I’ve had a bit of a blogging break for report writing and have been enjoying spending my free time doing the #30daywildchallenge. However, I haven’t written a 6 on Saturday post for a few weeks so I thought it’s time to share what is happening in the Old House Garden!
This week I thought I would showcase some of my roses that are just beginning to flower and they are looking glorious! We created a Rose garden last Autumn so I’ve been waiting to see how it gets on. Well, it’s looking amazing and the roses are beginning to fill the space with such a lovely smell. Here are some of the flowers growing in the Old House garden right now and it’s all about roses!
1. David Austin Olivia Rose.
2. David Austin The Generous Gardener
3. David Austin Felicite Perpetue.
4. Rose Handel.
5. David Austin Francesca
6. Wild Rose
These are my 6.
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These are so lovely. I used to grow Felicite Perpetue when I had a big enough garden to accommodate lots of roses. Takes me right back to those days!
Yes, it’s already grown quite large! I want it to cover a wide archway.
Beautiful roses, some unusual colours.
Yes, the Handel is lovely.
Lovely roses. Great to know your rose garden is doing well!
It really is, thank you. I think it was the horse manure that I packed in!
And here I am about to go out and choose roses for several areas in the garden here. Divine yours are, simply divine!
Thank you. I especially love Olivia Rose and it smells divine too!
I need to navigate different plants here. It’s quite the adventure as we set about renovating the yard ….
Oooh but the choices! Have fun!
We are. New England is different to England, of course but not so different that I am not eagerly lapping up your lovely pictures and when you have time, your advice too 🙂
Ask away lovely. I shall always help if I can. x
Thank you so much 🙂 x
All so different, all beautiful!
Thank you Gill. Do you have any of these varieties?
So healthy and beautiful! I can smell them from here. Some day I may grow roses beyond the few climbers, rugosa and shrub ones here. Oh and ONE David Austin which is not looking a great this year.
Thank you for sharing – I am a rose addict. If I had to choose a favourite from yours I think it would be the Generous Gardener.
Oh I love roses too and Peonies of course! I love Olivia Rose -its so compact and a profuse flowerer.x
Goodness, you do have a wealth of beauty in your garden, Sophie. Peonies are my favourite and the sight of yours is sublime. xx
Thank you lovely!
I love Felicitie Perpetue, but the thorns are pretty fierce! I’ve got one growing up an obelisk – this year I cut down almost to the ground because it was tangled and messy, and it has covered the obelisk again within a matter of weeks.
Ah that’s good to know June as i’m Going to have to chop it back next year.
This is my kind of Six on Saturday; highlighting six flowers of a category. However, I will try to be more creative in the future, with a variety of other plants. I do not know what either of those unidentified roses are, but they are my favorites of these six. ‘Handel’ looks like a floribunda, but without sideshoots. I like the flower because it is shaped like a hybrid tea rose. I wol dnot have a clue about the rambler.
I not particularly creative then….. but I do love this 6. I think Handel is my favourite. I have a Rosa mundi just about to flower at the front of the house and that is a beauty but i’ll Save that for next week.
Not particularly creative? It shows what the flowers look like up close, and if it accomplishes that in a different manner than what the rest of us are doing, then it is creative.
Beautiful Six. They’re all gorgeous but my vote would go to Generous Gardener if I could only choose one. I love pink roses but when I planted mine I was working to a colour theme (abandoned shortly afterwards!).
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Gosh, those are beautiful.
Thank you. Aren’t they?
Beautiful roses!! I have a few beneath my window and this year one of the bushes is tall enough to see their roses. I’ve always wanted a rose garden xx
They are gorgeous and such a special English flower. X
Those are so wonderful! Shame the blog post doesn’t come with scratch and sniff 🙂
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Now THAt would be amazing wouldn’t it!?
I absolutely love the white rambler! #AnythingGoes
We love roses and headed recently to Mottisfont to see the National collection of heritage roses. Yours are coming on very well! #AnythingGoes
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OOh lovely roses. I hope to visit soon too. x
Roses are Best if they Smell.
Shakespeare had it right.
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