Garden chronicles, gathering a rose garden~

The plan is made, design is sketched, ground spray painted, let the gathering begin...

David Austin's...

Abraham darby
ambridge rose
*bathsheba

 Benjamin britten
Boscobel
carding mill 2
Charles Darwin

Christopher marlowe
Claire Austin
crocus rose
Crown princess margareta
darcey bussell 2
Desdemona 4

Egaltyne

Evelyn 3

Gentle Hermione

Gertrude Jekyll

Golden celebration 2

Grace

Graham Thomas 2
Imogen 2

Jubilee celebration
jude the obscure

Lady Emma Hamilton 2
Lichfield angel 2
lady of shallot 2
Mary rose
Molineux 3

Munstead wood
old Wollerton hall
port sunlight
princess Alexandra of kent
Queen of Sweden
Ronald Dahl 2
Scepter'd isle
sophy's rose
St swithun
tess of the d'urbervilles 2
The ancient mariner
The Lady gardener
The pilgrim 2

The poets wife 2

The prince
teasing Georgia
tranquility 3
Winchester cathedral 3

Windemere 3

William Shakespeare 2000
Wisley 2008

Floribunda...

Burgundy iceberg 9
Candy cane cocktail 3
Celestial night 3
 Chihuly 6

Cinco de mayo 3
dancing in the dark 3
Day breaker 3

Distant drums 3
Drop dead red 3

Earth angel 3
Easy does it 3

Easy going 3

Ebb tide 3
*Europeana 2
First crush 3
Frieda kahlo 3

George burns 3
Gingersnap 3

*Honey perfume 4 (one)

Hot cocoa 3
 iceberg 24
koko loko 3
Julia child 3
La park 3
Le petit Prince 3
Life of the party 3
plum perfect 3
Polynesian punch 3
Pumpkin patch 3

Rosie the riveter 3
Sentimental 3
Sheilas perfume 3
St Tropez 3
Summer romance 3
trumpeter 3
white licorice 3

Hybrid teas/ grandiflora...

anna's promise
Apricots and cream
Arizona

Barone de Rothschild
Black baccarat
brandy
Chicago peace
chris evert
Chrysler imperial
*cinnamon dulce 2
Color magic
Dark night

Double delight
dream come true
ediths darling
Full sail
gold medal
Granada 2 
Grande dame

Heirloom

Honey dijon
*Madame anisette
Maurice Utrillo 6

Mon cheri
Moonlight romantic 2
*miss all American beauty
Miss congeniality
Mr lincoln 11

Nicole Carol Miller
Oaklahoma

Over the moon
Parade day

Paradise 2
pascali
peace
Peach swirl
Pinkerbelle
*Princess Charlene de Monaco
Radiant perfume
rio samba 2
Rock and roll

Rogue royal
sedona
Shirley's bouquet 2
Smoking hot
Strike it rich
Sugar moon 3
Sunset celebration
*Sweet mademoiselle
tropicana
Twilight zone

Yves paiget

Shrubs...

Austrian copper

Betty boop
Bulls eye
Easy on the eyes 2
Eyeconic melon 4

Gourmet popcorn 12
Orange and lemon
The fairy
White meidiland 3

Climbers... 

 4th of July 2red
Above all
*Altisimo 3
America 2all
Autumn sunset
 Banksaie white 3
Banksaie yellow 9
Bathsheba
 *Cecile brunner 3
Cloud 10
Eden 2sunset
Florentina
Joseph's coat
Lady in red
pearly gates
purple splash
Raspberry cream swirl

 Sally Holmes 3

 zepherine drouhin 2

ground cover...

Floral carpet pink 20
Floral carpet red 24

Floral carpet splash 5
Floral carpet white 7
Floral carpet yellow 20

Clematis...

Avante-garde 2
Charmaine
Earnest markham

H.f. young
Guernsey cream 2
Henryi 2

Killian Donahue
Montana
Multi blue 2
Nellie moser
Snowdrift
Unknown blue blue 3
Vancouver cotton candy

It's amazing how fast a garden can come together with online shopping! It's been thirty years since I put in a rose garden, of course I have favorites from the several hundred varieties I have grown over the decades, I just didn't know those few I truly coveted are no longer available... unless you get lucky! I have been shopping the same nurseries I used thirty years ago, in this day and age longevity is a rarity, but what had me tap dancing and twirling with joy today was when on a lark I found my two missing favorites in an existing nursery garden and they dug them up for me!

PURE JOY!

The unexpected really can delight~

I ADORE Evelyn, I can smell her 50' away, I heard David austin discontinued it, I am so thankful to carry her name on in my new garden.

 

Honey Dijon, the rich muddy yellow is so striking I can't imagine why it's no longer readily available, to think they dug it up for me at the same place I bought it from at least 10 years ago!

yes, there are garden angels ;-)
 

 

The new garden is a long ways off, we need water, deer fencing, structures and statues, but now is the best time for acquisition of bare root roses so I can plant them when the space is ready.  Meanwhile I have been looking fondly back at my old garden, eager to feel that first flush of spring year after year again~