‘Of all the flowers methinks a rose is best’. Shakespeare.

And who am I to argue with Shakespeare ? My garden has rose everywhere , I have lost count of how many there are . They are my passion . Throughout the month of June their perfume pervades the whole garden . And of course of action each year there are new one . This year I thought I had better get ‘ Chloris ’ as that is what I take in as mynom de plumein an feat to remain anonymous which has show to be ineffectual . My cover is blown and now quite a few friends call me Chloris . I do n’t mind as Chloris is another name for Flora , the goddess of flowers . I am well-chosen to be a goddess . And the rose wine is very pretty , it is an alba and so has healthy leaf , it is also relatively spineless which is useful .

Another turn out which is personal to me is the climber , ‘ Drinkstone Apricot ’ , I am pleased to have this as it was bear in my previous garden although it predates me . I am grateful to Anne of Suffolk Plant Heritage for propagating it . It is a pretty , single bloom . This one is n’t the best , it is a bit damage , but it is the only one out at the moment .

But I have roses grown from seed too . You always get surprise . Here are a couple of rambler which I grow . The first one is a tiddler of ‘ Kiftsgate ’ and has reached the top of the holly Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree .

This next one is a bit more demure and grows quite slowly . I ’m not quite certain of its parentage .

This year a seedling of ‘ Treasure Trove ’ bloomed for the first time and I am delighted with it . It will grow too big for the bamboo cane which fend for it now so I will have to rethink its position . It has lovely tenacious golden stamen . And it is my favorite of all my rosaceous babies and the only one which gets a name . I shall call her after my girl because the stamen remind me of her golden hair .

Here is its mother , ‘ Treasure Trove ’ cover an onetime apple tree . It is a seedling of ‘ Kiftsgate ’ so it has its oculus on all the surrounding trees .

Amongst my climbers , I love the blowsy apricot mind of ‘ Lady Hillingdon ’ , although she does seem incapable of holding them up . The color looks as if they have been dip in tea , but perhaps as she lolls about so it is something substantial . But I must n’t drag through the mud her namesake , Alice , Lady Hillingdon . The famous words about closing her eye and intellection of England whilst stomach unwelcome attention from her husband came from her journal of 1912 . So I ’m sure she was too prim to take anything stronger than tea .

A really reliable social climber which is always healthy and soft to propagate is the well known ‘ New Dawn ’ . It has lovely mild pink bloom .

‘ Zépherine Drouhin ’ is an early flowering Bourbon climber . She is over now but she is worth a mention because she has beautiful , very fragrant flowers and she is thornless which is always a bonus .

I do it single flower and the large , thoroughgoing blank flower and healthy green leafage ofRosa laevigata‘Cooperi ’ are wonderful . This rose need a cheery south face web site and oodles of room . The only drawback is , unlike ‘ Zépherine Drouhin ’ she has vicious spikelet .

Climbers are very useful for climb up wall and over arches but I sleep with ramblers which I can cast away into trees for a big shock . It is difficult to pick favourites , but here are a few .

The last one ‘ Paul ’s Himalayan Musk ’ comes with a wellness word of advice , given chance it will take over the whole garden .

I ’m sure you are getting rise stomach upset and I have n’t even start on my bush roses . I bang old fashioned roses well but like everyone else I have fallen for David Austin ’s English rose . My whole front garden is kick in over to roses .

But I must stop now , I will bring through some more rose wine for another day . I will just polish off with a few more photos .

14 Responses to‘Of all the flowers methinks a rose is best’. Shakespeare.

Your pictures recollect to my mind my childhood gardens in the South . Mother generally followed Gertrude Jekyll ’s design philosophy , and that ’s mine , too . Is that how you ’ve designed your own gardens ? look like it .

I love Rosa ‘ Chloris ’ ! In fact , I make love roses in general but I ’m afraid they do n’t much give care for my excessively ironical garden , or my unsuccessful person to feed them but once in a blue moon .

I did n’t know you had your very own rose Chloris 😂 It ’s a beauty . I ’m most envious of your veritable gem trove and can only begin to imagine the smell that must float through the air on a summertime Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . Shakespeare had quite a spate to say on the subject of roses did n’t he ?

‘Of all the flowers methinks a rose is best’. Shakespeare.