25-NOV-2016
"Dark Desire"
One of my new additions to the rose garden, it was on the cover of my
favourite nursery's catalogue and I was very taken with it, and
the perfume really is to die for like the description said.
Bred in Germany by Kordes, their roses grow well in our climate.
I'll be able to tell you more in a couple of years time.
10-DEC-2016
"Manderine Ice"
I didn't plant this one in my garden, it was a freebie from the nursery when they got
my rose order this year. It now resides in our 2nd daughter's garden, she grows a
few roses in her front yard. This one she planted next to a rose called either
"Hot Chocolate" or "Hot Cocoa", whichever one it is, this new little rose is quite complementary.
The flowers themselves are quite tiny, but born in profusion, and the rose has won a
lot of prizes including the Golden Rose of the Hague.
05-DEC-2016
"Purple Glow"
One of the reasons for making this gallery was to include photos of the
new arrivals in my rose garden, and here is one that has given me some
problems trying to get the colour just right...it all depended on getting
the right lighting, and at last I managed to do this with this image.
I can't tell you much about the rose yet apart from it being from
Kordes a German breeder, these are the first blooms.
17-DEC-2016
Buddleja davidii
Butterfly bush or summer lilac. An evergreen in our climate
and lovely among the rose colours, making a nice contrast.
We grew one but lost it quite a few years ago, this is our
second try at growing a Buddleja, hopefully successfully this time.
17-DEC-2016
Roses & Clematis
I don't know the name of these roses, they are from understock that came
with an ancient rose (Ispahan), but I rather like them, so it stays in situ with the
background of a clematis that is really liking our cooler spring this year.
I have already featured the clematis, you can find it somewhere on this
particular gallery. Its a clematis that suits our climate.
22-NOV-2016
"Phyllis Bide" a rambling rose
Throughout our late spring this well behaved rambler will repeatedly produce clusters of
small, semi-double flowers that are yellow with a salmon-pink flush. These gradually fade
to cream as they mature and have a good scent. The soft colouring of the flowers would make
them a very pretty addition to a cottage garden, where they would look great
clambering over arches or doorways. A delight to see in full bloom! Mine is over
an arbour where we hang flower baskets.
22-NOV-2016
"Aotearoa N.Z."
Aotearoa means 'Land of the Long White Cloud,' the Maori name for New Zealand.
Named to commemorate the 150th anniversary of New Zealand, but bred in Germany
by the famous Kordes group. This year my rose has performed better than before
and I put that down to the wonderful rains and long winter.
21-NOV-2016
Calibrachoa in a pot
This display resides on an outdoor table in the gazebo fitting in with many
similar coloured roses in that part of the rose garden.
21-NOV-2016
"Honey Bouquet"
A floribunda rose with a strong sweet perfume, is fairly new in my garden
having been planted about 7 years ago now. This year it has enjoyed
extra rainfall and has responded with a lot of new growth and buds. Its
one of the last to come into bloom in our spring.
21-NOV-2016
Calibrachoa "Fireworks"
Something new for me, I only acquired them recently, and they're in
baskets hanging from railings on our side balcony, we can see them
without going outside. They are replacing some Kalanchoe that were
starting to look a bit jaded.
21-NOV-2016
"Alec's Red" with Scottish connection
Named after a Scottish rose grower who started breeding late in life,
this being his first big success; it is now grown worldwide. Lots of
petals and a lovely fragrance keeps this rose in the catalogues.
21-NOV-2016
Scots rose "Irish Rich Marbled"
I remember reading in Susan Irvine's 2nd book about this rose and had to buy
a couple to include in my garden... placed it near the gazebo. A prickly little
bush with tiny ferny leaves and tiny black hips, it only flowers in mid spring
but in the autumn the leaves change colour making it a valuable addition. Mine
now share the spot with the modern release "Eyes For You" and they go well
together being of a similar sized bloom and complimentary colouring.
21-NOV-2016
Another patch of Alstroemaria
Once you have these growing its a very easy thing starting new patches...
all okay until Flossie takes it into her head to go skinking!
21-NOV-2016
The "Deane Ross" rose
Named in honour of Deane who took over from his father and grandfather to run a rose nursery in the state
of South Australia. He became an authority on the old roses he found them most diverse and interesting, and he also
wrote several books. When we started our rose garden Deane helped me with
the layout and promised to come and see it after a decade, but unfortunately he never made it because he died. The nursery
gave me the rose that was locally bred and named "Deane Ross" to plant in my rose garden,
and it resides near the main pathway to the gazebo. Not a tall rose, low and leafy with plenty of blooms.
21-NOV-2016
"Apricot Delight"
This is a rose that has been in my rose garden for quite a few years, we nearly
lost it when Dick was weeding with Round-up, a herbicide, and it has taken
many years to recover. Unfortunately I'm not really sure of the name, and I
can't find any information about "Apricot Delight" apart from the fact it could
be a Delbard rose that is no longer available. If anyone recognises the bloom
please let me know... it is a huge bloom and seems to have enjoyed all the
wonderful rainfall we had this year and responded well. The blooms are long lasting
on the bush.
18-NOV-2016
Calibrachoa
A hanging basket of calibrachoa, this one hangs in our car port, but this year I have
added various colours of this little plant in other parts of the garden and balconies.
I will add more of these as time goes by.
18-NOV-2016
"The Himalayan Musk rose"
Or as it is known "Rosa brunonii" so different to yesterday's being one of the latest
roses on the market to one of nature's gifts, found in the Himalayas in circa 1823. Its a
vigorous climber and is a third of the way up one of our cedar trees, and is at
present in full bloom sending a magnificent fragrance through the back door of our
home. Following this massive display - its a spring only bloomer - bright little
orange hips follow in late summer/autumn.
18-NOV-2016
"Eyes For You"
Another photo of this new rose in my garden showing more pink because of the
warmer weather arriving... the pink soon fades and you have clusters of pink roses
alongside white. There is a continuous flowering, more buds coming on and at
various stages of opening.
18-NOV-2016
"Pigalle"
This rose has a couple of other names just to confuse people.. like "Jubilee 150"
"Fakir" and "Chacock" - but whatever you call it, its a great garden rose growing
on a tall bush with plenty of strong blooms. Not much scent unfortunately, but it
can be grown as a hedge, or as a specimen rose in a garden bed.
If you're thinking I post a lot of rose photos, I do have enough growing in the garden
to feature a different rose every day for a whole year, but I won't :)
18-NOV-2016
Alstroemaria
We have these Princess Lilies growing along the edges of the main pathway
to the gazebo and on other pathways. Once you have them, they are quite easy
to start new patches from pieces of underground tubers. All okay until
Flossie gets it into her head to go "skinking" and jumps into the patch.
The plants are quite brittle and break easily.. she can make quite a mess
in a very short time! (skink = tiny lizards who feed on snails etc.)
18-NOV-2016
"Susan Hampshire"
A lovely fragrant garden rose named for the U.K. television star, but bred in France.
18-NOV-2016
"Apricot Nectar"
An old favourite in both the garden and vase.. a fruity fragrant rose
18-NOV-2016
"Woburn Abbey"
The rose takes its name from the stately home of the Dukes of Bedford.
A small growing rose that glows intense yellow in cool weather,
good for cutting and a quick repeat cycle, bred in the U.K.
28-NOV-2016
The archway
The climber "New Dawn" in bloom, facing north into the sunshine in spring.
18-NOV-2016
"Coppelia"
A tall upright shrub rose ideal for hedging - has been around since 1952
bred in France, heaps of flowers throughout the whole rose season.
22-OCT-2016
Wallflowers
We've replaced the rose "Ferdy" with a new group of roses and while we wait for
them to fill out and take the place of Ferdy, I've planted 3 wallflowers
and they're making quite a big splash of colour near the gazebo.
18-NOV-2016
"Penelope"
A lovely old rose that is really performing this spring, I think she enjoyed our
very wet October. Suitable for growing over fences or walls or grown as a hedge.
Sweetly fragrant she grows large arching canes. Mine grows near the horse paddock
and we can see her from our window towering alongside "Iceberg" another tall & popular rose.
18-NOV-2016
CLEMATIS viticella "Polish Spirit"
Growing on a tall lattice and sharing with nearby roses of pink and purple
These most recent 6 images grow in the same rose bed.
18-NOV-2016
"Anne Boleyn"
A small shrub height wise, but it arches and takes up as much space as height with cascading
canes loaded with blooms.
It bears blooms in flushes and is quite quick to repeat if you
keep up to date with dead heading. For those who aren't au fait with
English history, the story follows...
King Henry VIII became interested in Anne while he was still married to Catherine.
When Anne became pregnant, she and Henry were secretly married, sometime around
St. Paul's Day (25 January) 1533 and Henry's marriage to Catherine ended in May.
On 1 June, Anne Boleyn was crowned Queen of England. On 7 September, her daughter,
Princess Elizabeth was born.
One of my collection of Austin roses.
18-NOV-2016
"Cafe"
An unusually coloured rose, and not so easy to grow being quite fussy with
weather... it will keep in the vase if picked when freshly opened. Breeding
is good coming from the Kordes nursery in Germany. Kordes roses seem to
like our climate in southern Australia.
I quite like the colour, it makes a nice contrast in a bed of mainly
pinks mauves and deep crimson.
18-NOV-2016
"Ballerina"
The rose's version of a hydrangea when in full flush; comes out later than
many of my other roses, but there it is in the back blocks of the rose
bed in full bloom. The bush is rounded and quite neat and can be used as
a hedge as it doesn't mind being pruned.
18-NOV-2016
"Sonia Rykiel"
Old-fashioned styled rose of quartered bloom form, blooms in flushes throughout the season. 'Sonia Rykiel' has a
spreading and graceful habit. The blooms are a clear, warm pink,
and the fragrance is heavy old rose. They are generally borne in clusters of 2 or 3,
but many times singly. This is a really delightful rose to have in the garden or in the vase.
Named for the French fashion designer.
18-NOV-2016
"William Morris"
A tall shrub with arching canes, strongly fragrant and good repeat
flowering and disease resistance.
09-NOV-2016
"Belle Poitevine"
A new rose in my garden and this is only the 2nd bloom so far. You can tell by
the leaves that this has rugosa breeding, but it does date back to 1894
and is named after the region where the French raiser had his nursery.
I can't tell you much about it yet except from what is written in a rose book that
lists it. It is supposed to grow into a large shrub over time, but that is okay
it replaces a very large shrub that died when a protecting tree blew over quite a
few years ago.
09-NOV-2016
"Leda"
A "painted Damask" rose, pre-1827, I remember a Pbaser used to love this rose, but I don't
think she is still a member, a pity. We have lost quite a few members over the years, very sad.
The milky white petals are often tinged with a crimson edge. There is some repeat flowering
if the deadheads are removed.
It was named for the mythological queen who was seduced by Zeus when he appeared in the form of a swan.
My roses have suffered a little by storms that raged through yesterday evening, but no
real damage thankfully.
07-NOV-2016
"Fantin-Latour"
The scent is intoxicating and the bush is almost thornless. Mine
meanders through the rose I featured yesterday. This one was named
after Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), a famous French painter renowned
for still life and flowers, many of them Old Garden Roses.
07-NOV-2016
"Cardinal de Richelieu"
An old gallica with a similar colouring to the rose I featured yesterday, but
quite different in size. I added this rose because it is the closest name I
can get to Richard, my hubby's name (Dick). The long lasting flowers are borne in small clusters,
they start off a rich dark red that quickly changes to royal purple ageing to slate grey.
Almost thornless the small bush is ideal for a small garden. The rose was
named after the cardinal who was minister to Louis XIII. Mine is alongside of
"Fantin-Latour" and the two intermingle in the garden.
07-NOV-2016
"Nora Cunningham"
A rose bred in Australia by Alister Clark, the breeder of the well-known rose "Lorraine Lee"
and named after a family friend who was a keen tennis player in her day. Although
a small climber, I have been training mine as a shrub and so far it has been working quite well.
Bred to withstand the Australian climate and to flower spring-summer & autumn until frosts might arrive.
07-NOV-2016
Tall Bearded Iris 3
This is quite similar to the first TBI I posted a few days ago, but the colour
is lighter and I believe the name is "Needlepoint"
06-NOV-2016
"Mayor of Casterbridge"
An Austin rose; quite a few of the roses bred in the Austin nursery have names of
literary characters, and this one is a tall (8 feet) upright fragrant shrub bearing small
clusters of these cup shaped blooms in the old-fashioned rose style.
Mine is growing next to a rose of similar colour and sized shrub called "Violina",
they look quite good together.
05-NOV-2016
The view down the hillside
I'm standing at the top of the rose garden looking northwards to Mt. Lofty range in
the far distance - as you can see there are a LOT of roses between me and the view!
I love this time of year when the roses and leaves are freshly opened, though this
year we had so much rain the weeds got away from us and we had an outbreak of
black spot. We have sprayed twice now, and new leaves will soon replace those
that were diseased and fell off. Not all roses were affected by bs. Interesting
to compare the tough roses with those who can't handle dampness.
05-NOV-2016
Under the weeping rose tree
I had problems getting this photo, too much sun kept peeping through the branches
of the surrounding trees, but I kept trying and this was the best of a handful
taken today to show the progress of the roses this spring.
03-NOV-2016
"Eyes For You"
A new rose just added to my garden this year... and this is the first bloom and it exceeds
my expectation.. such an unusual rose looking more like a hibiscus.. description by the
nursery follow. Check out "Help Me Find" for more details.
This is a fairytale story where hard work and good judgement have melded to produce
a truly wonderful new rose plant for gardeners everywhere.
The flowers are reminiscent of poppies and anemones, and are well perfumed.
Repeat flowering is good. This rose so is wonderfully easy to grow*. Bushy growth 1.2m X 1m.
26-OCT-2016
"Fragrant Cloud"
A popular and often grown rose today... we were introduced to this rose not
long after we had our first child, and I always associate the rose with her.
Its a black-spot magnet and has often been used in vineyards to indicate the
need for fungicide spraying, and the same thing applies in a rose garden.
What a wonderful fragrance this old favourite has!
26-OCT-2016
"Judy's Song"
This rose is so similar to "Mother's Love" with the exception perhaps that "Judy's Song" is a larger bloom
so I'm pretty sure I've got it right even though I took this photo a few days ago.
Judy's Song was named after the singer of "The Seekers" Judith Durham. The bush is of average height
and has a spreading habit. Plenty of fragrant blooms throughout the rose season.
26-OCT-2016
"General Gallieni"
This is fairly new in my rose garden, only been there about 3 years and looking quite
good this year with enough blooms for me to get a photo or two...
Its an old tea rose which in our hot weather turns to a cherry red, but luckily I
managed to get a photo while it still displayed other colours because we haven't really
had much hot weather yet. Named for the Governor General of Madagascar, and
bred in France, 1899.
30-OCT-2016
Tall Bearded Iris 2
I believe this one is called "Santana" but I could be wrong. Its years since
we planted a heap of named bearded iris, they have been lifted and placed in different
spots in the rose garden and this year they're looking the best they've looked
for years, must be all the rain we've been having!
25-OCT-2016
"Crepuscule"
An old Noisette rose, ours is a weeping rose trained on a tall stem, though we do have
another growing as a shrub in another part of the rose garden. A very long flowering
season, and it can be trained onto a fence to act as a hedge. Sweetly fragrant.
25-OCT-2016
"Tamora" just opening
One for the border, its not a tall grower, is rather prickly but almost always
flowering for a very long season. Not much fragrance, but I just counted
between 50 and 60 buds that'll open in the next few days and that's just on one
bush - I have 2 or 3 bushes of "Tamora", an English rose (Austin).
26-OCT-2016
Tall Bearded Iris
I believe this one is called "Blue Staccato", being a musician this appealed to me
many years ago when we added a heap of the bearded iris to the garden. They
multiplied like wildfire and we ended up lining a big section of the rose garden
with these iris. Unfortunately that means lifting them about every 4 years, which
we failed to do hence not so many of them flower as they did when we first
planted them. This year we have had an over supply of rain which these iris seem
to have relished, and they're now performing the best they have for many years!
22-OCT-2016
Jonny-Jump-ups
I have a pot of these sitting on an outside table in the gazebo, they're from last spring and
have survived the summer-autumn-winter to flower again this spring.
Good value eh! I'm hoping they'll self-seed like they usually do.
22-OCT-2016
"Victoria Gold"
I love how the fresh new spring blooms sometimes have an edging in red - its what took
my eye when I decided to add this one to my rose garden. My bush hasn't grown very tall
but I have seen this one growing in Werribee Victoria (Australia) as hedging and what a magnificent
display it put on!
22-OCT-2016
Native Lily
In flower today in a garden alongside the rose garden..
20-SEP-2016
Azaleas
They have been beautiful giving a welcome splash of colour on the dullest of days; all
finished now and some daisies of similar colour have taken over, and a heap of other
daisies in other parts of the garden are displaying various hues.. I love spring!
A very windy day here today, damaging some of the sensitive canes of the newly leafed
roses... not to worry, plenty more on their way!
05-OCT-2016
"Mrs. B. R. Cant"
I've already featured her about a month ago; but the shrub has a lovely
flush of blooms right now, hard not to succumb to another photo, so I hope you
like seeing her from a different angle.
05-OCT-2016
"Devoniensis"
Also known as the "Magnolia Rose" and "Victoria", she is an old tea rose. There is
a climbing sport that is more popular than the shrub rose but I'm quite content
to have mine as a shrub. There is a fragrance - tea or lemon - and not many thorns.
She is one of the first to come into flower, though other roses in my garden
are beginning to open now.
05-OCT-2016
Clivia
Time of the year for these to flower, ours are in a large black
pot just outside my computer room window, I can see them without
going outside.
26-SEP-2016
Bluebells
Endymion hispanicus in their hundreds on the floor of the rose garden, along with
Ipheion, or blue stars also in their thousands.. everything blue is in flower right
now.
10-SEP-2016
Mrs. B. R. Cant, another view
This is pretty whichever angle you see it... a lovely old rose from the turn of
the last century (1901) with a pleasing tea fragrance. The shrub is open & tends to sprawl
a bit and any form of support is a help. Mine is near a trellis. I haven't
pruned this rose at all and rarely need to remove any dead wood. Plenty of
blooms throughout a long flowering season in our temperate climate.
10-SEP-2016
Crab Apple in bloom
We have two different Crab Apples growing not far from the rose garden, this one
is right alongside a rose bed and is very complimentary with the first roses
that bloom in the spring.
28-AUG-2016
Lady Hillingdon
She is a lovely old climbing rose that has a long flowering season, beginning
to bloom in late Winter in my garden.
A strong tea fragrance and came onto the U.S.A.market in 1910
10-AUG-2016
Safrano
This rose shrub always starts flowering early, I didn't give it a prune this year, it
had a hard prune last time. An oldie, but so nice to see it covered in these delightful
blooms as the new leaves contrast so nicely with the colour of the bloom.