And it looks like it going to be a bumper one! First to bloom in my garden this year was one of the ‘Peach Profusion‘ standards in the front garden yesterday.
‘Peach Profusion’ starting to open, with a green tinge still on the outer petals
It was closely followed this morning by the ‘Iceberg‘ standards (who are usually the first), and the ‘Eyes For You‘ shrub rose.
I’m so excited for what’s to come!
** This series of posts were written when the garden beds were planted in late Spring (November) 2013, but I never got around to uploading them. I’m posting them now so you can see what eventually went into them, and I will do a ‘1 year on’ update this Spring to show how they’ve grown.**
Bed 5
This is the second last of the ‘proper’, brick-edged planting beds. It edges the top lawn in the backyard. Like all the beds before it, it started out full of white river pebbles, weedmat and terribly compacted soil which the weeds wouldn’t touch anyway. Here’s a reminder of what we had to work with:
Planting Bed 5 after the pebbles and weedmat were removed
Welcome to Part 2 of my visit to the National Rose Trial Garden in Adelaide, South Australia. You can view Part 1 here.
I actually didn’t take note of the names of many of the roses I photographed, but I don’t think they’d be very hard to track down if any caught your eye in particular. And of course many were just numbered, as they were the 2013 entrants in the trial. Continue reading
It’s no secret that I’m a lover of roses, and I have long wanted to visit the National Rose Trial Garden in Adelaide, South Australia. This garden is where new-release roses to the Australian market are voluntarily and anonymously tested in our unique conditions for one year, and the top performers are awarded medals, trophies and certificates. Continue reading
I have quite a few ‘favourites’ in the garden, but top of them all are roses. The first rose I ever grew was the grandiflora rose “Queen Elizabeth”, which was given to me by a dear friend to start my garden at the old house. I was quite sad to leave her behind when we moved (the rose, not the friend). Here are some pictures of the Queen Elizabeth flowers taken at the previous house:
Queen Elizabeth blooms in a vase
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