ROSARIRA DE MAYA
Most vineyards plant roses at the start of each vine lane to detect diseases early on which can harm the vines.
We have chosen to plant a rose at the entrance of our vineyard as a reminder that love comes before any materialistic thing.
We got this young rose from the Feria de Chantada on February 5th, which also happened to be Tu Bishvat!
We dug a little hole by the entrance and planted her there. I called her Rosarira and all of her flowers will belong to Maya.
Scroll down to follow her story.
This photo was taken on March 4th, 2023, and it made me incredibly happy to see Rosarira thriving and starting to grow its first leaves with us.
On April 2nd I got excited seeing how much Rosarira´s leaves had grown. We're still waiting for the flowers to show up, but it looks like we'll have to wait until summer for that.
By the way, it's about time we remove the little label it came with. We were just worried that someone might accidentally step on it, but now Rosarira de Maya has grown enough to stand on its own.
We came back to the vineyard on mid May, and roses were blooming in Madrid and even in Portomarin, so we were sure Rosarisa would be blooming too.
But sadly there were no flowers on her. I called Maya and she said we had to be patient and let her get used to her new home. Like most of the time, Maya was right, Rosarira wasnt going to give us flowers maybe until next year and even if she did I read it is best to remove them on the first year so that she can focus all of her energy on growing strong and stable in our vineyard for many years of beutiful flowers to come.
This time I came with tags for our vines and Rosarira de Maya had her tag on and got removed the old one.
This picture was taken on the first weekend of June 2023 when I returned to Galicia for "Encontro Raizames," the first wine fair in Taboada.
Once again, I was certain there would be a small rose for me to send a picture of Rosarira to Maya, but there wasn't any. :/
I suppose time felt longer for me since I had missed being here a lot, but I keep forgetting that good things take time. Fortunately, I have Maya and nature to remind me repeatedly.
What we do have here are plenty of yellow Daisies which the locals call "Pampillos." I have noticed many people using the leaves as decorations in bathroom soaps and candles.
I returned at the end of July 2023. Rosarira had bloomed, but two of the flowers had dried off and only one was left blooming.
In the following videos, I remove the dry flowers and water Rosarira so she can recover from the drought and hopefully survive August.
We will be back in September.
In the meantime, I will be relaxing and spending time with Maya in Israel.
Can´t wait!!!!
