09-MAY-2007
Hakea Laurina
This hakea shrub always flowers in April-May and there are still quite a few new buds still to finish ripening. When the flowers have finished an almond-like nut with a seed forms on the canes and last for years. The shrub reaches 9 metres eventually if it doesn't blow over in the wind. In some parts of Australia this plant is regarded as a weed, but the flower is a favourite and people still like to include it in their native planting.
09-MAY-2007
Crystalline
I picked this rose to display it in a better place for photographing as it was nestled in a difficult place in the bush. The rose is suitable for the show bench and is usually borne as a single bloom on a quite long stem. It belongs to the hybrid tea class. The bush has quite a spread, is not that tall and the bloom has a spicy fragrance. Bred in the U.S.A. by Christensen and Carruth in 1987
09-MAY-2007
Pink Meillandecor - autumn leaves
This is one of several shrubs produced for roadside planting in urban areas. The bloom is a simple pink with white centre and the bush very thorny, ideal for its purpose of restricting passage way of pedestrians on busy roads. The bush would make an ideal hedge for the same purpose. The blooms quickly become hips all through the rose season.
Bred in France in 1985.
09-MAY-2007
Nevada - a large shrub rose
The buds are often pink but mostly open to a single white rose, but you do get the occasional pink bloom. The flowers form on short stems along the lengthy canes and the shrub is shaped like a very large umbrella, the canes emanating from the central base.
The shrub eventually grows to around 2 metres in height by about 3 metres in width so you need quite a big space. Birds love nesting in these big shrub roses, and we've had
families of wrens and other tiny birds making use of the prickly cover.
Originating in Spain, raised by a breeder called Dot in 1927.
09-MAY-2007
Fritz Nobis in May
A shrub which towers over a few of my other roses giving welcome filtered shade
to some of my other more delicate rose bushes. It only flowers in spring and what a display it has then, this is followed by a myriad of hips, very eye catching too.
Suited to a mixed border of roses & perennials if you have the space.
Bred in Germany by Kordes in 1940, so its been around for a while.
09-MAY-2007
Judy's Rugosa Seedling autumn leaves
My cousin Judy raised a few seedlings from a Rugosa rose many years ago
and I have one of her projeny growing in my rose garden. Each winter I
chop the shrub down to knee-high and in spring it rejuvenates with fresh
new growth and a lovely round & compact shape. Clusters of cerise pink
flowers appear at the end of each cane. The shrub eventually gets to
about 5'00" tall and wide then the cycle begins again.
09-MAY-2007
Francis E. Lester hips
A climbing rose with flexible canes making it a very easy climber to handle & train.
In spring it supplies us with huge clusters (50+) of single pink and white roses, a sight to see!
Some flower photos exist in my most recent ROSES galleries.
09-MAY-2007
James Mitchell leaves
A lovely old moss rose with deep pink pompon blooms in spring. Tall arching & flexible canes
radiate from the base - it needs some space to spread, or you can espalier onto a trellis or fence.
Very easy to grow, a very healthy rose. Bred in France by Verdier in 1861.
Blowin' in the Wind
The leaf colour is always best in May where we live