This has to be the best year I can remember for roses with the cool nights keeping them in peak condition for much longer than usual, as well as pleasingly pest and disease free. I don’t think of my garden as majoring on roses, but with them all out at once there are far more than I realised. This is a selection of them. If there is a garden near you that is known for its roses, this is the year to get out there and admire them – and smell the roses of course.
Cardinal Richelieu
Gloire de Dijon
Hybrid Tea
Rosa de Rescht
Darcy Bussell
Gertrude Jekyll
Hyde Hall
Self seeded Cooper Burmese
Mme. Gregoire Staechlin (I think – a cutting I took from churchyard)
Thomas Graham
American Pillar
Not sure which this one is
Verschuren – with Variegated leaves
Veichenblau
Buff Beauty
Felicite et Perpetue
Another mystery rose
