Final two roses and a couple of other plants

Having just had a really hot week (for the UK in June), the roses have finished their first flush, so here are the last two.  Above is New Dawn which is a reliable flowerer and scrambles over the arch.

Here it is a bit closer - a pretty pale pink.

Here is Blush Noisette.  I bought this years ago after seeing one growing at Barnsdale Gardens.  It is shoved in a pot but really doesn't get the care it should, although it does get fed twice a year and watered regularly in dry spells.  I cut it back pretty brutally and it still rewards me with these pretty and scented little flowers.  

Here is another of my favourites, a variegated jasmine.  It has a lovely scent and also gets cut back after Winter.  It needs an arch to scramble over, so I must get that organised!

Finally, a grass which I am very fond of, Calamagrostis Overdam.  It has green and white striped leaved and really pretty flowerheads.  It's a very graceful plant.

In other news, I have removed Rose Charles de Mills, which I am a little sad about. It was a healthy rose, with deep red flowers and was doing well, rather too well.  It had started to shade out other plants and it had started suckering throughout the border. It had one flush of flowers in the year, so didn't really justify a place in my small garden and was right plant, wrong place!.  It took a lot of digging out and there are some roots left in the border, so no doubt I will be finding more suckers in the future.  I am thinking it will be replaced with an ornamental grass and some salvias, as it is the sunniest part of the border. 

The rest of the Roses

It has been a good rose year so far.  Here are some photos of the other roses in my garden.  Above is Cottage Rose.

My latest acquisition, Dannahue.  I will be putting this one in a big pot in the Autumn.

William Shakespeare 2000, still growing tall and attempting garden domination.

For Your Eyes Only, which I repotted earlier this year and I thought I had killed it. The roots were growing through the bottom of the pot and it was difficult to get it out of the pot.  It looked distinctly unhappy for quite a while.  However, it has decided all is well and is flowering beautifully.

Eyes for You, which is a really pretty flower with dark purply splodges at the base.  You can see the different colours it goes through here too. It will be repotted in the Autumn too.

New Dawn flowering on the arch.

Emily Bronte who was also trying to take over.  She has been cut back a bit now after the first flush of flowers. The scent in the garden has been lovely and it has been enhanced by the little white orange blossom which has been fantastic this year. (That will need repotting too, I think...) I now need to feed them all, especially the ones in pots.  A nice relaxing job for this evening, I think.

Roses, clematis and an exotic-looking visitor

The garden continues to provide delights.  The final few roses are now in flower.  Above is a climbing rose, New Dawn.

This is Susan Williams-Ellis who is my latest addition (replacing Winchester Cathedral).

Another climber, Blush Noisette.

William Shakespeare 2000, who is making an attempt at garden domination.  It has grown really tall this year.

The clematis are now joining in.  Here is Venosa Violacea, twining around rose Ferdinand Pichard.

This is the lovely flower.

Clematis Frankie.  I bought this as a young plant and then planted it out. However, on the TV,  a clematis grower said you should pot them on and leave them for a year to develop a bigger root system.  I dug it up and potted it into a bigger pot and it has rewarded me by flowering again.

This is clematis Prince Charles, putting on a lovely show.

Here is Princess Kate who was potted on into a large tub and has rewarded me by being incredibly floriferous this year.

I couldn't resist a photo of this self seeded foxglove which planted itself in a pot by the shed.

The hydrangeas are also starting to flower.  Here is Endless Summer, the Bride (I think).

A mix of rose Jacques Cartier, a foxglove, and clematis Arabella.

This hydrangea is at the front of the house, in a large tub.  It provides a much needed splash of colour there.

Here is the flower - this is Endless Summer (Pink), I think.

The final flower (for now!) is Clematis Blue Angel.  I potted this one into a large tub this Spring and it obviously likes it!

The exotic-looking visitor is the vapourer moth caterpillar. It was busily munching away on a rose leaf, when I spotted it.  I brought it inside for identification.

It is quite an amazing looking creature with the long tail and antennae hairs.

I haven't seen one before, but apparently they are reasonably common. I put it back on the rose, but woe betide it if it tries to eat too much!

Plant combinations

I just thought I would share a couple of lovely plant combinations I noticed on my daily wander round the garden.  Above is a lovely trio of climbing rose 'New Dawn', Clematis 'Perle D'Azur' (flowering really well this year, not sure why, but very nice anyway) and Jasmine 'Clotted Cream'.  The jasmine and rose also have the added benefit of fragrance too.

Here is Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle' with Clematis 'Arabella' to the left and Clematis 'Etoile Violette' on the trellis at the back.  The Hydrangea has gone completely mad this year and has a huge number of flowers and is in danger of taking over the garden.  It is a beautiful plant though, so I just let it grow where it wants to.