Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
More research for a talk later this week and the room here at TG Central is strewn with rose books - thirty of them? Forty? What to include, what to leave out - heading off into all manner of topics and side-alleys and bookmarking pieces to read when I have more leisure.. (when, exactly?) And then…
Continue reading ➞ “I love snorting Roses” – Michael Marriott, Roses & David Austin
I'm gathering my thoughts for a talk next week and came across this article in The Telegraph, written by Bunny Guinness. I'll leave her to talk more about Uncle David... Coming up roses How to find out all about the joys of breeding roses from a favourite uncle. The name of the rose: David Austin…
Continue reading ➞ Roses all the way… a potted history of David Austin Roses
The roses at Petersham are giving up their treasures with new blooms every day - Old Roses with impeccable credentials and the new Aristocracy, courtesy of David Austin. Even on such a wet, nay traditional Bank Holiday Monday - there was fragrance too. No more can I ask...
Well, a rose in the basket on the front of my bike - and a lot of smiles I encountered on the way home too. Tough little cookie, this rose - I don't think I lost a single petal and there was quite a headwind and more than a few jolts on the way. 1909…
Continue reading ➞ On my way home with Gruss an Aachen on the handlebars….
This time last year, nothing. Barely a bud, nothing even closely resembling a flower. The month-long Sub-Zero ºC that was March 2013 put back the roses until July. This year, after a mild winter and some early sunshine (and the possibility of a long warm summer), I think it will be a good year for…
I first saw this rose in a wooded situation at Wisley and it was doing fine. This specimen is out in the open in the new Bowes Lyons Rose Garden, again at Wisley though it is a different beast altogether. While it can happily manage a shady spot, it clearly loves an open sky. A…
Continue reading ➞ Rose Helen Knight
The China rose - Bengal Beauty - or Bengal Crimson - the first Old Roses to flower at Petersham - the first of any of them by a country mile! A deep cherry-red - large sumptiously-coloured single blooms, with a stretch and a twist, set against deep green, purple-flushed foliage. And set to flower continuously…
Cherry Blossom Time (though this picture was taken at Kew Gardens on 7th May last year, I suspect the display was late by a more than a week or two on account of the freezing temperatures endured all through the month of March. This set everything back - I didn't see a rose in bloom…
Continue reading ➞ At a glance – jobs to do in April
Rosa mulliganii, the rose used at the centre of the White Garden at Sissinghurst, threading its way over a filigree pergola. Vigorous, yet delicate and beautiful, a tracery of stems creating windows through into the garden. And (above) here it is in Kew Gardens. A Monster of a Plant.... A huge abundance of bright rose…
Continue reading ➞ Rosa mulliganii – roses and the Sissinghurst Technique
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