Things are looking pretty Rosy right now

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)

Graham Stuart Thomas

American Pillar

Not sure which this one is

Verschuren – with Variegated leaves

Veichenblau

Buff Beauty

Another mystery rose

Felicite et Perpetue