Bully for Rosey!

Spare a thought for the poor rose. By any other name, would it smell as sweet, and present it’s special beauty to the world? To pollinators. To human beings. To me.

So why encourage you to spare a thought?

The life cycle of the rose involves bursting out into blooms in summer, specifically to attract pollinators on the wing. To be inseminated, producing the seeds to continue the species. And that’s it! Work done! But then out we go with our secateurs... dead-heading! So the rose will try again, and again, and again. Hey! That’s not fair! That’s bullying!😤