Mountbatten
Poetry in Motion
Sheila’s Perfume
Sheila’s Perfume
Toprose
Toprose
Toprose
Just Joey
Just Joey
Just Joey
Just Joey
York Minster
York Minster
York Minster
Grande Amore
Grande Amore
Crown Princess Margareta
Crown Princess Margareta
Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous
Susan Williams Ellis
Susan Williams Ellis
Silver Ghost
Silver Ghost
Silver Ghost
Silver Ghost
Aphrodite
Aphrodite
Aphrodite
Aphrodite
Aphrodite
Comte de Champagne
Comte de Champagne
Chinatown
Chinatown
Lady Hillingdon
Lady Hillingdon
Elina
Elina
The Pilgrim
The Pilgrim
Grace
Golden Beauty
Golden Beauty
Golden Beauty
Fighting Temeraire
Lady of Shalott
Lady of Shallot
Charles de Mills
Cornus kousa Eurostar
Eurostar
Home Run
Home Run
Tequila Sunrise
Tequila Sunrise
Super Trooper
Super Trooper
Cornus kousa John Slocock
John Slocock
John Slocock
John Slocock
Cornus Venus
Venus
Venus
Welwyn Garden Glory
Wisley 2008
Wisley 2008
Frau Dagmar Hastrup
Iceberg
Iceberg
Mortimer Sackler
Mortimer Sackler
Mortimer Sackler
Sambucus nigra Eva
Sambucus Eva
England’s Rose
Dupontii
Dupontii
Skylark
Skylark
The Charlatan
The Charlatan
The Charlatan
The Charlatan
The Charlatan
Wild Edric
Wild Edric
Wild Edric
De Rescht
De Rescht
De Rescht
De Rescht
Cornus Celestial
Cornus Celestial
Celestial
Celestial
Young Lycidas
Princess Anne
Princess Anne
Darcey Bussell
Darcey Bussell
Darcey Bussell
Darcey Bussell
Darcey Bussell
Darcey Bussell
Munstead Wood
Burgundy Ice
Burgundy Ice
Munstead Wood
Gardenia
Gardenia
Twice in a Blue Moon
Twice in a Blue Moon
Rosa x alba Alba Semiplena
Alba Semiplena
Princess Alexandra of Kent
Princess Alexandra of Kent
Belmonte
For Yours Eyes Only
For Yours Eyes Only
For Your Eyes Onl
FYEO …
FYEO …
Rosy Cushion
Daybreak
Persetosa
Lyda Rose
Lyda Rose
Lyda Rose
Kew Gardens
Champagne Celebration
Champagne Celebration
Champagne Celebration
Crocus Rose
Crocus Rose
Ulmus x hollandica Dampieri Aurea
Dampieri Aurea
Cariad
Cariad
Cariasd
Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu
Young Lycidas
Moody Blue
Moody Blue
Moody Blue
Gertrude Jekyll
Brother Cadfael
Brother Cadfael
Lucky!
Harlow Carr
Harlow Carr
Harlow Carr
You’re Beautiful
Your Beautiful
You’re Beautiful
Young Lycidas
Young Princess
Young Princess
Young Princess
My Valentine
My Valentine
My Valentine
Golden dogwood and salvias
Kew Gardens
Velvet Fragrance
Velvet Fragrance
Hot Chocolate
Rambling Rector
Rambling Rector
Paul’s Lemon Pillar
Perdita
Lichtkonigen Lucia
Leah Tutu
Varenna Allen
Varenna Allen
Varenna Allen
Varenna Allen
English Garden
Solero
FYEO …
Sally Homes
Moonlight
Moonlight
Moonlight
Silver Ghost
Gold Spice
Norwich Castle
Hakone Grass
Golden Wedding
Lucky!
Mrs Oakley Fisher
Mrs Oakley Fisher
As promised – and be careful what you wish for in future – a grand gallery of roses captured yesterday in the riot of colour that is the Bowes Lyon Rose Garden at RHS Wisley in Surrey. The newer of two rose gardens, this features wide, broad and ascending (or descending) paths with generous steps, pools of oval lawns, lush perennial planting with shrubs (especially the Cornus), Sambucus, Cotinus, Willows and plenty of grasses – the Stipa gigantea will have a huge impact on the visuals in a couple of months.
Below, some other bits and bobs that caught my eye at Wisley and elsewhere as I made my way through the day.
Perennials and more perennials the order of the day today, with a generous delivery to Petersham Nurseries. 9 trolleys? 10? Tomorrow – ah well! Tomorrow brings a delivery from David Austin roses – 126 shrub roses, 42 regular climbers, 40 larger specimen climbers and 30 large specimen shrubs – and did I mention another batch of Standard Roses – including Claire Austin, Tranquility and Desdemona (the latter two, being brand new trials). Every day is a Rose Festival at the moment….
http://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/colour/white-cream
I’ll break off now as I’m contributing to a workshop tomorrow titled ‘Creating a Cottage Garden’ and of course I’m talking roses …..
Events
Onorpordium acanthum
Dictamnus Alba
Dictamnus Alba
Silene latifolia subsp Alba
Roscoea Jeffrey Thomas
Primula bulleyana
Dianthus Mojito
Primula viallii
Calla Lily
Primula viallii
Geum Mrs J Bradshaw
Primula viallii
Primula viallii
Primula viallii
Calla Lily Picasso
Midnight Owl
Midnight Owl
Astrantia Midnight Owl
Midnight Owl
Astrantia Midnight Owl
Primula bulleyana
Astrantia Ruby Star
Tangerine Sky
Onopordium acanthum
Buckeye Belle
Buckeye Belle
Paeony Buckeye Belle
Tangerine Sky
Iris Tangerine Sky
Tequila Flame
Lupin Tequila Flame
Lupin Purple Swirl
Princess Paola
Princess Paola
Alstroemeria Princess Sara
Achillea Moonshine
Achillea Moonshine
Princess Claire
Alstromeria Princess Claire
Geraneum pratense Mrs Kendall Clark
Dictamnus albus var purpureus
Dictamnus albus var purpureus
Hemerocallis …
Allium and Astrantia
Allium and Astrantia
Salvia Caradonna
…?!
Geraneum Orion
Festuca Intense Blue
Astrantia Roma
Geraneum Orion
Astrantia Roma
The Generous Gardener
The Generous Gardener
Wollerton Old Hall
Sir John Betjeman
Tree Ferns
Kew Garden
Digitalis Suoon’s Apricot
Digitalis Sutton’s Apricot
Gruss an Aachen
Gruss an Aachen
Unknown Rose
Unknown Rose
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Martin Ogden - gardener and photographer, rose-whisperer and garden wanderer. Loving all things horticultural and learning every day. On the cusp of new adventures in Dorset...
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That “Charlatan” rose is amazing! So many to love. I saw “Fighting Temeraire” last summer in Queen Mary’s Rose Garden — gorgeous. Thanks for these! Do you have a favorite?
Thanks for your comments – the Charlatan was pretty much covered in these upward facing blooms – quite a sight. Silver Ghost has large pure white, velvety petals and hugely floriferous; Wild Edric is rich in colour and fragrance, wild and impossibly healthy (a rugosa hybrid from David Austin); Super Trouper for its Bang! of searing orange; Cariad makes a huge bush with big pink blooms and is quite underrated (again from Mr Austin); Rhapsody in Blue (fragrance, streaks of white); Rose de Rescht – neat, deep flowers and blue-green healthy foliage; Lyda Rose for the flush of pink on the open single white blooms; Harlow Carr for its bristly, full leafy habit and small flowers in huge trusses with huge Old Rose fragrance (like Gertrude Jekyll), Lady of Shalott for the sheer flower power but wish it had a stronger scent … well, you get the idea! Fighting Temeraire has to be in their too – I took more photographs representing the variety of colour as the flowers mature and the overall effect is delightful. Healthy too.