{"id":243,"date":"2007-06-03T18:11:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/06\/03\/plant-of-the-week-rosa-cecile-br%cf%8bnner\/"},"modified":"2007-06-03T18:11:05","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T17:11:05","slug":"plant-of-the-week-rosa-cecile-br%cf%8bnner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/06\/03\/plant-of-the-week-rosa-cecile-br%cf%8bnner\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant of the Week: Rosa C\u00e9cile Br\u03cbnner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scents of summer are beginning to hang in the warm air \u2013 honeysuckle, jasmine, and roses. This wonderful rose offers a fragrance both sweet and fresh.<!--more--> The flowers emerge tightly bound and open into small pom-poms of soft pink, covering the whole plant \u2013 which, in the case of the climbing form, means many square metres.<\/p>\n<p>The flowers on the bush form are identical, and have the great advantage of being borne throughout the season, whereas the climber usually exhausts itself in one main effort. But what a sight that effort provides! The biggest disadvantage of the climbing form is its vicious thorns. It is odd that such a ferocious beast could be cloned from a bush which is virtually thornless.\u00a0 The climber puts out long whip-growths to tear your skin or your clothes as soon as you step close to enjoy those scented little pom-poms. Hidden behind sweet beckoning C\u00e9cile lurks the fearsome dominatrix Frau Br\u03cbnner, as described in Swinburne\u2019s poem <em>Dolores<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>O mystical rose of the mire,<br \/>\nO house not of gold but of gain<br \/>\nO house of unquenchable fire,<br \/>\nOur Lady of Pain!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scents of summer are beginning to hang in the warm air \u2013 honeysuckle, jasmine, and roses. This wonderful rose offers a fragrance both sweet and fresh. 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