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Rose

Number 28 for 2020 Weekly Alphabet Challenge: B is for Blooming

 

This is a David Austin rose, 'The Ingenious Mr. Fairchild'

 

By the early eighteenth century botanists were inching towards the shocking truth that plants had male and female organs and reproduced sexually. The first person to realize the practical implications of this was London nurseryman and author Thomas Fairchild. .

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Uploaded on July 9, 2020
Taken on July 9, 2020