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The tulips are blooming in my back-yard garden, but when I dropped in at Blue Bombers training camp on Tuesday, I couldn’t help but notice the Rose.

New cornerback Winston Rose seemed to pop up regularly during the four-hour session, and the free-agent addition from the B.C. Lions attracted the largest swarm of news bees after it.

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The leading candidate to replace released veteran Chris Randle, Rose pollinated the media scrum with positivity, much like he tries to do every time he steps on the field.

“PVO,” Rose calls it. “Positive vibes only. It just trickles down. If you’re out here having fun, everybody else is going to have fun.”

Rose certainly had a good time going high in the air to break up a pass intended for Darvin Adams, one of the highlights of Day 3 of camp.

Another was when towering receiver Chris Matthews went high over the top of Rose to snag a ball.

There was nothing prickly about Rose’s reaction, though.