14-NOV-2015
"Blue Bayou"
A very pretty rose bush, the fragrant blooms don't last that long, but when they bloom it is
a beautiful sight to see. Quick to repeat flower on a neat rounded bush with pretty
leaves, Bred in Germany and released in 1993.
14-NOV-2015
"Seduction"
Bred in France and released in 1988, Flowers are white, near white or white blend in colour with an attractive pink edge
and each comprise 9 to 16 wavy petals forming a delicate and romantic-looking rose. Each stem carries clusters up to 7 blooms in
an eye-catching display against vibrant, rich green foliage. It is quick to repeat flowering and its summer and autumn performances
are consistently as strong as its spring flush.
The bush is generally a well shaped 1.1m x 1.1m in size and displays excellent disease and heat resistance. The plant also makes an excellent
standard and it almost equals Iceberg in popularity as a standard rose.
Readily available, Seduction can be grown as a single specimen, mass bed of roses, or ideally as a front hedge.
Notes from the SA Rose Society website.
11-NOV-2015
"New William Shakespeare" (the rose)
‘William Shakespeare 2000’s’or "New William Shakespeare" exquisite blooms are of the richest velvety crimson, gradually changing to an equally rich purple. They are deeply cupped at first, the flowers soon opening out to form shallow, quartered cups.
This rose has the strong, warm Old Rose fragrance that we expect, but do not always find, in deep red roses. It forms a neat, upright shrub; each stem bearing a number of flowers. It was named the Most Fragrant Rose 2011 in the Hamilton trials in New Zealand.
Named in honour of England’s greatest playwright who was himself voted ‘British Man of the Millennium’. Notes from the DA site.. As usual the sizes given according to British conditions are way off the mark when grown in
Australia.. double the size and you may be nearer the mark.
03-NOV-2015
"Kronenbourg" or "Flaming Peace"
This rose is also called "Flaming Peace" which seems to suit the rose when it first
opens on a sunny day, the colours light up resembling flames. In Australia
the rose goes by the name "Kronenbourg". Bred in the UK and released back in 1966
03-NOV-2015
My love is like a red red rose...
"Alec's Red" from Scotland
This rose has been around for quite a while... bred in Scotland and released
in 1970, the lovely scent is what has kept it in the catalogues besides the
large size of the bloom. One of the earliest to bloom here in spring, the bush
keeps on blooming throughout the season. There is a climbing version that followed in 1975
that one was released by another breeder, but the climber only blooms in summer.
"Fragrant Cloud" is one of the parents of this rose.
03-NOV-2015
"Mainau Feuer" and a bee
A rose with several names e.g., "Red Ribbons" "Chilterns" "Fiery Sunsation" and of course
the name by which it goes under in Australia "Mainau Feuer" Bred in Germany and released in 1990, the same year we set up the rose garden starting with 120 roses... there now is
over 500 shrubs, bushes, climbers, ground cover roses and miniatures included in the
main rose garden and elsewhere. This one is apart from the main garden and adds a splash
of colour to the vegetable garden side of the house yard. Although called a ground cover
rose, it is quite tall. These roses are visible from our front gate.
30-OCT-2015
"Freycinet" a rugosa rose
This is a new rose recently planted in my rose garden, all new to me
Bred by Lilia Weatherly in Tasmania (Australia)
Hybrid Rugosa. (= heavily veined leaves)
Purple, yellow stamens. Strong fragrance. Double (17-25 petals) bloom form.
Dark green, attractive fall color foliage.
Height of up to 6' 7" (up to 200 cm).
Hardy. Disease susceptibility: disease resistant.
seedling of Scabrosa
Very like 'Roseraie de l'Hay', but with a different colour, more prominent stamens and slightly fewer petals. Sets plenty of large red hips. .
26-OCT-2015
"Lady X"
A very tall grower, almost a mini tree, always plenty of blooms with
a light sweet scent...a so-called "mauve" rose.
Bred in France & released for sale 1965
27-OCT-2015
"Maurice Utrillo"
A Delbard rose recently released... Maurice Utrillo - Hybrid Tea Rose
Maurice Utrillo is a highly attractive striped Hybrid Tea garden rose
in red and white with orange centre. Produces large and full fragrant
blooms on short compact growth which has healthy disease resistant
growth. Appropriately named after the French impressionist painter.
23-OCT-2015
"Fragrant Cloud"
One of the most fragrant growing of the modern bush roses. Unfortunately it is
prone to a few vices hence one often sees this rose at the end of each line
of vines in a vineyard, it is a good rose indicator for a spraying regime.
Bred in Germany and released for sale in 1967.
Posting this rose especially for Ev
22-OCT-2015
"Catherine Deneuve"
This rose grows on a strong spreading bush and is disease resistant.
The blooms are fragrant and last well on the bush..
Bred in France, 1981
19-OCT-2015
"Katie Pianto's Rose"
A spring flowering rambler... one of the loveliest climbers with long arching canes
producing masses of flowers over many weeks in spring. This is a renamed old rose
of unknown origin, grown in Australian gardens, a prolific spring display with some
repeat in Autumn, a vigorous climber. Has a similar appearance to a clematis.