Roses coming out!!

Jazid - your client's garden is fantasic!!!!

 

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Only Rosa banksii, but Golden Showers used to get a good write up (don't snigger BM). No piccys sorry.

 

Really beautiful!

 

Recent rains have saved the roses and they have perked up nicely. Here we go:

Scepter'd Isle


Winchester Cathedral


Queen of Denmark


Pretty Jessica


:D more to follow...

 

Kathrym Morley is a favourite and was named after the tragic daughter of Eric Morley (the Miss World promoter)


John Clare, named after the peasant poet


Cottage Rose


Mayor of Casterbridge - simply massive!


More to come :D

 

Hornbeam me thinks you like pink? Pretty Jessica has a great colour and the Kathrym Morley looks dead posh! I am warming to the more open roses these days John Clare has a similar shape to the rhapsody. A nice selection matey!

 

Some red ones coming BM :D
I don't know the name of this rose, but I call it "First & Last" 'cos it starts to flower in May and goes on to December. It is about 20 years old and does get blackspot, but apart from losing a few leaves it is unaffected, proving that you don't need to spray.


Dark Lady


Maiden's Blush


Officinalis


Falstaff


Just two more to open now - an unidentified climber and Elizabeth of Glamis. :D

 

David Austins "GRACE" for my Granddaughter.

 

I go away for four days - and what happens, we get a section on roses, and I enjoy a glorious lot of piccies of my favourite flower.

Not only that - but my front garden, which was a battle ground for field bindweed, and is now a membraned mulched rose garden - when I left they were in bud, when I came back - they'd opened and I walked in through the perfume. mmmmmm. Excuse the blowsy poppy - I just hadn't the heart to out it.

 

To add to the photo gallery of rose varieties

David Austin - Jacques Cartier- taken in 2004 but out now.



Irish Hope



Harkness Collection - Amber Abundance



Finally one of my favourites - Great Expectations

 

David Austins "Shropshire Lad" climber,
Lotsa Roses to the �£ on this one in its 2nd year
wonderful perfume

 

Fantastic roses and this is such a good year for them. David Austin and Peter Beales have really transformed rose growing. Anyone remember Harry Wheatcroft?

 

Yes I remember Harry Wheatcroft.. Hornbeam, old fellah with the whiskers. Irish wasn't he?

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Your roses are wonderful Fran I suspect they have been growing a bit longer than mine...I had to go out and water mine last evening all drooping bushes too many flowers, roots not down far enough yet on this light sandy soil did not have that problem in Cambridge and boy is it hot again here today..

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