Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
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,…
Two pieces here, very wordy (though by no means not all my words) first from the RHS Magazine, followed by a wander through their Pruning and Training Book. Quite a lot that you might need to know about pruning summer-flowering and repeat-flowering Old Roses, what I still call Hybrid Teas and Floribunda roses, Climbers and…
Continue reading ➞ Rose Pruning Masterclass – with a little help from my friends….
and finally, Grace, once more. These are all in the original rose garden at Wisley, small-ish, enclosed, formal beds filled with many kinds of shrub roses and some climbers. Symmetrical and balanced with pretty much no other planting save for the roses. By contrast, the Bowes-Lyons rose garden, which is much more expansive, mixes roses…
Continue reading ➞ Just a few roses…
Rose Madame A.Meilland (1942) Claudia Dubreuil, born in 1887, became Madame Meilland when she married Antoine Meilland. She died in 1932 at the comparatively early age of 45. Six generations of Meillands have been rose growers. They are still the most famous rose growing family in France, and the family firm produces some 12 million…
Continue reading ➞ Madame A. Meilland
The rather cryptic headline simply names these two roses, (I'll leave you to guess which is which), found while visiting Hill Park Roses (although there is no hill and being by the side of the busy Kingston by-pass, little likelihood of a park either, but I digress..). An old-fashioned family run nursery with ramshackle buildings,…
Continue reading ➞ Twice in a Blue Moon with Ice Cream
The Teddington Gardener 