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Monday, August 8, 2011

... a rose by any other name would smell as sweet...


We have now planted all the roses around the border to the potager. The potager lies patient in hibernation, with the brown winter hornbeams and the bare-twigged rose bushes. Most are English roses, in particular David Austen varieties (although we are definitely not going for the one stop shop look). There are a few old fashioned and some French varieties and well as many China roses.

We took much inspiration from Austen's Shropshire rose garden, Albrighton...




The roses we chose were...

Pinks

Gertrude Jekyl



Rosa Centifolia Muscosa


Chatreuse de Parma


Wife of Bath


Heritage


Zephirine Drouhin Climber


Whites

Memoire


Avalanche


Princess of Wales


Purples

Lilac Rose


Blue Sky


Dioressence


Kathryn Mansfield


Yellows

Charlotte


Jude of Obscure


Molineux


Yellow Charles Austin


Oranges

Amber Flush


Tequilla Sunrise



Wild Fire



Mari Dot


Reds


Black Beauty


Lady in Red


Dublin Bay


Loving Memory


Greens

Rosa Chinensis var Viridiflora

(technically the above is a rose, but the flowerheads are made up of multiple septals instead of petals. It works great in white and green flower arrangements).

Some more Austen Roses...



3 comments:

  1. That black rose was really something. I have to buy Canadian roses for Maine. For zone 4-5
    The others freeze. What lovely roses you have chosen. I like the orange and ole English roses.
    I hope you are rewarded next year with fantastic blooms. You have really put the work in that garden. yvonne

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  2. I stand in utter awe and admiration.

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  3. I am beginning to crave more and more violet roses. Thanks for the fabulous pictures!

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