When people were talking about their favourite roses I was looking for a photo of climbing Cecile Brunner at my old house. Bit late now but I've found some. I think she is one of my favourite roses, the flower buds are exquisite, so tiny and dainty. She is growing on a tall trellis above a wall, the garden was on 3 different levels with stone walls between. The stems hung down smothered with tiny pink roses.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I've seen that photo before but it's always worth seeing again, one of the prettiest of roses as its best, as it is there.. @Busy-Lizzie The epitome of grace and elegance..
Lucky you @Busy-Lizzie you got two gardens yourself..
Actually, @cooldoc, I would much prefer to have just one garden that I could care for and plan and see in every season. It's a bit too complicated and at the moment I am missing seeing the daffodils I planted in my French garden. But OH wants to be in England. I would too but all my family are in France. The English garden isn't big and there's no more room for roses though I have squeezed in another 10 roses. Peter Beales is so near yet now, thanks to Brexit, I can't take roses back to France where I have a much bigger garden. I think I've planted 19 roses there so far. I had over 70 at my old house. Don't think I've room for that many though!
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Lots of aphids on the new potted roses in my poly, unmolested by predators, so I’m busy squishing.
Well I found the mystery bourbon @Tack, allegedly similar looking but better than MIP in terms of health and repeat, it was Deuil de Dr Reynaud. But it seems to be pretty much out of commerce so bit of a dead end, sorry.
That’s outrageous re the blatant profiteering of Munstead Wood, still can’t believe DA discontinued one of my best of their roses!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Gorgeous. My mother has four of this rose (her garden is pretty big and funny-shaped) and the sight of your old CB makes me quite homesick, @Busy-Lizzie.
I think you’d all probably guess my top 6 already.
Just purely based on which ones have grown best in my garden - I do have some that I really like the flowers of but they’re just not established well enough yet to compete with:
Malvern Hills
Rhapsody in Blue
Lady of Shalott
Kew Gardens
Ghislaine de Feligonde
And actually number 6 was harder to pick, but I’ll go for Desdemona because she does so well in the pot and brightens up the driveway!
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Some of those persicas are really nice, aren't they?
When people were talking about their favourite roses I was looking for a photo of climbing Cecile Brunner at my old house. Bit late now but I've found some. I think she is one of my favourite roses, the flower buds are exquisite, so tiny and dainty. She is growing on a tall trellis above a wall, the garden was on 3 different levels with stone walls between. The stems hung down smothered with tiny pink roses.
The epitome of grace and elegance..
Just purely based on which ones have grown best in my garden - I do have some that I really like the flowers of but they’re just not established well enough yet to compete with:
Malvern Hills