Come into the Garden; I'd like my roses to meet you.

The reason I work and fuss is in progress. First Full Flush. I've got a few of my darlings to share with you.                                      

Tradescant is an obscure David Austin shrub rose. It has stayed on the small side for me, but it blooms its heart out all summer.

This lovely bourbon is very independent and doesn't appreciate attention. My kind of rose. I mislabled her, she is Marcheness of Londonderry.

Pure Poetry is a smallish floribunda. It doesn't grow well and is fiercely armed with thorns and prickles and no fragrance. Little wonder it isn't available anymore. That said one would be hard pressed to find anything comparable to this rose's form or color.

Love and Peace is a Hybrid Tea with a faint vanilla scent. This one has a mounding growth habit with good rebloom.

Heirloom is a Hybrid Tea which blooms like a tall floribunda. The scent on this one is marvelous and heady. I brought this one from California when we moved. It literally grabbed me by the nose as I passed it by in the store. I had no intention of buying a rose that day, and it's been with me ever since. I highly recommend this rose and will always grow it.

 This rose had an identity crisis for a number of years. It was found all over the country and given different found names until the Heirloom Rose society finally settled on Barabar Worl. I bought in memory of my grandmother as Grandma's Hat.

Boy was I confused when the name thing came up.

Eglantyne is another lesser know David Austin rose. It is almost always the first one to bloom for me in the spring. I love everything about this rose, except for the sparce rebloom.

Not roses. I'm very pleased with this layered effect by the pond. At the front is white potentilla, juniper's beard and then Barberry.

Thanks for joining me in the garden.