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| This month I received five new roses for my birthday from friends and family: Ambridge Rose, Darcey Bussell, The Lady's Blush, Brother Cadfael and La Reine Victoria. Several of them have started to bloom, while some other roses in the garden are starting on a second flush.
Darcey Bussell
 Brother Cadfael
 La Reine Victoria
 Princess Anne
 Scepter’d Isle
 The Alnwick Rose
 Munstead Wood
Thanks for looking! robert |
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| The Alnwick Rose is one of my favorite Austins for fragrance, it's an incredible rose. You have a wonderful collection of roses, thanks for posting your beautiful pics. |
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| Darcey Bussell is a really interesting rose with a gorgeous color. All your pictures are so beautiful. Great photography! Ingrid |
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| Hi Krista! Thanks, as always, for looking and commenting. I love the look of The Alnwick Rose, but I don't smell the fragrance the way many other people do. I think I must have a strange sniffer... I really love the fruity scents... like Jude; or the Myrrh scents, like St Cecilia; or the "old rose" scents (supposedly, that's so broad a term), like on Brother Cadfael or Sharifa Asma. I also love Bourbon roses like La Reine Victoria, which seems very strong and sweet to me. But I just don't get knocked out by the scents on many of the roses or some that are supposedly really incredible. Gertrude Jekyll, for instance... I can smell it, but it doesn't seem all that strong (this, judged on many bushes over the years), or all that remarkable. One of Austin's new roses, Queen Anne, looks really beautiful to me, the bushes in bloom at his garden were really spectacular; but when I smelled the flower my first thought was "Portland"... and I just don't seem to like it the way that most other people do. The Alnwick Rose is the same way for me. I smell it, but I can't place it. It smells botanic. It smells of fresh flowers, like at a florist's to me, but not strong, and not particularly interesting. Other people visit my garden and smell it and say "Oh, now that one I really like!", but I'd pass it by for fragrance compared to most of the other ones I grow. Odd, eh?? Can you tell me, what does it smell like to you?? Hi Ingrid. It's nice to hear from you, I always appreciate your comments, and I am flattered by you kind words on the photography. I'm finding it very interesting to have Darcey Bussell now. I've grown The Prince and William Shakespeare 2000 in California, and Munstead Wood here, so it's fun to compare them all. Darcey is brand new, and MW is only in its first year, so it's early to make judgements, but from what I've seen so far Darcey tends to have long stems with a flower floating on top while MW is more of a shrub. The flowers on MW are definitely darker and more velvety. The scent on MW is stronger to me. I suspect that Darcey will be a better repeater, it has that look to it that it will regularly produce roses throughout the season. My inexpert opinion is that MW is more closely related in form and style to old roses, and Darcey seems more modern. Out of them all, I think The Prince has the deepest purple, but MW is pretty close. WS2k is certainly the most pink of the bunch, but I always had good luck with it and would happily grow it again. Thanks for looking! cheers, |
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| What lovely birthday gifts. Darcey Bussell looks velvety. I just love all your blooms and photos. |
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| Hi Robert, Reine Victoria is wonderful... I, too, grow this, and Mme Pierre Oger, they perfume my front yard, fantastic roses. To my nose, The Alnwick Rose has a fragrance that's a mix of floral, rosewater, and a hint of fruit. It's different from some of the other Austins... Yes, even though Gertrude Jekyll is fragrant... I don't seem to find that it is more fragrant than its parent, Comte de Chambord. |
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