Rosa 'Abraham Darby', Hosta 'Inniswood' and Rosa 'Bathsheba' (the yellow one) 11 August 2023

Nature rarer uses yellow – Emily Dickinson

Nature rarer uses yellow

Than another hue;

Saves she all of that for sunsets,—

Prodigal of blue,

Spending scarlet like a woman,

Yellow she affords

Only scantly and selectly,

Like a lover's words.

 Invariably when I spot yellow in my garden I think of two things. One is that my Rosemary banned yellow from the garden until we discovered Rosa ‘Mrs. Oakley Fisher’. It then became a frequent colour in our garden. And as always I remember that wonderful Emily Dickinson poem. I have used it often in my blogs. I also have many other blogs where I illustrate my fave Dickinson poems with my photographs or scans.

Rebecca & Rosa 'Mrs. Oakley Fisher'

And today 11 August 2023 (I will be placing this blog in the immediate past to fill some holes) I think of my Rosemary and while yellow is a happy colour my smile is fleeting.

 And more Emily dickinson

Rosemary white and a bit of yellow 

Nature rarer uses yellow

Luck is not chance 

T is iris sir 

The white heat

I tried to be a rose 

nature rarer uses yellow 

The Tulip

Nor would I be a poet 

November left then clambered up
You cannot make remembrance grow
November
the maple wears a gayer scarf