Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@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.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 9 Jan 2026
@pauljpastor Ah, a rose cutting with a canon attached. Proposing a new category: the Rosarian literary-horticultural flex. ?s=20
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