The flowers bloom in dramatic fashion, their light pink colour spreading across previously barren treetops to welcome spring.

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Even the idea that pink is a colour particularly associated with homosexuality doesn't bear out.

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Jaipur, where buildings are washed salmon pink, the colour of hospitality, is a stranger to terrorism.

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Shops are flooded with cherry blossom merchandise and food, the colour pink suddenly popping up in decorative garlands and flower-shaped sweets.

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About 400 people joined me, in a wide range of ages, shapes and abilities (and a startling uniformity in their attraction to the colour pink).

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The whole place appears to have sprouted out of the ground in a forest clearing scattered with blazing colour: bruised pink hyacinths, magenta-tinged wild gladioli and orchids with petals the colour of oyster shells.

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Many of the protesters on the march were women wearing pink clothing and carrying pink balloons, the colour adopted by breast cancer charities.

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The Spanish variant and the hybrid are more robust than the native, they do not droop as much and have a more insipid colour with pink and white hues.

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The opposition cannot even agree on a colour: yellow, orange and pink have all been chosen.

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