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Albertine RoseSunday, 15th June 2003, page 1 of 2, West Yorkshire |
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This
Albertine rambling rose provides shade, fragrance (although at midday
as I sketch it I can barely smell it, it's probably stronger in the evening)
and a scattering of fallen petals on my Mum's pergola, built on the site
of my Dad's lean-to greenhouse.
The buds start out coral-coloured and the newly opened rose has a pink blush but this soon fades to a hint of pink or even just plain creamy white.
Speckled Woods
We
count seven speckled wood butterflies between Addingford
Steps and the canal where trees shad old railway embankments. Beneath
the sycamores by the mainline the bracken is sprinkled with glistening
drops where honeydew (the waste product excreted by aphids) has fallen
from the leaves and stems above.
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