Friday, 15 June 2018

Rose parade











No black spot.
I've no idea why not.
No special treatment was applied,
so it is just an unexpected blessing.

The window boxes are covered in black spots however.
Slate dust showers down on them daily.
Some respite today perhaps
as the builders haven't arrived.
They move in mysterious ways.
Perhaps the van will be blamed.
Or the remote relation in hospital.
Or the football.
When is the first England game?
It's going to be a long slow job.

5 comments:

  1. I can almost smell them...the roses, not the blokes.

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  2. What glorious roses Sumptuous. (Mine have sawfly!)

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  3. Some of them are almost peony-like in their chubbiness.

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  4. The apricot colour is sublime.

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    1. Graham Thomas from David Austin. It's growing into a fig tree.

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