A little extra colour for you....

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....in this grey days (here!). - It's an Austin-Rose called "Mary-Rose...."




Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)










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