It is all about the Roses

 

It is all about the roses right now that are blooming in my Rose Garden. Splashes of color and scent is everywhere in it today.

The Rose Garden is rather new yet in terms of years but it is filing in more every year.

Walkers Low Catmint blends in amongst some of the rose bushes as a companion plant as does Dianthus and Gaillardia.

The Yellow “Sunny Knockout” Rose look so pretty with the blue of Catmint blooms.

One of my first and oldest rose bushes is this “Crimson Bouquet” Grandiflora rose. I talk a lot about it every year about this time because it is my favorite, the hardiest and the most aromatic of all my roses. It throws up bloom all summer into fall until the frosts.

I also just love the shape of this rose and you can dry the petals for the best smelling potpourri for winter fragrance in the house. I have also dried bouquets of it for some winter color. So you can see why it is a favorite of mine.

 
Just in front of the Crimson Bouquet is a striking rose that is in its second year in the Rose Garden. “Mustard and Ketchup” is a bright red with yellow under-petals so its name is appropriate.

It really clashes with the pink knockout roses though. LOL!
The Pink Knockout rose bush may have to be moved. I am always moving and rethinking the flowerbeds. Poor plants.

But the “Bill Warriner” Floribunda rose is a runner up and fast becoming another favorite. A compact bush and disease resistant.

It is a blooming machine and its beautiful deep peach color and petal shapes make it a beauty. The blooms last a long time and keep their color with a light scent.

“Burgundy Iceberg” is a lovely rose with a slight fragrance and it looks wonderful planted beside the….

“Melody Perfume” Grandiflora rose which is a lighter burgundy color. It has a light Damask fragrance.

(A Night Picture)
Again the Walkers Low Catmint blooms are companions for it.

“Easy Does It” Floribunda is another rose that loves to bloom away all season long. Its petals run from orange, coral and to a deeper orange color all mixed into one bloom. It has a fruity fragrance.

 
I have it planted beside the cream colors of the …

Gruss an Aachen” Antique Floribunda roses.
The cream and blues tame the bright colors in the Easy Does It roses.

Gruss an Aachen has a wonderful fragrance.

The New Improved Red “Blaze” Climbing rose has a pretty red bloom but it only blooms once for me so I delegated it to spot out of the Rose Garden. I like roses that bloom more than once since my property is small and I do not like to waste the space.

White “ Iceberg” Floribunda roses give me three flushes of blooms throughout the season and I love those white petals.

When the cool weather comes they for some reason it cause a pink tinge to the edges of the petals. Although I love white blooms in the garden this rose bush does tend to get black spot every year which I have to fight against.

“Bella Roma” is a Hybrid Tea and is lovely but it is stingy with the blooms after the first flush of blooms.

I did have on disaster in the Rose Garden this winter.

My “Double Delight” got froze and reverted to its grafted partner Dr. Huey and I now have not this beautiful Multicolored bloom but…

now only have an all red Dr. Huey rose. This has happened to me before with a yellow Irish Rose  after being frozen at the graft. I should do better with protecting my roses especially in winters where there is no snow cover to protect them from the freezing temperatures. Roses are often grafted into Dr. Huey rose stock and eventually Dr. Huey is going to win out and those red cane suckers are going to appear. It is a pretty red rose but not what it was with the Double Delight graft.

“Music Box” is a hardy shrub rose with pink and yellow blooms and deep green foliage.

“Morden Blush” is the first to bloom and is still blooming away.

And then there is “Lavender Simplicity” hedge roses.

New from last year is “Pink Lemonade” Eyeconic roses.

“Scentimental” Floribunda rose bush with its wacky red and white patterns in the petals and blooms.

“Sky’s the Limit” is a lovely yellow climbing rose.

It will throw up a few blooms throughout the season after the first flush of blooms in the spring.

Knockout roses which some rose gardeners do not care for but I love them for their constant blooms all season. I have them on pink…

Red

“Sunny” Yellow

and a yellow and pink “Rainbow”.

“New Dawn” a climbing rose covers the old garden shed with its pale pink blooms.

In a few days the shed will host hundreds of these blooms because it is loaded with buds.

So there are a few of the roses in my rose garden with the exception of a couple who are later and now just forming buds.
I see the lilies are budding and will also soon be blooming along the woodland bed.
Color, color everywhere this time of the year. A flower gardeners delight.
What is blooming in your garden?

Happy Gardening,

Lona