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A Blue Moon Bloom - Preston

I took an afternoon stroll in the spring sunshine(unusual in what has been a very grey and rainy spring this year), and I walked past a house with a delightful rose garden all out in bloom after a few consecutive sunny a d warm days. This included a "Blue Moon" rose bush, whose soft lilac flowers were too beautiful not to photograph.

 

Strongly fragrant, "Blue Moon" is a ravishing Hybrid Tea Rose with double lavender flowers of around forty petals. Blooming in flushes from spring to autumn, this bushy, upright shrub is ideal was bred by Mathias Tantau of Rosen Tantau in Germany in 1964. It is very popular for its strength and beautiful blooms.

 

Melbourne has experienced a colder and wetter than average winter this year, which is now bleeding well and truly into a wetter and greyer than average spring, however on the rare sunny days we are currently getting, the showing of flowers and blossoms is beautiful.

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Uploaded on November 8, 2022
Taken on November 8, 2022