Just as the Rhodos and Azaleas start to fade, the baton is taken up by all the roses in the garden. The odd rose flower has been seen in May, but the main flowering period is in June with more flowers later in the year as long as I remember to deadhead the flowers regularly.
One of the first to flower is R. Regensberg which was a Mother’s Day present from our daughter many, many years ago. This photo was taken last month.
R. Shropshire Lad is a stunning rose with a beautiful perfume. We see this from the kitchen window when doing the dishes.
R. The Dark Lady who smells exactly as a dark red rose should – divine! She is much darker than the camera thinks.
R. Evelyn is just starting to open her buds, another with a gorgeous perfume.
Morning and evening are the best times to smell all the wonderful perfumes, they seem to evaporate during the middle of the day.
R. Winchester Cathedral, another with a gentle perfume.
A rose to remember dear old Geoff Hamilton.
R. Buff Beauty, this was grown from a cutting taken from one in the back garden.
Rosa Ballerina in the front garden.
Oh dear, someone forgot to prune Mdme Alfred Carriere earlier in the year, I think I will have to get the hedge trimmer out!
A climbing red which was here when we moved here, no perfume for this one though. Again, the actual rose is quite a bit darker than this.
Good old reliable Bonica is only just budding up, it is later this year than ever before.
Gertrude Jekyll has the most wonderful perfume, but it is so hot today, the perfume had evaporated by the time I took the photo, must remember to have a sniff this evening!
R. The Pilgrim, such a lovely gentle yellow, fading to white at the edges.
R. Graham Thomas, such a rich egg yolk yellow.
R. William Morris. I love all the work he did at the time of the Arts and Crafts movement.
R. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. I also love all his work in Glasgow, love his rose too!
There are still quite a few more roses to flower yet, I was quite late pruning some of them back, but they are covered in buds and should be flowering in a week or two.
The roses in full sun are suffering a bit as the heat is intense at the moment, the ones in a bit of shade are looking a lot better, thank goodness. I will be out for a wander round the garden this evening, so hopefully the perfume will have returned by then.
I love all your roses, many of them are the ones I grow. We share the same taste in roses as in many other plants. What a heavenly time of the year and what bliss to be in your own garden on a sunny June day.
Madame Gregoire Staechelin is pink, Pauline. Is that wrong labelling do you think?
No, not wrong labelling Chloris, just me getting confused again, I think you told me last year when I did the same! It is Mdme Alfred Carriere, another Madam, thanks for the correction, I have amended it!
It is a wonderful time of year, but today is just too hot, I’m staying in the shade!
They are beautiful, I can almost smell them from here Pauline !
Powys also hot: I was in the allotment this morning but am now enjoying the shade as well.
It’s dreadful isn’t it Rosemarie, the first hint of some heat and we wilt! The roses are looking happier as well this evening now that it is cooler.
Roses and June, what could be more perfect? You have such a lovely, healthy looking collection too, their perfume in your garden must be divine.
The perfume is back this evening Kate, now that it is cooler, and as you say roses and June go together perfectly.
I swear I can smell them all! I just love those old English roses, are most of them David Austin? Gorgeous Pauline, just gorgeous! I would love to take a stroll around your garden one day, especially in June. I came to roses late, now I simply can’t get enough of them.xxx
Yes Dina, most of them are David Austin roses, chosen with 3 stars for perfume! Wandering round the garden is such a pleasure with rose perfume coming from every angle, mixed with Mock orange blossom wafting on the breeze!
Gorgeous selection of roses Pauline – I can never get enough of looking at other people’s roses (But it tends to leave me with another list. In your case ‘William Morris’ and ‘A Shropshire Lad’). I envy you your hot weather. My roses are turning to mush this year.
I can definitely recommend A Shropshire Lad Cathy, a very sturdy, strong growing rose. William Morris is also a strong grower which throws out long arms and could almost be called a climber. We could do with some of your rain, it has been too long since we had a decent amount and the garden is showing it already.
Beautiful, beautiful roses Pauline. Your first sentence made me smile; here the Rhododendrons and Azaleas flower at the same time as the roses in May; I remember the first ever ‘proper’ garden I saw here had everything in flower at once (a bit like the Chelsea flower show) and I felt completely disorientated! I was also surprised by what you said about the perfume, here I find the opposite, the roses are scented during the heat of the day but often lose it in the evening.
I’m rather pleased that our flowers are more spaced out Christina, I like our 4 definite seasons. Early mornings are pretty good for perfume too, especially very early 5.30/6 am., it is such a pleasure when I wander round with a mug of tea, to smell all the roses along with mock orange blossom which wafts across the garden at the moment.
As I have not yet a single rose flowering in the garden, it was lovely this morning to see all your photos and be reminded of what is to come -I hope for flowers soon. It is only a few years ago that I became a David Austin fan and so far the ones I have are surviving the Swedish winters. They are all so beautiful that it is difficult to name a favourite DA rose but if I had to, it would be Queen of Sweden!
They will soon be with you Denise, I’m glad it’s not too cold for them in the winter in Sweden. Of course, you would have to have Queen of Sweden, essential I would think!
I love reading about roses and finding out which ones have a good scent. I often stop to sniff roses in my local neighbourhood but find many blooms look great but have no scent – such a disappointment! I’m looking forward to seeing the rose marquee at Hampton Court again this year – last year’s David Austen display was just amazing!
I’m the same Caro, what is the point of a rose without any perfume, such a disappointment when you stick your nose in and there is nothing there. I remember all the roses at Hampton Court when we went years ago, the perfume in the marquee was truly wonderful!
It’s such a wonderful time of year for roses. Even though I expect to see them in the garden I’m always so delighted by the sight of them. You have some beautiful roses growing in your garden, with some of my favourites.
Double roses aren’t the usual sort of flowers that I have in the garden Wendy, usually I make sure plants have flowers that are good for bees and butterflies. Just occasionally I buy plants just for me – like these roses! I do have a few single roses that the wildlife can enjoy along with myself.
Oh so glorious, Pauline – and with mine being on the glorious spectrum too I have a reasonable idea of what you are experiencing! You have more varieties than I have although I did a count of my roses yesterday and I have got far more than I thought I had – hard to believe that when we came there was only the Rambling Rector. I now find I am looking for places where I could plant more, particularly when I see certain vareties in other blogger’s gardens – like Shropshire Lad for example! 🙂 Even though Madame AC is the only one I need to get onto a ladder to prune, having done so thoroughly the last 2 years I would say it definitely worth the effort
June wouldn’t be June without beautifully perfumed roses Cathy! Madame AC is looking really gorgeous at the moment with all her flowers, but I really must prune her back this autumn, getting through the pergola to the veggies is getting more difficult!
Beautiful.
I’ve been misled by all the disease resistant landscape roses, and although I love their hardiness and color, when I hear you speak of the fragrance I really miss that. Maybe I need to add a nice fragrant rugosa 🙂
Yes Frank, you must have some perfumed roses, perfume brings another dimension to the garden.
There all very beautiful. I have a question a bout rose Winchester Cathedral, do think it would be good between two gardenia bushes in part shade? It is the rose I have chosen for the spot just have not purchased yet!
I think roses generally Nicole, prefer sunshine, but if you live somewhere very hot, then they would probably appreciate a bit of shade and would be ok. You might not get as many flowers as if they were in the sun, because generally they need sun to ripen the wood for the following year.
Just divine! Buff Beauty once grew over a vegetable garden fence, but she was tender. I wonder if you find her to be fragile. I tried her again in my next garden, but she did not grow with abandon as you would want! Love all of your roses!
Thank you Jayne! Buff Beauty seems very hardy to me as both my plants have survived -10C for a couple of winters many years ago. Both want to make large shrubs and have to be cut back quite hard at the beginning of spring so that they don’t outgrow their allotted space!