Thursday 2 July 2015

"Ring a Ring a Roses" 2

In January I wrote:
"I have to admit to a love hate relationship with Roses, I love them when they are in flower with their wonderful scent, when I am pruning them and the thorns penetrate even leather gauntlets to draw blood, I am not so sure!"

June is the month for our love of roses.
Please follow me on a rose walk around Our Garden@19.

Starting on the patio the wonderfully scented climbing Rose Albertine, which grows in two areas of the garden...



...this one is on the trellis surrounding the herb garden.


Next the climbing R. Iceberg covers the trellis dividing the white and green garden from the main borders, here with Digitalis Alba..


We then go through the arch covered with R. Goldfinch...


...which was covered with Bumble Bees early one morning collecting their pollen and nectar...


...on the right through the arch is the standard weeping Worcestershire rose, the buds are yellow...



...opening to a lighter cream colour...


...opposite is the other standard R. Bonica...


...This red rose (America Beauty?) came from my grandmothers garden, and along with the other Albertine covers the rose and clematis trellis along the fence at the back of the right hand side of the main border...


...from there we go across to the never ending woodland walk where the climber
 R. Frances E. Lester...


...is trained on the fence giving a good display to both us and our neighbours...


... when they first open the petals are blushed with pink producing a wonderful scent...


...a little further along is R.glauca.syn.R.rubrifolia and...


...whose slate grey foliage contrast well with the Golden Hop growing behind.



We finish our rose walk back on the patio with the newest member of the family, the climbing rose The Generous Gardener, planted in January, with its first bloom.

If you have enjoyed this rose walk and wish to read January's Ring a Ring a Roses please click Here

14 comments:

  1. You saved my favourite for last!
    I agree with your January sentiments, but for a few glorious weeks they are the best thing in my garden and I wouldn't be without them. Yours look wonderful and very healthy.

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    1. It will be great in a couple of years time, Anne to see generous gardener when it has climbed up the wall.

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  2. It is such a good year for roses this year. You have such a wonderful collection, the perfume must be amazing!

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    1. Thank you Pauline, the perfume has been wonderful this year.

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  3. Oh yes, very enjoyable. Thanks for the tour and I only wish I could smell them!

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    1. I will try and send some over on the breeze,Cathy

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  4. The best year I can remember for roses. You certainly have some beauties and they all look so healthy.

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    1. Thank you, Chloris. Reading other blogs it does seem to be a good year for roses.

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  5. Very nice roses Brian. I have one R. Iceberg and after seeing yours, I know I should put it out of its misery.

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    1. Thank you. These Icebergs took a long time to get going, I was beginning to think they were not the climbing one. Rose fertiliser and compost worked eventually.

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  6. THank you for the pics. I don't have many roses in the garden at the moment but I aim to change that. I do have The Generous Gardener growing up an obeilisk and it is stunning at the moment

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    1. It is a new rose for us this year, it has won us over.

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