Day 274: Rose 'Scepter'd Isle'

Things have taken a turn for the inclement over the past day or two…

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Day 251: Rose ‘Gentle Hermione’

A hot day – proper, sunny summer stuff – and the garden is starting to flag a little…

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Day 167: Rose 'Lady of Shalott'

Arriving fashionably late, my ‘Lady of Shallot’ rose has graced the border with a bloom or two, just in time to catch the end of the wallflowers and some of the geums…

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Day 5: bare-root roses

They don’t look much just now – a bundle of prickly sticks with a tangle of brown roots….

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