Advantages: Repeat flowering, wonderful scents Disadvantages: Hard to choose which one to buy
Roses are out of fashion. They're diseased, they're boring, they're hard work and they don't smell anymore.
Oh no, no. You're so wrong. Things have moved on since the sixties.
Buy yourself a rose bush. Not just any sort. Make sure it's an EnglishRose.
Go to any good garden centre and ask to be shown the roses.
There are many growers but I always grow roses from David Austin so these are the type I shall tell you about.
These roses are bred so that they not only look beautiful but flower almost repeatedly throughout the season. They all have the scent and the appearance of older roses. They all seem far more disease resistant than some of the older varieties.
I've grown roses sucessfully on very heavy clay soil although the soil in my present garden is a little better.
You can get all the growing advice you need from ...
Marans 31.10.2005
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Advantages: Really juxtaposed and edgy.Eerie and romantic,Lyrically poetic in a Ted Hughes kinda way. Disadvantages: I only wish I could smell this album.
Mighty Like A Rose (1991) is probably the sexiest of Costello's albums, especially with songs like "After The Fall", which has a really pretty Spanish guitar floating through the eerie smoothness of this haunting song. With lyrics like 'the ceiling was festooned with phosporous stars', Costello seduces his audience effortlessly. In this song (my favourite on this album) he reminds me a little of Nick Cave and my knees certainly quiver to think of my top two guys to have a threesome with!
The most amazing thing about this album actually, is how diverse it can be. The above song as compared to "Playboy to a man", is world away. This song is more traditional Costello with the rocky fast paced feel and wailing rocky screaching vocals.
I dont know why but this album is the one that reminds me always that Elvis Costello is in fact ...
