Only a rose....

When we moved here - 3 years ago, there was the dark red pair that join above the kitchen window and the yellow Kerastase(it still had its label round its neck thankfully).
I hereby confess that a further one ( by the front door)and a further 4 ( squeezed into the back postage stamp border) and one more (the bare root Joie de Vivre that went in a pot ) have somehow found their way into my life,
Jenny

 

York Minster from Harkness year 1

 

not much scent. but harkness gives it a 6/10 so maybe it needs the heat to get it going ;-)

 

a bit of a sidetrack, but still rose related and it does not warrant starting a new thread .... so sorry

I landscaped a garden 2 years ago from scratch and all the existing plants except for a few large trees were left remaining ... (they used earthmoving equipment and levelled the site before I started work)

a few weeks after I completed, a rose popped up in a bed, and I cut it right down but never bothered to dig out the roots

a few weeks later, it resprouted ... and I decided to leave it and see what rose it was... it was growing fast

realized that it was a rambler or creeper and left it to creep into the tree, as if when it flowered, it would be a focal point in the garden

it grew like crazy, and has now spread about 3 meters high (right to the top of the tree and it has long hanging stalks that hang down ) ....

the 1st year, there were no flowers, and I put that down to growing in the 1st season

this is the second season, and this week I noticed that there were no flowers forming and all the other rose bushes in the garden are getting ready to bloom (all david austin roses)

so, if it does not flower again this year, do I chop it down? (it's still growing)

 

Do you remeber the "Guilty" thread Dim. You sentenced my post Christmas Pink "Princettia" to death. Iv'e still got it ....

 

yea ... I know .... I've changed though .... so sorry for the bad advice :WINK1:

I'm also enquisitive and am really hoping that this rose flowers as it would look really good in that garden ...

I used to work on a 5 acre victorian house where the whole one side has the river cam as a boundary which is also nature reserve ... (and which is 5 minutes drive to the centre of the city) .... from a patio, you ar 20 meters away from the river with swans swimming past etc

the trees are old and are well over 30 meters tall ... the centre is a garden planted in victorian style, lots of roses etc with a huge philidelphius mock orange on 1 side ... the garden is perhaps 200 sq meters, and the rest is forest

there are 4 trees around the main garden centre all approx 30 meters tall, and they have rambling roses that reach high up ... when they flower, all the other roses are in bloom at the same time, the garden is at it's peak and looks really great ... the roses are old type and only bloom once a year ... not muxh smell, but the garden looks and feels 'fresh'

it would be a really good wedding photography spot, as there is also a river .... and a punt moored in a section that has a jetty ... lots of wildlife and even 2 resident deer ... and loads of hedgehogs

the house is also covered in jasmine and climbing roses .... and they are all fully grown and perhaps well over 100 years old

the garden was planned to peak with flowers during june/july .... after that, there are very few flowers planted, and it's mainly leaves, lawn and forest, but looks stunning as the lawn is always well fed and mowed with a ride on mower ...

winter is a different story though ... and it's tonnes of falling leaves ... looks good though

an amazing place .... but sadly, the owners moved ... and I never bothered to knock on the door of the new owners ...

If it were mine, I would add a few things extra in the garden

and ... If ever I win a lotto, I would make a serious offer on that house (it's good to live in hope)

so that is one of the reasons I hope this rose flowers (I also now often plant climbing roses or clematis (sometimes 2 or 3 different varieties) to ramble up trees

 

This is the first of "Buff Beauty". Plenty more in a better viewing position to come but I just wanted to show it to you today,,,,

 

13.04pm. Just been out on the wet soogy lawn to give it the sniff test. Yes, even on this cool, sunless day - SHE DOES!! Like a fresh desert apple with a bit of Dolly mixture in it as well,

 

sounds like it smells like a charity shop

 

We don't get dolly mixtures in our local charity shop Dim but I love the smell of them - the vanilla/ strawberry notes,

 

I don't have a clue what dolly's are ....