Roses, roses and yet more roses, new ones just don’t seem to want to stop flowering, so I think this weeks Six will be roses, different varieties from last weeks offering, everything else will have to wait for next week maybe. Weather had been mixed, a bit of everything but not as much rain as has been forecast. Yesterday other parts of Devon were flooded but we didn’t have any rain at all until the evening, we have had more overnight.
I’ll start with Rosa gallica officinalis, the Red Rose of Lancashire. This has spread quite a lot sideways, has to be held back with canes when it is time for the box balls to be cut, which is any day now!
It is a lovely rose but more pink then red in my eyes. I bought it because it reminds me of home in the northwest!
A climber on the pergola at the top of the garden, Rosa New Dawn. This climbs up in the company of a purple Clematis which look nice together.
Also on the pergola is rambler Mme Gregoire Staechlin, I always wish I had chosen one with an easier name as I always have to look up her spelling!
Rosa glauca in the back garden is a favourite of mine, simply because of the beautiful foliage. The flowers don’t last very long but they are followed by lovely red hips that last until the autumn or the birds eat them!
Rosa Wedding Day is climbing right to the top of one of my ancient ash trees. Part of the rose was blown out of the tree last winter in one of the gales and had to be cut back, but there still seems to be plenty of flowers and buds this year.
Looking similar, but really very different is Rosa Mulliganii which is climbing up my dead oak in the centre of the garden and where the resident tawny owl sits and hoots to me in the winter! This rose always flowered the first week of July back when I planted it about 30 yrs ago, it is getting ealier and earlier to flower now, starting the first week in June.
R. Golden Wedding which was sent to us from our nephew in Canada when we had our celebration in 2016.
R. Iceberg which is one of six that I have lining the entrance to the mini meadow. This is where the roe deer had a good chew when he/she visited the other night, thank goodness they left a few buds for me to enjoy!
I still don’t think you have seen all my roses, there are a few that still have to flower, I know that I have a lot of deadheading to do every few days, in the meantime the garden just carries on regardless and is looking very frothy and ebullient! I think next weeks Six will be very different. To see other gardens from around the world do pop over to Jim at Garden Ruminations and I know you won’t be disappointed.
So many roses! Each one more beautiful than the others, and the ‘Mrs. Gregoire Staechlin’s’ photo is truly a success.
Thanks Fred, I don’t think you can have too many roses, except when you have to keep deadheading them all!
Very nice roses, I too like the silver foliage on the Rosa glauca.
I bought Rosa glauca for the foliage really, it is so different from all the others Rosie.
A beautiful selection of roses. Your garden must be lovely and fragrant. My ‘New Dawn’ has just begun to flower.
Glad you like them all Graeme. My New Dawn was given a hard rune a couple of years ago and it is certainly responding this year, loads of flowers.
So many beautiful roses. But what I envy you the most is that you have a tawny owl in your garden.
Jude, I heard a Tawny Owl in the garden a week after we bought this house 35 yrs ago and have heard one each autumn and winter ever since! Obviously cant be the same one, but I’ve read that they stick to the same territory, maybe it is a descendant? I have had some very close encounters, in the winter when the leaves are down from my ancient trees it is quite easy to see them in the evening in silhouette on the branches. Love them!
Roses, roses, and more roses, yay! You have a wonderful collection there, and it’s a great theme for when they bloom around the same time. I might have to borrow your idea next week when mine are blooming. They are lovely and so inspiring. I can’t pick a favorite one, but your photo of Mme. Gregoire Staechlin is stunning!
Glad you are a fan of roses Beth, I am too! Most of my roses are David Austin’s English roses, but I also like the different varieties too.
I especially love the foliage on the rosa glauca but, as a Lancashire lass myself I’d have to say my favourite is the first one you feature!
Glad to meet another northener Helen! Not sure where I’m from really, born in N.Wales, brought up in Birkenhead, worked in Liverpool then moved around the NW with my husbands job until it brought us down here to Devon! The rose does remind me of my earlier days though and brings back happy memories.
Lovely to see more of your roses – you definitely can never have too many!
I agree Cathy, you can always squeeze in just one more!
I enjoyed your lovely roses, although as a Yorkshire woman I should be supporting the white rose rather than the red rose of Lancashire. I have a friend who cuts her Rosa glauca back each year and gets big, dramatic foliage. She doesn’t get any flowers though. How lovely to have your own owl.