There are still some roses in the old rose garden at Great Dixter. He liked roses, just not as monoculture and it's true taht growing to many together invites pests and diseases.
I have Teasing Georgia, Sceptr'd Isle and Generous Gardener roses still flowering well. Clematis Princess Diana, Sunset, Nelly Moser and Rahvarinne have flowers on them too. I have a home sown white agapanthus which is flowering strongly and pots of acidanthera and persicarias, rudbeckias, Japanese anemones, pensemons and verbena bonariensis if flower..
More seasonal stuff is the winter flowering jasmine and hardy cyclamen plus, as I found today, the first of the snowdrops are out.
No doubt tomorrow I'll find more in flower when I tackle other parts of the garden - in between baking chocolate cake and biscuits for our Viennese waltz class in the afternoon..
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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..I was just going to mention that obelixx and was looking for this thread... I notice they do still have a few roses in their exotic garden and others too presumably as they sell some on their website.... this was Mr Lloyd's reputed favourite rose and they still sell it.. being a single it wouldn't be to everyone's taste. They have a good range of plants...I'm considering ordering a few...no idea what they're like to order from...
..I should add too, that it's this type of historical connection...the original plant came from Vita Sackville-West's garden that makes rose growing so interesting..where you have history and romance in these older roses....
...perennials and exotica can look spectacular but they lack what I call chemistry, ,,,,grace and history that's so often associated with growing roses...
..very nice too and so frilly... not one I know, but if you like other frilly type roses then you might also enjoy one called 'Fimbriata'.... it's a Rugosa type with a good scent, and disease resistance... an offspring of the better known Mme Alfred Carriere...
..frills add a touch of charm I think..don't you...?
..you don't often hear of people growing late flowering clematis theses days...like Tangutica or orientalis 'Bill Mackenzie'... I wonder if they might still be in flower..? it always come as a surprise when you see them in full bloom...
I have a Red Ballon clem which has one or two flowers left but most are over and have become lovely silky seed heads. It starts flowering in June and the bees love it.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
my Bill McKenzie finished ages ago but Freckles looks to be almost ready to flower. It is growing up into a wisteria much to my OH's disgust because it upsets his pruning. You have to look up into the flowers wghich are stunning against a blue winter sky.
This was taken a few years ago.
My Mahonia is also a mass of colour and much loved by the blue tits who eat the buds! They can't eat them all because there are always lots of berried in the spring which the blackbirds love!
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There are still some roses in the old rose garden at Great Dixter. He liked roses, just not as monoculture and it's true taht growing to many together invites pests and diseases.
I have Teasing Georgia, Sceptr'd Isle and Generous Gardener roses still flowering well. Clematis Princess Diana, Sunset, Nelly Moser and Rahvarinne have flowers on them too. I have a home sown white agapanthus which is flowering strongly and pots of acidanthera and persicarias, rudbeckias, Japanese anemones, pensemons and verbena bonariensis if flower..
More seasonal stuff is the winter flowering jasmine and hardy cyclamen plus, as I found today, the first of the snowdrops are out.
No doubt tomorrow I'll find more in flower when I tackle other parts of the garden - in between baking chocolate cake and biscuits for our Viennese waltz class in the afternoon..
..I was just going to mention that obelixx and was looking for this thread... I notice they do still have a few roses in their exotic garden and others too presumably as they sell some on their website.... this was Mr Lloyd's reputed favourite rose and they still sell it.. being a single it wouldn't be to everyone's taste. They have a good range of plants...I'm considering ordering a few...no idea what they're like to order from...
http://www.greatdixter.co.uk/nursery-catalogue/products/rosa-mrs-oakley-fisher/
..I should add too, that it's this type of historical connection...the original plant came from Vita Sackville-West's garden that makes rose growing so interesting..where you have history and romance in these older roses....
...perennials and exotica can look spectacular but they lack what I call chemistry, ,,,,grace and history that's so often associated with growing roses...
that's gorgeous Salino and similar in style, if not in colour to my favourite Summer Wine which I have in the garden
though it is a tad more frilly!
..very nice too and so frilly... not one I know, but if you like other frilly type roses then you might also enjoy one called 'Fimbriata'.... it's a Rugosa type with a good scent, and disease resistance... an offspring of the better known Mme Alfred Carriere...
..frills add a touch of charm I think..don't you...?
My white winter flowering heathers are flowering too.
..you don't often hear of people growing late flowering clematis theses days...like Tangutica or orientalis 'Bill Mackenzie'... I wonder if they might still be in flower..? it always come as a surprise when you see them in full bloom...
I have a Red Ballon clem which has one or two flowers left but most are over and have become lovely silky seed heads. It starts flowering in June and the bees love it.
my Bill McKenzie finished ages ago but Freckles looks to be almost ready to flower. It is growing up into a wisteria much to my OH's disgust because it upsets his pruning. You have to look up into the flowers wghich are stunning against a blue winter sky.
This was taken a few years ago.
My Mahonia is also a mass of colour and much loved by the blue tits who eat the buds! They can't eat them all because there are always lots of berried in the spring which the blackbirds love!