Roses Ancient and Modern.

Rosa‘Variegata de Bologna ’

The most beautiful month of the year is here at last . If your garden does n’t appear wonderful in June you may as well string up up your horticulture gloves . And of course the Queen of the garden is the rose . The rosebush is luscious , sensuous , fragrant and exquisite in every way . I have n’t the place here to report all my favourite rose because the list would just go on and on . The expert for scent , shape and colouration are , of course , the old fashioned I ; the Gallicas , the Damasks , the Bourbons and the Moss rosebush . They take care wonderful take over lobster Mary Jane shaped hazel benders or festoon from every tree diagram fill up the garden with fragrance . But of line there are plenty of newer one too , especially the gorgeous David Austin rosiness which are wondrous .

I have a majuscule passion for single rosebush . The name , Rosa‘Complicata ’ is a bit misleading because there is nothing at all complicated about the big , single , pinkish flush on this rose .

Rosa‘Variegata de Bologna’

Rosa‘Complicata ’

If she is a little too pink for you then consider the Hybrid Musk ‘ Sally Holmes ’ . It is a large shrub rose and has healthy unripened foliage and is a batch of large , nearly , unmarried , creamy white heyday lightly tinged with pinkish . This is a rose I would never be without .

Another undivided rose I would n’t be without is the pale yellow ‘ Mermaid ’ . It makes quite a large George Walker Bush and the diffused , primrose sensationalistic flowers have long , testis color stamen .

Rosa ‘Variegata de Bologne’

Rosa‘Variegata de Bologna’

One of my favourite climbers which take a south face wall isRosa laevigata‘Cooperii ’ , the Cherokee rose . It has glossy green leaves which always look healthy , and huge , individual , thoroughgoing white bloom with golden stamens . I believe it is not quite hardy without the trade protection of a wall . Mine is a seven year honest-to-goodness cut which set out flowering last yr . When it is mature it is a mass of bloom .

Rosa laevigata‘Cooperi ’

I have to refer two more very special , undivided rose although I have n’t found either of them particularly easy or strong growing . They are so beautiful though that they are deserving hang on with . Neither of them are erstwhile ; they are both advanced Hybrid Teas , but they do n’t look like it . They are dainty . The bloom of the first one , Rosa‘Dainty Bess ’ are shell pink and they have very long , rich pinkstamens .

Rosa ‘Complicata’

Rosa‘Complicata’

Rosa‘Dainty Bess ’

The next one is a gorgeous apricot colour . I do n’t know who Mrs. Oakley Fisher was but she was lucky to have such a beautiful rose named after her .

Rosa‘Mrs . Oakley Fisher ’

A.E. Bowles shared my making love of individual rose . He compared full quarter ones to human faces . He said:‘Who wants to see the human target of their devotion improved by a numerosity of noses ofvarying sizes , the innermost being little more than slices of nose so as to pack into the eye ? ’ Obviously slices of nose are not a good look for people , but in the blush wine it is exquisite .

The rise in the next picture is a climber which grows in my garden . It is most spineless and its heyday are a endearing form with a vortex of petal giving it a frilly look . It is a gorgeous shadiness of pinko , deepening in the nerve centre . If anyone can tell me its name I would be grateful .

One of the best places to see roses is at Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire . The rose garden was contrive by the expectant rosarian , Graham Stuart Thomas . There are about a thousand cultivar put down out within two wall garden . At the centre of the larger garden is a pool with the lovelyR.‘Raubritter ’ with its pretty globular flowers cascading into the water . In the smaller garden there is an pergola embed withR.‘Debutante ’ andR. ‘ Bleu magenta ’ ; a winning combining . The climbers on the wall are all beautifully train . The most eye - take in is this adorable ‘ Lady Waterlow ’ . I would love to have this blush wine . I suppose all the roses at Mottisfont are spray but this rose looked very healthy and vigorous .

Another climber that I love was a Noisette called ‘ nightfall ’ . It is a gorgeous tone of apricot which is a shade I ca n’t stand firm . It is a standardised colour to the wonderful Hybrid Musk ‘ Buff Beauty ’ which I would never be without .

Rosa‘Crepuscule ’

I have a climbing Tea rose on my rampart , ‘ Lady Hillingdon ’ which is a like color but more butterscotchy . It is a rose that I love but I wish she would n’t always hang her heads . This one at Mottisfont is hanging her brain just like mine does .

Rosa laevigata ‘Cooperi’

Rosa laevigata‘Cooperi’

Rosa‘Lady Hillingdon ’

Apricot , let the cat out of the bag , butterscotch ; these are all shades I determine resistless in pink wine . I have the wonderful ‘ Alchemyst ’ get on the back bulwark of my house even though it does get grim spot and does n’t really match my Suffolk pink walls . It is a gorgeous come up with a strong fruity scent . It was called The Alchemyst because of the way the peak shift colour as they mature ending up as a rich atomic number 79 .

Rosa‘The Alchemyst ’

Rosa ‘Dainty Bess’

Rosa‘Dainty Bess’

A gorgeous apricot David Austin originate that I am very tender of is the beautiful ‘ Grace ’ . I seem to have run out of sunny spots in my garden but thanksgiving does very well in the shade of the apple tree diagram .

Rosa‘Grace ’

A totally unlike slanted rose that people seem to either making love or loathe is the David AustinRosa‘Rhapsody in Blue ’ . It is not a downhearted rise of course , I ca n’t guess why breeders are always endeavor to produce dispirited roses , or pretend that violet roses are naughty . It is a lovely antiquey , lap out purple and it does fade to a slatey sort of colouration which I opine you could pretend is blue . Although I do n’t know why you should want to . Val Bourne commend arise it withOriganun laevigatum‘Herrenhausen ’ when she came to spill the beans to my garden grouping . I would love to do this as the semblance of the blossom are a perfect mate . So far I have n’t been capable to find a source for this oregano which is a shame because I used to grow it and it is a lovely plant . My ‘ Rhapsody in Blue ’ never looks as wonderful as the one I saw at Marilyn Abbott ’s astonishing garden , West Green in Hampshire . Mind you , having a beautiful Sun Myung Moon threshold built into your bulwark do things off very nicely .

Rosa ‘Mrs. Oakley Fisher’

Rosa‘Mrs. Oakley Fisher’

It is difficult to know where to halt once you start drooling over rose , so just two more . I was rather taken with this Hybrid Perpetual , ‘ Cecile de Chabrillant ’ , which I saw at Mottisfont . It is such an unusual colour .

Rosa‘Comtesse Cecile de Chabrillant ’

I would n’t be tempted to try out and uprise it though . I have found Hybrid Perpetuals very prostrate to bootleg spot . In the past I have tried the beautiful ‘ Emperor du Maroc ’ , ‘ Baroness Rothschild ’ and ‘ Paul Neyron ’ . They all had to go in the death .

I will finish up with the most lusciously fragrant go up in my garden . ‘ Mme . Isaac Pereire ’ . It is a Bourbon and like all its tribe it is thorny and straggly . You have to train the stems to a nice shape or it will make a very gawky President George W. Bush . And- it let blackspot . But the flowers are princely and the odour unbelievable . So I forgive her .

Rosa‘Mme . Isaac Periere ’

43 Responses toRoses Ancient and Modern.

Oh have to dissent with you Chloris as I consider that May is the most beautiful calendar month of the yr 🙂 Having said that it is great to see blush wine again and you have some absolute beauties . I would like to visit Mottisfont . We bring down Sudeley Castle a few years ago and the roses in ‘ The Queen ’s Garden ’ there were a feast for the center and nose . I do hope that somebody comes up with a name for your unknown rose . She looks familiar but no public figure are add up to mind . What a gem to inherit .

Thanks for post all your marvelous picture of rose wine . I too have a voiced spot for single roses . I ’ve grow roses in the past times in a previous garden , but right now I only have one jump in my garden — Rosa glauca , which I ’m growing for the blue foliation . It has a very modest , mere , pinkish heyday .

Hi Chloris , thanks for visiting my blog . I have a preference for single roses , as well , and love the peach and butterscotch tint . unluckily I can not grow rose in my garden due to the deer . Even rugosas are mowed down to worthless sticks with a few minute of green inside the spiny tangle of stems . I do have aboriginal roses , though , that grow plentifully enough that the cervid ca n’t eat all of them . Baldhip rise , Rosa gymnocarpa , is mostly provide alone by the cervid because it ’s leave are so thin and small they are n’t worth eating . And the flowers , though small , have a lovely strong bubblegum scent .