Meet Karen Blixen

This is another one of our very own roses. As you can see, it is a white rose, and it was named for Karen Blixen, information to follow. I had to try to take out some of the blemishes on this rose as white really shows up any flaws. I am sure I could have gone out and found something more showy, but Monday is errand day..and I'm running out of time.

We do have a sturdy rosebush, they kind they plant along side of highways, and I forget about that one, since it isn't showy like these tea roses are. We also have a climbing rose, but I don't know if it is going to do anything or not this year. Anyway, one more of our tea roses to show you one of these days.


Wikipedia:

Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Danish pronunciation: [k????n ?b?leg?sn?]), (17 April 1885 ? 7 September 1962), née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen. She also wrote under the pen names Osceola and Pierre Andrézel. Blixen wrote works in both Danish and in English.

Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, her account of living in Kenya, and one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into highly acclaimed, Academy Award-winning motion pictures. Prior to the release of the first film, she was noted for her Seven Gothic Tales, for which she is also known in Denmark.

Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, described as "a mistake" that Blixen was not awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature during the 1930s.[1] In Denmark, her place among 20th century Danes is second in prominence only to physicist Niels Bohr.