After a few hrs searching, I think maybe the rose is Harlow Carr, it has tiny thorns rather like a raspberry, the scent is very very strong and it seems surprisingly resistant to blackspot, in which case it maybe mayflower.
If you scroll down you will find several Damask Roses that also fit the bill. I'll try and get some more photos today. I hate not knowing the name of something, especially when the scent is so strong everyone coming to my door always comments and asks what it is as they usually want one too! It would be nice to be able to tell them.
Wow - the Delphiniums have now really come into their own (they were a bit before their best at Chelsea). Love that deep blue at the front. Never been to GW live - is it any good John ?
Really enjoyed the show, particularly the RHS Flower pavilion. Main GW show halls were Nos. 17 & 18 and were very interesting but along one side there were a whole host of stalls that were nothing at all to do with gardening (selling everything from shoes, hats, dresses [for the ladies I might add], beads & bangles etc. As always food & drink at the show was expensive though there were a few stands where you could buy a reasonable size cup of coffee for less that £2.00 (just!). The GW Live tickets gave admittance to the GW & RHS halls and also to the BBC Good Food show which was in the adjacent hall 19 which was a bit of a bonus except that we paid them a visit which meant we missed a bit of the GW show gardens as we had booked seats at Matthew Biggs/Anne Swithinbank's Question time @ 1.15pm and Duimid Gavin's talk on his gardens at 4.00pm. Just a tip if you go by car, the car park is £10.00 & unless you have a car full it pays to park in [if it's free] or near a railway station car park and take the train which goes right in to the NEC. As an example the fare from Tile Hill, Coventry (around 8 miles away) is about £1.50 [possibly less if you have a railcard]. I certainly felt it was worth it and it made a great day out but my leg muscles are telling me I walked too much yesterday! John H
Sorry for the extra pic, finally figured out how to stick photos from flickr onto my posts, loads easier than this forum, drag and drop pics to the flickr page, can rotate resize everything. If you have yahoo or hotmail google etc mail account, signing up is like 3 clicks!!
Beautiful rose Ben, wish I could smell it. Love the blue of the aquilegia.
It really is very strong too, I'm around the side of the house sorting my raised beds and it's all I can smell especially after the rain. The wind changes direction and then all I can smell is the 'Blue for you' which has a very strong citrus almost lemon scent. Once the marigolds and canlandula are all in instead of the tulips, I'm hoping the scent will be strong enough to keep the carrot fly from detecting my nantes. They are also sown with a double row of spring onions right around the perimeter!
I figured it, but then I thought you knew about my cross-dressing at the weekends! I can send you some seed from the aquilegia if you like BL, they should be the same colour as all the ones next to each other are that colour!
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After a few hrs searching, I think maybe the rose is Harlow Carr, it has tiny thorns rather like a raspberry, the scent is very very strong and it seems surprisingly resistant to blackspot, in which case it maybe mayflower.
http://www.davidaustinroses.com/english/searchlist.asp - take your pick!
If you scroll down you will find several Damask Roses that also fit the bill. I'll try and get some more photos today. I hate not knowing the name of something, especially when the scent is so strong everyone coming to my door always comments and asks what it is as they usually want one too! It would be nice to be able to tell them.
PS GG you don't live in Litchard do you?
ok I'll try using flickr!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/97420766@N07/9030543989/
Link to stream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/97420766@N07/with/9030543989/
Lovely Delphs and Lupins there John, I wish I could have gone, but work and my daughter's 2nd Birthday party put paid to it for this year.
DSCF1737 by BrummieBen, on Flickr
Sorry for the extra pic, finally figured out how to stick photos from flickr onto my posts, loads easier than this forum, drag and drop pics to the flickr page, can rotate resize everything. If you have yahoo or hotmail google etc mail account, signing up is like 3 clicks!!
Ok here's a pic of the T&M rose Blue for You
DSCF1749 by BrummieBen, on Flickr
DSCF1752 by BrummieBen, on Flickr
When the buds appear they don't look at all blue,
DSCF1762 by BrummieBen, on Flickr
Some marigolds
DSCF1763 by BrummieBen, on Flickr
DSCF1765 by BrummieBen, on Flickr
My lupins, not as good as the NEC but not too shabby!
DSCF1768 by BrummieBen, on Flickr
DSCF1769 by BrummieBen, on Flickr
my aquilegia
John beautiful plants.
Bev your garden is just full of colour
Beautiful rose Ben, wish I could smell it. Love the blue of the aquilegia.
It really is very strong too, I'm around the side of the house sorting my raised beds and it's all I can smell especially after the rain. The wind changes direction and then all I can smell is the 'Blue for you' which has a very strong citrus almost lemon scent. Once the marigolds and canlandula are all in instead of the tulips, I'm hoping the scent will be strong enough to keep the carrot fly from detecting my nantes. They are also sown with a double row of spring onions right around the perimeter!
That should have been BEN your garden is full of colour not Bev
I figured it, but then I thought you knew about my cross-dressing at the weekends! I can send you some seed from the aquilegia if you like BL, they should be the same colour as all the ones next to each other are that colour!