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Roses

Sweet scents & old, stubborn roots

Eleanor Konik
Aug 30, 2021
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Photo of Pink Roses by Adrianna Calvo from Pexels

I wrote a whole screed about how much I prefer other plants to roses because I like edible practical plants and then remembered that roses totally have edible fruit, so decided to do a deep dive and see if there were any other ways that my instinctive annoyance at how popular they are was biasing me too far in the other direction.

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