Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@pauljpastor Ah, a rose cutting with a canon attached. Proposing a new category: the Rosarian literary-horticultural flex. ?s=20

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 25 Oct 2025

Daily, a rose walk. "In dancing silver-sandalled on the sea, Sing in their high and lonely melody. Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way." ~ Yeats

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Quoted by@BovrilG Anglican rosarians, two a penny. The most notable is Joseph Pemberton, who created the Hybrid Musk class of roses; though it's the Persian mystics who gave the rose not only genes but metaphysics: the flower as beloved, fragrance as presence made sensible, the garden as paradise.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @BretVDB Poets never really let roses remain botanical. Within the Abrahamic fold, Silesian or Sufi, sooner or later rose gardens end up looking like world resurrection rehearsals. Here, art from the Food Not Lawns avant-gardening collective in 2001. The line, from John Hall Wheelock.Quoted by@BretVDB Poets never really let roses remain botanical. Within the Abrahamic fold, Silesian or Sufi, sooner or later rose gardens end up looking like world resurrection rehearsals. Here, art from the Food Not Lawns avant-gardening collective in 2001. The line, from John Hall Wheelock.