A busy day at Petersham Nurseries – hundreds of new roses from David Austin… (Advertorial Alert!!)

Wedding Day?

Wedding Day ..?

Wedding Day …

Constrance Spry

Constance Spry

Constance Spry

Eden Rose, Pierre de Ronsard

Thug, the Petersham Cat

Mark, with Thug

Reine de Violettes

Gertrude Jekyll

A Shropshire Lad

Hemerocallis

Veilchenblau

Gertrude Jekyll

Munstead Wood

Olivia Rose Austin

Desdemona

Olivia Rose Austin

Olivia Rose Austin

Susan WIlliams Ellis

Penelope

Lady Emma Hamilton

Pat Austin

William and Catherine

Mary Rose

Mary Rose

LD Braithwaite

Heathcliffe

Charlotte

Boule de Neige

Munstead Wood

Sophy’s Rose

The Mayflower

The Alnwick Rose

St Swithun

Jubilee Celebration

Lady of Shalott

Lady Emma Hamilton

Princess Alexandra of Kent

Gertrude Jeckyll

Summer Song

Munstead Wood

Susan Williams Ellis

Boscobel

Gentle Hermione

Gentle Hermione

Darcey Bussell

Darcey Bussell

Graham Thomas

Graham Thomas

Claire Austin

Claire Austin

Lady Emma Hamilton

Boscobel

Fino, Alphonse or Fluffy …

Delphiniums

Munstead Wood

English Marigold – Calendula

Boscobel

Erigeron karvinskianus

Winchester Cathedral

Winchester Cathedral

A busy day at Petersham Nurseries, collecting a generous delivery of roses from David Austin – more standard roses including Desdemona, Tranquility and Olivia Rose Austin – large specimen shrubs and large specimen climbers plus a whole host of shrubs, climbers, ramblers (and repeat flowering ramblers at that) to keep us happy for a week or two. Seriously, we are the nursery with the best collection of roses – you’d travel far to better the choice!

A workshop on ‘Creating a Cutting Garden’ after the roses were safely gathered in – with Amanda Brame – and I think the audience enjoyed it as much as we did!

The rest of the day spent shoe-horning in the new roses and giving them a good water and a welcome to Petersham Nurseries!

A day off tomorrow for a Street Party celebrating the Queen’s 90th birthday and back at the Nurseries on Sunday. May the rain hold off …