Thank you @JessicaS, I have learnt from experience to go for the darkest colours possible as I do get fading here in the summer sun. Middling colours can look horribly washed out. I have a fair number of new white/blush roses this year though, I like the contrast. However, I do get swarms of pollen beetles from the nearby fields and they do mar the white blooms. I have to shake them off to sniff or photograph!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Marlorena, had to get down on my knees to to take a photo of Mme. Antoine Mari’s bloom, shook of the pollen beetles and most of them ended up on my face and down my t-shirt!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@AlliumPurpleSensation .. lovely photos and such vigour on that Eyes For You.. quite charming with the dog in the picture..
I've been wanting to see Sir John Mills... not one I know at all..
Thankyou. Woody has a habit of being in my favourite photos.
Sir John is improving each year and beginning to properly climb. I hope it will look as good as it did in the Hampton Court display where I bought it from x
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..as I'm typing this, I just found one on my glasses... as I've just come in from the garden..
.. lovely photos and such vigour on that Eyes For You.. quite charming with the dog in the picture..
I've been wanting to see Sir John Mills... not one I know at all..
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Woody has a habit of being in my favourite photos.
Sir John is improving each year and beginning to properly climb. I hope it will look as good as it did in the Hampton Court display where I bought it from x