Rosa 'In Your Eyes' 8 October 2024

Rosemary 1968

Yesterday I noticed the fine Little rose, Rosa ‘In Your Eyes’. By the evening, like most single roses (5 petals), it had closed. I cut it and put it in a vase with warm water in the kitchen. This usually makes the rose open. This morning I decided I was going to scan it. When I placed it over my scanner, the petals fell off. Now in retrospect this was a good thing as my scan is quite different from my usual “perfect” ones.

Rosemary spotted this rose, months before she died in 2020, at the Lougheed Highway Garden Works. Because she had this unusual taste for plants that were unusual, we bought it. We quickly found out that this rose changed colour within a day from light white/yellow to magenta by the evening.

I am adding another scan to this blog. It is a red English Rose, Rosa ‘Thomas à Becket’. Why? I want to show that multiple petal roses don’t close. Rosemary did not ever see this rose as I purchased it last year. She would have loved it.

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Rosa 'Thomas à Becket' 8 October 2024