My gratitude for rose is embodied and lived; I gift my blood back to this rose, and to other plants in the gardens below.
Indeed. what a beautiful post!!! I know you love the rose but this ode to it is beautifully written. I hated rose for years - it struck me as ornamental, a plant wrangled by old fashioned gardeners in fussy gardens. But like you I've learnt it's anything but!!! I usually pinch roses overhanging from people's gardens 😂 as I don't tend them myself. The rabbits would eat the roots and shoots this year anyway. Besides, I love foraging for rose. It's so lovely infused in oil for a face cream or made into a hydrosol and it's the essential oil I love to wear as a perfume.
Aaaah, such a gorgeous reply dear @riverflows - thank you sincerely - and for reminding me of making oil infusions too - I do need to bring that approach into my larder and medicine cabinet! It is an area I haven't done much in since I was really young, making rose water 🙏
It's such a lovely tonic in the summer - cool rosewater on teh face is just divine. Like, who needs money when you can spray yourself with free rosewater?