A Mellow Yellow Darwin
Thursday, June 11, 2026
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| Rosa 'Charles Darwin' 12 June 2026 |
This English Rose is one that I bought this year. I could not help it when I saw its lovely yellow colour. My Rosemary was not fond of yellow roses, with the exception of the single tea rose that I put in our granddaughter's hair while she was wearing her sailor dress.
Because I am Argentine I am aware that the last colour Jorge Luís Borges was able to discern was yellow before he went blind.
One of the most interesting non-fiction books I have ever read was Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle. He relates how he went galloping in the Argentine Pampa with the soon -to-be strong man Juan Manuel de Rosas.
For Borges yellow was also the connection to his literary output as he often wrote about gold, tigres and twilight.
Because of my ever present IAM (involuntary autobiographical memory as written by Julian Barnes in his Departure9s) I must add here that right after I married Rosemary in Mexico in 1968 we were fans of Donovan's Mellow Yellow.
