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Felder with Peggy Martin Rose

Felder Rushing wearing a 'Peggy Martin' rose as a garland

I’m sharing this picture of my sweetheart, all berosed, for Becky’s Squares (Burgeoning). Felder is posing with Rosa ‘Peggy Martin’, also known as The Katrina Rose.

At peak of flowering, each trailing stem of this remarkable variety is transformed into a living garland. Small but full rosettes held in grape-like clusters are produced along the whole length.

The square crop and angle of my picture disguises the fact that the rose was a huge mound, flowering on all sides. I estimated that Peggy had clothed herself in a million tiny pink petals for her Spring flush, give or take a few hundred thousands, which cannot be said for many roses you’ll meet – and those fashionable Met Gala attendees can just eat their hearts out!

The weird thing is that this particular plant is not a rare, old or unusual specimen: we found two more broadly similar plants flowering their socks off in nearby streets of the same town, Monroe, Louisiana.

For more about these two forces of nature, visit Felder’s blog or in the case of the rose, wait just a little longer for my upcoming post.

54 Replies to “Felder with Peggy Martin Rose”

  2. wow, isn’t this amazing. Like you I would have thought it was unusual, and much much better than what they were doing at the Met Gala

    1. It had all but swamped its structure. I wonder which way it will head next – no that’s a silly thought. It’ll continue heading every which way at once.

    1. I’ve met several people recently who say they are bored with it, but that’s a back-handed tribute to its reliability.

    1. I had expected to take a picture of him beside the rose, to show its size, rather than in it, but he had other ideas.

  7. “Berosed”! What a great word! He is indeed that! I’ve seen some of the photos from that Met Gala, and not a one compares to this. What a show-off Peggy is! As for comments, I had a word or two about them a couple posts ago. Yes, “heebie-jeebies” applies. Now to check out Felder’s post.

    1. I made it up with you in mind. I was thinking berose-ed, but not being in rhyme, perhaps that’s irrelevant. Felder doesn’t post very often so you are probably up to date.

      1. Berose-ed would be good too. I’m so happy that berosed was invented with me in mind! At least I’m up to date with Felderol.

  8. What a lovely man you have!
    WordPress do tend to sneak up on you. I found that clicking on ‘recent’ in the sidebar brought up another half dozen posts, but why should you have to do that?

    1. I do. I’ll try that. It is happening intermittently so far as I can see. Shoreacres (below) gave me her method – when a glitch crops up, wait two days and they’ll have fixed it. I suppose it depends whether they consider it a glitch or a feature though!

    1. I could just see this rose sashaying down a catwalk or riding on a lorry – with some imagination-squinting, that is.

  12. Wow, that’s a stunning rose; all those garlands are most impressive.

    I give up on WordPress. There always seems to be something to complain about from my end of the world. I noticed that when I opened an email notification of a new post a couple of days ago, it kept throwing it into Reader format, instead of directly into the blogger’s website (which is what I prefer).
    I’ve had that problem before and it had something to do with my Mac’s Safari ‘view’ tab at the top of the screen I vaguely remember). Or maybe it was under my Mac’s settings (combined with Safari settings).
    Anyway, it’s gone today.
    I blame these annoying things on WordPress doing a software update, because I don’t change Mac’s settings or the ‘view’ tab settings.

    1. I wish we had some control of how The Reader appears for us. I don’t like the way the most recent comment appears under each post, for example. I can’t see why anyone would want that, unless they wanted to comment before reading the post.

      1. You can make the most recent comment appear at the bottom of your most recent blog comment section, instead of the top of your comments section, Susan.
        It’s in settings.
        Is that what you’re referring to?

        1. When all the posts you follow appear under each other in the Reader, you see the most recent comment that anyone left on it under the first few lines of the post. I do, anyway.

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