22-OCT-2005
Charles de Gaulle rosebud
20-OCT-2005
City of Gloucester
CoG only stays this peach colour early spring
for the rest of the season it is CREAM!
A very tall upright rosebush.
03-MAR-2006
Deane Ross
Australian bred rose - withstands heat very well.
11-OCT-2005
Gruss an Aachen
More of an apricotty-pink
06-JAN-2006
Mary McKillop
Sun tanned version
Here's the untanned M.McKillop
03-JAN-2006
Mary McKillop
and here's M.McKillop with a suntan
04-OCT-2005
Mutabilis
The rose changes colour from a safron to a musty pink
as it ages.
22-OCT-2005
Oktavius Weld
Discovered in a cemetery and named after the
headstone of the nearest gravesite. Here are
the details, thanks to Laine!
23 December, 1861
On the 20th December, at Blakiston, nr. Mount Barker, South Australia, by
the Rev. W.B. Andrews, Incumbent, Mr. Oktavius WELD, B.A., M.D., seventh
son of the Rev. J. Weld, M.A., Tenterden, Kent, England, to Miss. Ann
JOHNSTONE, fifth daughter of Mr. Henry Johnstone, J.P., of London, Canada
West.
He came to Australia via Canada
31-OCT-2005
Oktavius Weld
Named after the headstone nearest to the rose.
Here are details thanks to Laine!
23 December, 1861
On the 20th December, at Blakiston, nr. Mount Barker, South Australia, by
the Rev. W.B. Andrews, Incumbent, Mr. Octavius WELD, B.A., M.D., seventh
son of the Rev. J. Weld, M.A., Tenterden, Kent, England, to Miss. Ann
JOHNSTONE, fifth daughter of Mr. Henry Johnstone, J.P., of London, Canada
West.
He came to Australia via Canada
01-MAR-2006
Oktavius Weld
Autumn colours
Check earlier shot to see history (courtesy of Laine)
21-NOV-2005
Ophelia
Photo taken at Ross Roses, Willunga, South Australia
23-JAN-2006
Paul Bocuse
Growing in our daughter's garden
02-FEB-2006
Rose without a name
The colour deepens as the days are warmer
26-NOV-2005
Rose without a name
A mis-labelled rose no-one can put a name to.
01-NOV-2005
Vol de Nuit
I composed a work for 2 marimbas
in the minimalist style
many years ago and
called it "Night Flight"
after this rose.
