Today we’re headed to Kerala, India, to enjoy some beautiful blooms from Sreeja Sarathkumar’s rose garden.
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The Portland Rose Jacques Cartier is one to seriously consider.
If you are considering replacing roses which have past there best it is essential that you lift the old soil and replace with new topsoil.
Roses never grow well again in the same spot unless you do this. If you like the old-fashioned look, Portland rose Jacques Cartier is one to seriously consider.
Allan Titchmarsh once named this one as his favourite rose. There is a bit of confusion as to the actual identity of this rose, some saying that it may be identical to ‘Marchesa Boccella, Whatever the case may be, this is a fine pale pink Portland Perpetual.
It grows to around four feet tall. It is a shapely shrub that is well covered with extremely healthy, dark green foliage. Blooms are fully double, sometimes showing a button eye at the centre, also has a lovely fragrance.
Hardiness – Fully hardy
Position – Full sun
Today we’re headed to Kerala, India, to enjoy some beautiful blooms from Sreeja Sarathkumar’s rose garden.
Hey Freinds! I’m so glad that you are here. I am so excited to share this project with you. Don’t you just love a cottage in the English countryside covered in roses? Me, too! Today, I am going to show you how I created a rose trellis for the gable above my front door. Let’s go!
Tom Sterenberg is sharing some photos today of roses he’s grown in the sometimes difficult climate of the Canadian prairie.
These Rose Color Houseplants represent the famous hue of rose in the magnificent shade of red-pink. Grow them in your rooms for the awesome colors!
Perhaps not known for his greenfingers, it seems apt to quote the musician Paul Weller, who in 1978 gave us the great lyric ‘No matter where I roam, I will return to my English rose’. Because no matter how many other garden plants come and go, the popularity of the garden rose never seems to diminish. You might not see many in a Chelsea Flower Show garden but us gardeners know some good plants when we see them and roses regularly top polls for the nation’s favourite flower.
Roses love the sun. Find a location that receives as much sun as possible. A couple of hours of shade in an afternoon or a spot with light shade might not hurt the plant.
The Rose Remember me an excellent hybrid tea rose which is very beautiful as a specimen or for bedding. Bred by Cockers in 1984, parentage=Alexander x Silver jubilee.
Adam Messerich a bourbon shrub Rose bred in Germany in 1920 by Peter Lambert.
Penny Lane a really good climbing Rose which has performed very well every Summer in our garden for the past eight years.
One extremely floriferous HT Rose that does not have blooms the size of dinner plates is the Laura Anne Hybrid Tea Rose
Rosa Mundi an exquisite old Rose with a history going back many centuries.
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