Things are Looking Rosey

There was a period in my spirit as a garden designer of which I am deep ashamed . For a couple of years I refused to imbed rose in any garden that I design . I think them fusty and old fashioned . In my fevered poor sightedness they were as hip and befall as Cliff Richard in a lavender slanted ballet skirt .

I know , I know . The foolishness of young person knows no bounds . All I want was the short term kaboom of flashy perennials and in my impetuosity I was dismissive and shallow .

Mea culpa .

But the good newsworthiness is that I am now completely cured and I embrace rose with all my affectionateness . I smile at Rugosas , I trip the light fantastic with Bourbons , I frisk jubilantly with ramblers and allow climbers to twine themselves around my nude body ( but only Zepherine Drouhin as it has no prickle – I ’m not that foolish ) . However , I have learnt not to go overboard in my evangelistic sexual love . I still recoil at the idea of a rosaceous garden solely populate by floribundas and hybrid tea roses as they remind me of crematoria and the less loved street corner of municipal Rosa Parks . The secret is in the counterpoise : just enough roses with just enough underplanting . And the rose wine should always be tidy .

People incline to get overexcited by roses – they are probably the reality ’s most recognised and loved plant – and rise them just because they are roses without think about the color and form : this is a mistake . A pink wine , like any other plant , has to unify well with its neighbours . It has to get together and coalesce , to compliment and demarcation . Nature does make this reasonably easy , however , as roses are passing wide-ranging . pile of colour choice ( provide you are not set on blue ) . They come in all different sizes from the miniature to the humungous – there are roses which climb , roses which cloak , some which bush and roses that contribute themselves to use .

rose wine grow all over the man – although they are mostly Asiatic in origin – and have been priceless to poet , nurseryman , artist and lovers for millennia . I cognise that for most of the readers of this web log it is wintertime and roses are not at all topical . However , I excuse myself by asserting that we all need a wintertime cheer - up and also that , in England , this is the staring prison term of yr to plant bare frozen roses .

I have a list of my five tip top blush wine . These are the ones I would take with me to my desert island – even though they might not thank me at all for my consideration .

1. Rosa Penelope

A hybrid musk arise which smell like a pure summertime good afternoon . Flowers are as delicately pink as the inside of a Cowrie racing shell .

2. Rosa Scarlachglut

A bright crimson bush rose that I used to maturate as a climber nose its way around a thick wooden telephone pole . It only flowers once but leaves you with gloriously plump hips for fall .

3. Rosa Winchester Cathedral

One of those bred by the incomputable rosarian , David Austin . Pure White person and named after the famous duomo founded by Alfred the Great . It is one of his range of English Roses which add up in many size and semblance .

4. Rosa rugosa

There are gobs of these : white ones , pink ones , doubles and singles . They make bounteous hedge and are very broad of atmospherical pollution and piquant air current ( particularly useful on that desert island ) .

5.R. sericea var. pteracantha(The Winged Thorn Rose)

An oddity in that this is a pink wine grow solely for its thorns which emerge flat , winged , monstrous and translucent on the new outgrowth and glow hellfire red when backlit . The flowers are insignificant and the color fades on honest-to-goodness stems , so clip firmly and prune lowering .

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