'Albertine' sweet fleeting love.

Rosa 'Albertine' is always the perfect Christmas present, flowering from early December for about six wonderful weeks. Generous, fleeting but bountiful in it's delicate apple scented blooms, it is like a dear friend you meet just once a year and with fond memories look forward to the next.

More snow in Summer - Literal and figurative!

Well almost! After some baking hot days last week we have been plunged into a very winter like chill, not soon enough to save the last of the peony flowers though as they are well shrivelled up now as well as some other bloomers. I hope the rain is good for the fruit trees as the apples are coming along-I shall post a fruit update later this week. It seems like only yesterday they were baby blossoms!  

 

Rosa Silver Ghost -planted last year has been lovely. Very nice form and has lasted well in the heat and the rain, which is very nice as many white flowers have been spoilt by these conditions and who can blame them!

                                      

Philadelphus Belle Etoile one of my all time favourite plants.

Darling Rosa Edna Walling - I do think she would have been very pleased with this rose, such sweet nature and a wild rambling way.

Rosa Wedding Day in a pot near the Secret Garden. Ammmmazing!

The ping pong rose or January Bouquet

 A mix of pink roses saved from the rain. A new rose for me which has done so well and I think goes so well with the other (perhaps more frowsy) blooms is sweet Rosa Pomponella is a Floribunda (cluster flowered) rose with small dark pink flowers in an almost pingpong ball size and shape. It has a neat dark green habit and at the moment is covered in bunches of blooms.

 

November bouquet

A lovely cluster of David Austin roses planted this time last year as bare rooted stock from Trelors; Brother Cadfael, Eglantyne, William Shakespeare, Heritage, Alnwick Castle and Dublin Bay which is not a DA but doing marvellously well this year.  

October bouquet

First blooms of the David Austin roses planted very late last year but they look to be show stoppers now and in a few days time with 30 degrees upon us. These two are not Austins but have been flowering since the beginning of October.

 

The red flower is climbing Dublin Bay and the pink climbing Cinderella. All my roses come from Treloar Roses as they are consistently the best bare rooted stock I have found.