Pure white

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Saturday 16 May, 2015 by Uncle Spike

Oh go on then… here’s some more roses….

There are many colours that I love in the garden, but how about white? Is that a colour? I guess so. We have a few white roses, but only really at this time of year (late spring – early summer). I presume that the colour absorbs the heat, which may explain why they are the most vulnerable to the severe heat of summer, when they shrivel up long before the opening of the flower, sadly.

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The purity of the white amongst the other colours seemingly works well.

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Ok, so it might look like a flower display that could be found atop a coffin in a western funeral, but actually it’s just one of our many white ground roses. Now these do grow well here, impervious to the extremes of the heat of summer, the rains over winter, as well as the short yet cold period like we experienced this past winter.

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