Two late-blooming roses in the front yard. The top one is "The Poet's Wife," the bottom "Wedgewood" - both of them David Austin roses, and doing fairly well. "Wedgewood," indeed, is full of buds. I saw a couple of days back, however, that DA are ceasing to propagate, and to sell, some of their roses, because of climate change, which has resulted in them getting far too buggy and disease-resistant. So no more "A Shropshire Lad;" no more "Munstead Wood," unless you happen to have them growing already. We are hyper-aware of large-scale effects of climate change, but here's a perfect example of its slow attrition on everyday horticulture.
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