I used to post photos of my garden and join in with the threads like Garden Gallery but then this site was updated and my poor Internet couldn't cope with photos and I couldn't see many that people posted. Now my Internet has been updated, not that good but much better than before.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Sounds as if I have similar conditions and climate to you, Busy-Lizzie, plus tropical-style downpours in summer (usually, but drought conditions at the moment) but you still manage to grow gorgeous roses! Although Lady Em had a brief showing a few weeks ago, here is my first proper bloom this season, Kew Gardens:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I've never got Kew Gardens to flower before 11 May Nollie... you must be a full month earlier than us.. but I think this year I'm looking at end of April unless we get a really cold snap.. like snow at Easter, which wouldn't surprise me at all.
A Shropshire Lad is such a beautiful rose.. I wish I had room for it... I think it's very low thorn too..
..that's ok, we don't mind... it all goes with roses... besides it's quite exotic looking, I get lots of moths but nothing with those colours that I've seen... I usually get ones called 'Silver Y'.. I think it is..
As we're on a yellow-y green-y sort of theme, with Busy Lizzie's gorgeous Pilgrim rose,..'KG' and the moth... here's one of mine from last year..
'Lady Hillingdon'... a Tea rose bred in England in 1910 as a small shrub rose, but 2 years later it 'sported', as we talked of earlier, to a climbing form, which is much the better of the two roses... we don't breed Tea roses in England these days [not to be confused with hybrid tea, which is different]
Named after Alice, Lady Hillingdon... she wrote in her diary... "I am happy now that Charles calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old. As it is, I now endure but two calls a week and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs and think of England."
I wonder if many of us ladies will relate to that...
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I used to post photos of my garden and join in with the threads like Garden Gallery but then this site was updated and my poor Internet couldn't cope with photos and I couldn't see many that people posted. Now my Internet has been updated, not that good but much better than before.
A Shropshire Lad is such a beautiful rose.. I wish I had room for it... I think it's very low thorn too..
'Lady Hillingdon'... a Tea rose bred in England in 1910 as a small shrub rose, but 2 years later it 'sported', as we talked of earlier, to a climbing form, which is much the better of the two roses... we don't breed Tea roses in England these days [not to be confused with hybrid tea, which is different]
Named after Alice, Lady Hillingdon... she wrote in her diary...
"I am happy now that Charles calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old. As it is, I now endure but two calls a week and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs and think of England."
I wonder if many of us ladies will relate to that...
Beautiful on a wall,.. tricky on a fence...