My favourite time of year and some of my roses. Top row left to right: Gertrude Jekyll, Susan Williams-Ellis, Emily Bronte; Middle row: Geoff Hamilton, For Your Eyes Only, Olivia Rose Austin; Bottom Row: Mary Rose, Eyes for You, Charles De Mills.
Earlier in the month, all my roses had aphids on them, but I have noticed a lot of ladybird larvae helpfully getting rid of them. 
Here is Constance Spry, who only flowers once but looks wonderful while she does. I have a few others which are not in flower yet - Jacques Cartier, Ferdinand Pichard, Blush Noisette, Cottage Rose, William Shakespeare 2000, so their time will come. Lots more to enjoy.
I can almost smell these roses through my computer screen, Ellie. They're absolutely beautiful!!! ~Andrea xoxo
ReplyDeleteThanks, Andrea. When they are in bloom, there is nothing that can beat them! Gertrude Jekyll, Olivia Rose Austin and Emily Bronte are the most fragrant.
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For a minute there reading the heading I thought you were going to post about a tea party. A roses 🥀 party sounds really good too though 😊. Enjoy. Amanda x.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Amanda. Ooh, a roses party - that sounds like a wonderful thing! It is looking very pretty out there at the moment.
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Gorgeous things. I think that roses without scent are a travesty and I try not to grow them. A resolve that failed when himself bought me some 'scentless' beauties.
ReplyDeleteThanks, EC. I agree with you there. Not all of mine have a strong scent but they all have something. Gertrude Jekyll has the best fragrance I think.
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Wow! I am in awe, I cannot grow flowering plants so would not even try to grow roses. My grandfather love roses and had a garden full of them. My mother has a cutting from one of his plants in her garden still (he died over thirty years ago), one of my brothers has taken a cutting from her plant to carry on the tradition, I am glad that he has done that as I would just kill it.
ReplyDeleteThanks, sustainablemum. A lot of my roses are in pots as I haven't got the space in the borders. I have now reached the point where I can't fit any more in (unless something else goes!) I have had other roses over the years which haven't done very well and which have since gone, but I am pretty happy with the ones I have got now.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely thing to keep your grandfather's rose going. How about giving a few 'bomb proof' flowering plants a go? Hardy geraniums, erigeron karvinskianus (look like daisies), verbena bonariensis, asters (the novae angliae ones are good) are all pretty easy to grow and you can just let them get on with it.
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Beautiful. To think I never used to like roses but I've grown to love them over the last few years. I had a beautiful one called Golden Wings in my last garden which I loved. I was going to take a cutting before I moved but decided against it in the end because it was just far too thorny, but the flowers were so pretty and it was beautifully scented. I shall miss it. I brought some roses in pots with me and I've had a new rose bought as a house warming gift.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jo. You can always buy another Golden Wings if you find you miss it too much. My rose collection has changed a lot over the years as plants don't do well and are replaced. I think I have now reached a good point with the ones I have.
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Oh, just beautiful Ellie! x
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lulu. I do love roses. The scent of some off them is delicious!
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