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| Rosa 'Doctor Huey' 22 May 2026 |
I recently wrote this blog (link above) about cycles and how we all humans go through them and that they rarely coincide with those of our family and friends.
Today I saw these three blooms of Rosa ‘Doctor Huey”. I have written before how this rose is disparaged by keen rosarians as the good doctor was used as sturdy root stock for grafting on them “better” roses. Rosemary, before she died, brought the rose from our Kerrisdale lane garden (before the house and garden were demolished. I told her that we had never planted a red rose on the lane and explained that a rose had died and Dr. Huey had then prospered.
In this scan you can see the rose just about to be past, the second one, really past and the third on its dying cycle with the petals falling off. If I were to print the scan the members of the Vancouver Rose Society would not quite understand my purpose nor would they see the beauty that I see here. It is as if seeing a compact view of a mature human on their journey to non-existence and oblivion.