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Re: Self care by growing a garden

Wow @Smc You are into your roses Smiley Happy

I am a late comer to roses as I was having my anti middle class tanties for a while.  When you were not a nice or superior or respectable person if you did not talk roses.  I wanted to talk HABITAT, but eventually I succumbed ....

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It has a scent. We have a wonderful rose garden close by, so one does not need to own the land and plant the bush to appreciate them, but I have now.

 

Re: Self care by growing a garden

@Appleblossom, I've got a selected few roses in the garden, and also bits of it set aside as habitat (back boundary near the creek that runs behind our place). Doesn't need to be one or the other. 🙂

I guess I've never seen roses as a middle class thing. My family was more working class, but we and lots of our garden-keen family friends had roses. A couple of friends who were farmers had a beautiful big flower garden including lots of roses around their farmhouse with a good fence keeping the sheep in their rightful place. They've now semi-retired into town, and still have lots of roses.

 

Mum and Dad were really seriously keen gardeners. They got catalogues in from various specialist nurseries and were friends with specialist gardeners. So the ones in Mum's garden include some popular roses, and some unusual and interesting species. She's got a "Reine des Violettes", which is an old 1860s variety, and which I want to get a growing piece of. I've got another old one that Mum gave me growing here- "Anais Segales", an 1830s pouffy pink rose that's flowering like mad at the moment, then won't flower again until next spring.

 

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Re: Self care by growing a garden

@Smc It sounds really lovely as a country thing.  I really like that you have both.Smiley HappyHeart

I grew up in mostly earth challenged environments.  There was one country orphanage, but a lot of boarding houses and flats etc.  SO I also did not have much know how ... when I got married.  

A fellow who chatted up all the ladies, was a keen gardener, delivered lots of cut flowers from his own garden to my doorstep and eventually  I succumbed Heart  to the flowers tho not to the man ... he is a good friend tho Smiley Happy ... its a post 45 yo thing ...Woman Embarassed

 

Re: Self care by growing a garden

'Lamarque' Rose (Rosa x noisettiana cv.)I have Lamarque rose, which is an 1830's (very old) Climbing Noisette Rose.

It's my only surviving Heritage (Old World) rose.

I used to have lots of different Heritage roses (especially Rugosa roses). They all died eventually, & I haven't replaced them.

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Re: Self care by growing a garden

They both have very dense petal clusters. 

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Thanks for helping me through my rose thing.

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Re: Self care by growing a garden

Glad to be of service @Appleblossom. 🙂

 

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Re: Self care by growing a garden

Home from holidays and on the way back we stopped and picked up some Mexican orange blossom (Philadelpus Mexicanus) and plumbago (Plumbago 'Royal Cape') plants.  Not fancy but solid performers which if they thrive will continue to form the basis of our garden leaving a few spots for some more special plants. 

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Re: Self care by growing a garden

@Appleblossom carpet rose

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Re: Self care by growing a garden

Thank you

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@Smc @Former-Member @Shaz51

 

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