This is a mix of plot and garden contributions today. The roses, pale Chandos Beauty and red Fragrant cloud are plot dwellers and in their first year. The smell is just amazing and so far the rose Fragrant Cloud seems much happier in Sunbury (no accounting for taste!) which may mean many more blooms. I’ve been lax with dis-budding CB but the upside is that there are just three stems in this vase.
The salvias are from the front garden. The dark purple is Royal purple and the pink/lilac is Long sugar.
Ramble along to Cathy’s to see the rest of this weeks’ vases.
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Beautiful roses especially ‘Chandos Beauty’. I’ve read a lot singing this roses’s praise but have never seen it in the flesh. Are they salvias that you have snuggled in to keep the roses company?
Yes, there are salvias. If you only have space for one rose it would have to be this one.
The roses are absolutely gorgeous, Sharon. Sadly, I’ve relatively few roses left as they want more water than I can generally give them.
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Thanks Kris The roses did suffer the last few years with the heat but we seem to be back to a standard English summer!
Absolutely lovely combo of roses and salvia.
So beautiful, I wish I could smell them!
Very beautiful roses. Lovely arrangement. I imagine the fragrance is divine. I’m very fond of salvias, such good workhorses.
Very nice roses, but I am a salvia girl and I love that pink one! It’s sooo pretty!
Very pretty Sharon – I tend mot to put roses in my vases, but whether that’s because there is always something else or because I am not sure how well they’ll last, I don’t know> Ironically, it was something I was considering for tomorrow’s vase!! I have not come across Chandos Beauty before – is it a new variety? Love the salvias, especially the pink one
Thanks Cathy. Chandos Beauty isn’t a David Austin rose. I purchased from Harkness roses. As well as lovely it’s tough. They have been transplanted three times, approximately at 5 year intervals. I find my cut roses last 5 days in the vase, which seems reasonable.
I had to smile at you transplanting your roses – I have a tendency to do that too! I do realise I am probably restricting myself unneccessarily by always going for David Austin roses in the first instance. Mind you, I am not sure I can squeeze any more in at the moment!