I was going from Garden center to garden center searching for a beautiful rose that would smell devine. Could I find one, oh no I could not. As a child growing up in the country with a mother who loved to garden, and whose garden was filled with beauty and roses whose scent was heavenly, I have become a confused adult, why oh why have they taken the perfume out of the rose??
Dispirited on my way home I thought I would cheer myself up and buy some herbs for my herb garden, and I asked the lady, do you by any chance have a beautiful rose that smells divine, and she said sadly no, they have all been sold you will have to wait till autumn, but wait a minute and I shall have a quick look anyway. Ah ha she said I have one last one, and she came over with this beautiful rose. Oh my oh my, I put my nose deep into the red velvet flower and was transported back to the cottage, to the garden of my youth, To the home that I loved most in the world, to the far wall of the cottage, after all the glorious May Gold roses came the rose so red, whose scent was intoxicating. And now I have one of my very own and it has made me a very happy person.
So here I am now in St Emilion doing a little work and I just can't resist a poppy or two, and these are so pretty I thought I would take a photo just for you.
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