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The Blackthorn Garden: Roses, first flush Summer 2014

19/12/2014

 
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^  I've nosed out a couple of sexy obscurities like this locally-bred Hybrid Tea, Royden.  Notionally, I hate yellow roses but there I was, planting yet another one.  You probably won't believe me but it was the scent that made me its bitch; it's stuffed with ripe fruit and pettigrain and attar.  Utterly majestic.
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^  The delightful Jacqueline du Pre.
>  Golden Wings.   A very healthy, graceful single.

Last year marked a massive rose-buying spree and the garden is now heaving with them. 

They're spilling out of every corner, crowding out the silverbeet in the kitchen garden and cage-fighting with the perennials in the raised beds.
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^ Rugosa Kordes Robusta detail.
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^ A massively underrated Austin rose, The Endeavour.  Huge cupped pinky golden chalice-like blooms oozing a warm fruit fragrance on a healthy, upright bush.  Fuck yeah.  Get one today. >  
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^  A lot of people turn their noses up at Rugosas, but I can't get enough of the spiky little bitches.  This is Blanc Double de Coubert; she's posher than you.  Deal with it.  

>  This is Glamis Castle.  It's a petite, twiggy little thing so far and a tad blackspotty, but to be fair, the weather's been completely shit.  If you like myrrh, GC is for you.  The blooms are thickly-scented and peony-shaped in a beautiful floaty ivory shade.  Probably my favourite white rose.
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 BELOW Benjamin Britten: fruity.  And rusty this year.
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^  Rugosa Roseraie de L'Haÿ.
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^  Mary Rose, another good Austin and another superstar that seems to be taken for granted.  I find her incredibly beguiling; she's one of the first modern roses to go balls-out with the flowers and their musky myrrh scent drifts over half the garden on a still day.  There is something very romantic about her blousy, whorish profusion.
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>  Rugosa Agnes.  She comes but once a year, but she does it in almost 100% shade and never bothers me for anything.  You've got to love that.
<  Errr... erm... some sort of Bourbon.  I bought three or four pinks and lost the freaking tags right off the bat, dammit.  Great perfume, though still too small to say much about its constitution.
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< Sharifa Asma.  Groaning with buds this year.  Primo scent.
ABOVE Summer Song, a newish Austin.  A bit fucked up by the constant rain, but it doesn't ball so I forgive. Great exotic fruit scent.
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^ Golden Celebration; lives up to the name. 
> & BELOW: Paul Gaugin, a nice little floribunda.  The stripes are a little more tasteful than usual and there really is a modest scent.  Wonders will never cease.
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ABOVE RIGHT  Ellen, a nice, if slightly gangly, Austin with a rich fruit/soap scent
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< Evelyn, another Austin stunner.  The scent is definitive expensive rose soap.

And finally bellow, some oldies and goodies.  

BELOW LEFT  The venerable Bourbon climber Zéphirine Drouhin.  Divine perfume, happy in a shitty dry position and yields a nonstop profusion of slightly unsophisticated lolly-coloured blooms.  All this rain's given it a bit of black spot, but nothing major and she's chugging along nicely.  A quick fix for an ugly corner.  Highly recommended for the doofus/novice grower.  
BELOW RIGHT  The eternal Rose de Rescht.  Elegant emerald-green bulletproof bush topped with a frilly float of glowing magenta goodness.  Highly scented, another forgiving candidate for the beginner.

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