Beijing in Bloom
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Fri 11 May 2018 22:47
Just a Handful of the Roses We
Saw on Our Bimble Today
We left our digs and a few minutes
later were bimbling along a main road in search of a SIM card shop, the air kept
filling with the scent of roses, then we saw our first
bushes. What a wonderful surprise, we thought that might have been
it.
We saw thousands and thousands of rose bushes, not a single one with even a tiny
hint of disease, every one pruned back each year and not a dead-head in sight.
We would later read: The Chinese rose, a crossbred rose species, is the city
flower of Beijing. Just one of the city districts has a planting area that if
joined up would cover 988.5 acres. We couldn’t help but have a quick fondle and
many a sniff, here is just a small selection of nodding
faces.
ALL IN ALL SUCH A LOVELY SURPRISE AND A JOY TO
BEHOLD
BRILLIANT
COLOURS |