it shows the splendid continuity of this rose.

That second scan is most special and perhaps a first for me. Because that one bud was touching the scanner glass it is much brighter. I could have easily have brought the blooms to almost match that brightness. It is beautiful just as it is.