Six on Saturday - Roses roses and other plants

 Absolutely no rain, we are as dry as it can get, and this is 'Soggy Somerset' and mid June.   

The roses deserved a few bucket full of water over the weeks especially the newly planted ones.  I bought The Home Florist Timeless collection and they are starting to really show their colours beautifully.

1. The first of this collection to be picked is Rose Home Florist Timeless Pink. Even though not picked in bud, this bloom has lasted nearly a week, and still no sign of  shedding of petals.

Rose Home Florist Timeless Pink

The foliage is dark green and shiny and best of all disease free.  The plant is strong and stems upright, with good strong flower stems. The scent is a gentle one, similar to the scent of a Rose Scented Talcum powder, with no lemony tang. I took the rose in the vase to the garden to compare the colours, and they are the same, but indoors out of the sunlight the pink is more nuanced even to my eye, rather than just the effect of the camera.

Rose Home Florist Timeless Pink

2. Rose Home Florist Timeless Cream has not yet been cut, and I suppose to have those lovely single stemmed roses, I ought to have disbudded it.  Again the flowers last a long time on the plant, with the plant equally as strong and healthy looking as Timeless Pink.

 Rose Home Florist Timeless Cream

3. With the Cream roses in the middle it is still clear that Rose Home Florist Timeless 'Charisma' is darker that Timeless Pink, but in very much the same colour range, which  mean they would go very well together in an arrangement.

 Rose Home Florist Timeless 'Charisma'

The tacky covering on the leaves here is not due to greenfly but deposits of parts of the catkins from the large Holm Oaks that grow nearby.  

The Purple variation was planted a little way away out of the fierce burning sun and is yet to come into flower.  

4. Another new rose growing against the party fence is Rosa Malvern Hills.  At present there are just a few small stems with roses on the apex, but I guess this rose will take a year or two to bulk up.

5. Of rose colour but not a rose is this Rhodohypoxis 'Pintado'.  After a dry sejour in the shed over the winter, it is now back in bloom, still in its pot. but looking like it is ready to be potted on.  I planted another one straight into the gravel garden, and will assess to see whether it survives the winter here.

Rhodohypoxis Pintado

6.  Again in the gravel garden, which has had many sessions of dead oak tree and male catkins removal, is another rose colour plant.  I grew this one from seed gathered with my own fair hand, and is in its first flowering season, it does seem to be at home, and riding out the hot dry weather. 

Dianthus carthusianorum

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