"Chookie" wrote in message
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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.

you spooky thing.

you probably also know it's growing with a really horrible bushy-climby
thing that HAS TO COME OUT VERY VERY SOON because i shan't be able to stand
it much longer. this other plant is entirely detestable (bar that it
apparently thrives on neglect) & it was indeed many months before i found
the lovely rose growing in there too!
kylie