Lovely roses, I am eagerly awaiting the news that DA is open to the public again it’s a wonderful day out. I want more roses for 2021 but I need to see them up close before I choose.Â
I have been to DA’s Debs - it’s a grand day out and the teas are pretty good too! Bit too far away for a day visit though so I have to rely on the website. Such a shame they’ve not felt able to reopen for visits.
This is my favourite DA rose at the moment - Roald Dahl - compact and healthy. Not sure the colours are reproducing accurately. It’s an orangey bud opening to an apricot bloom which fades through yellow and then cream. Lovely form and sweet scent.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
@Topbird I am lucky enough to live fairly close usually manage a couple of trips each year at least. Food is delicious and the gardens are beautiful and nothing beats seeing and smelling roses up close. I always admired one rose in the gardens but it wasn’t available to buy there or featured in the catalogue. My daughter got me a bare root specimen for Mother’s Day this year it’s a favourite. Lochinvar, small pale pink flowers very thorny but the scent is fantastic.Â
TBird ,that is a lovely rose .I am going to look at that online . Debs Lochinvar sounds good I love perfumed roses . Last year I bought two white ramblers . They haven’t flowered yet .I am looking forward to seeing them blossom . They are Rambling Rector .
Afties all. Had a nice visit with the rellies. Plenty to catch up on. It was lashing down when I left home but dry in Warrinton. Ruby, your garden is a gem! So full of colour. I will give some thought to what this afternoon has in store in terms of gardening here. Hedge is still too wet to cut after this morning's deluge.
I remember taking my Mum to DA, many moons ago. We had a lovely day out there.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
Afternoon All, it’s become quite warm in the sunshine now, T’bird your MIL will enjoy staying with you and having a change of scenery, I hope they have a safe journey back to yours. Rubee what beautiful roses and  the fuchsia, they are gorgeous colours in your garden. Not very brave with growing roses, lovely to see them looking like that.Â
Your photos reminded me of the wild fuchsias that defy the weather here. This a very old one at the edge of the back field. As it shows, the gales had stripped it of leaves etc but suddenly it is full of flowers.
That is the direct north facing/ocean. Next stop the US. The battered stone wall is at least 150 years old, and yes, a stray lupin in the jungle..
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This is my favourite DA rose at the moment - Roald Dahl - compact and healthy. Not sure the colours are reproducing accurately. It’s an orangey bud opening to an apricot bloom which fades through yellow and then cream. Lovely form and sweet scent.
T’bird your MIL will enjoy staying with you and having a change of scenery, I hope they have a safe journey back to yours.
Rubee what beautiful roses and  the fuchsia, they are gorgeous colours in your garden. Not very brave with growing roses, lovely to see them looking like that.Â
That is the direct north facing/ocean. Next stop the US. The battered stone wall is at least 150 years old, and yes, a stray lupin in the jungle..