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"0tterbot" wrote:

my loathing of roses is only matched by their loathing of me g! (it's an
early-childhood-bike-accident thing....;-)

Have your read Clive James' Unreliable Memoirs? There is a similar incident
in there.

having said that, we do have a lovely pale-yellow (thornless!!!!) climber
here & it's just beautiful.

Rosa banksiae -- named after Mrs Joseph Banks.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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