Garden Layout - Plants - Roses
Due to the shortage of sunny spots in my garden, I have limited space to accomodate many roses, so the few I have all have to earn their place. There are 2 floribunda bushes, a climber, a rambler, and a tiny miniature rose grown in a pot.
This is Paul's Scarlet Climber, planted in the kitchen bed, and scrambling up the trellis work and over to form an arch at the gateway to the garden. It has been a bit of a struggle to achieve sucess with tghis rose, as it was badly affected with powdery mildew in its first year, and then rust came along in the second year after planting. Now, with the aid of regular spraying, it is flourishing. It carries literally hundreds of rich, scarlet, tightly folded flowers during June and July, and then puts on the new growth that will bear next year's flowers. It is about 2.5m high, with a spread of 3m	Paul's Scarlet Climber
New Dawn	New Dawn, with its soft pink flowers, is almost a contyinually flowering rambler, that grows in a large, 450mm pot just outside the garden gate, and is being encouraged to ramble up the wall to meet the scarlet climber over the archway. The flowers are scented, and seem to have 'bursts' throughout the year, with first flowers in June, followed by a second flush in late August, and then again just before the frosts of late October. It is underplanted with a couple of small, slow-growing trailing ivies.
This one is an old-fashioned pink floribunda that was originally in my late Grandfather's garden. I took it from his garden after his death in 1987 and it's been with me ever since, never once failing to bloom and fill the garden with its 'Turkish Delight' fragrance. It grows to about 1.5m high, and the rootstock looks to be at least a hundred years old, but it is a perpetual reminder of one of the nicest men this world has ever produced.	Grandad's Rose
Miniature Rose	Don't be misled by the near-perfection of the flowers, this is a delicate miniature red rose, a gift from me to Mrs Taz in one of my moments of temporary insanity that pass for romance. It lives in it's own pot and never gets any higher than about 200mm, but puts out dozens of perfectly-formed tiny flowers throughout the growing season. It has to be hard pruned each winter, and had a bad infection with rust for a couple of years, but it is, hopefully, fully recovered now.
This is a Tea-rose by the name of Just Joey, with salmon coloured velvetty flowers. It was another gift, from a dear friend called Jo and, like the good lady herself, is a very pretty and welcome guest in my garden. The foliage is bronzey-green and has that thick-looking toughness to its leaves, and it usually has 4 or 5 main stems, each bearing a couple of blooms about 600mm high. A favourite with the greenfly, but daily inspections during the season allow me to crush new invaders between my fingers within hours of them appearing. It's also susceptible to black-spot, which is rife in neighbouring gardens, and so I have to spray if I want to see any flowers.	Just Joey

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