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Jacqueline has started blooming

6/17/2013

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I have a lot of roses in my garden. Each variety affects  the senses  with  a different force and message.  Today  I whispered to myself a well-know quote seeing the first flowers of Jacqueline du Pre: "A rose is a rose is a rose" , so was Jacqueline du Pre, a genius cellist who stopped playing her beloved cello far too early.



Luckily, her interpretations have been  alive in numerous recordings and  this one is especially  worth listening to: 

       Coming back to the rose, it is a sheer beauty. Jacqueline du Pre is one of the Harkness  roses and its shapely but slightly disordered petals  seem to be made from precious china or ivory.  Semi-dobule, quite large (10 cm across) white with a flush of  pale pink  flowers open fully in the morning sun revealing a cluster of golden orange stamens and that is not all the show.  They also give off a wonderful musky scent and this festival of colour and smell lasts until  the late autumn. 
As a shrub rose it requires some space and a lot of sun. If you want to enjoy  abundant blooming the rose must be fed with good organic fertilisers. 


Jacqueline du Pre is a must in every garden even a small one as it does not grow very high (up to 150 cm). It is easy to grow unlike the music Jacqueline du Pre played. Both,  the music and the rose reflect perfection!

Jarek 
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