Lyrics:

..."Dreaming, Dreaming Is free..." - Blondie

Jude The Obscure

Lyric:

"...You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one..." - John Lennon

Clementina Carbonieri

Portrait of Clementina Carbonieri
by Francesco Carbonieri

The Jude The Obscure looks haunted, there is an open mouth in the center. Can you see that?? :-) Halloween is coming......
They are very pretty, thanks for sharing.

Reichsprasident Von Hindenburg

Pierre de Ronsard (Eden)

Lavender Pinocchio, how I love thee.

The roses are beautiful, of course, but my favorite is the photo of Ms. Carbonieri. She looks like she deserved to have a rose named after her. Thanks for posting it.
Melissa

Those who want to fulfill their dreams must be more awake and dream deeper than others.

Karl Foerster, plantsman and garden writer

Photo from Britzer Park in Berlin with a garden dedicated to Karl Foerster and planted in his style. There is a wild rose to the right but I didn't recognize it.

"Dreams! Dreams! some may say [disparagingly]. If it were not for the dreamers, there would not be much accomplished in this world. Have a vision of the things you want to do, and then have the purpose of mind, the stability to stick at it and work it out and you will get results." --E.G. Hill, in American Rose Annual 1922, p. 129.

Capitaine Dyel de Graville is a dream of a rose, and Clementina the young lady with her sweet dog must have been a lovely reality.

E.G. Hill's quote strikes a chord with me. I cannot and will not give up my dream of a beautiful garden with roses. I'm now down to 52 in number from a high of 93, and that is all to the good. I had envisioned a paradise garden until reality and a changing climate brought that dream crashing down. However, slowly I'm resurrecting the dream, albeit in a somewhat different form, and I will not lose sight of it again.

Ingrid

Ingrid, my dear, you already have a paradise garden. It is Eden to my eyes.

Marianesse, what a beautiful photograph! Luscious greenery

Melissa, I concur.

Odinthor, my dreams are still there...somewhere

a hauntingly beautiful
Souvenir de la Malmaison

Wow! Clementina is beautiful! And the roses are awfully nice-looking also.

Thanks,
Virginia

Indeed haunting! One of the most unusual pictures I've ever seen of SdlM, and one of the most beautiful. Superb photography, mauvegirl.

Ingrid

What a beautiful woman Clementina Carbonieri was!

My plant of this rose died this spring -- not sure why. I would like to try again, perhaps in a slightly different spot. Rogue Valley has been sold out for several months. Anyone know where else I could find it? Not sure, but I think my original plant came from Vintage.

Rosefolly

Clementina Carbonieri (the rose) was a fleeting beauty here. Spectacular foliage and a beautiful, fast-growing shrub. The blooms were gorgeous, too --- as long as the temperature didn't go above 80 degrees or so. This even in a prime spot. Blooms looked good for maybe half an hour on a hot day -- I would recommend afternoon shade where it's both dry and hot, though I'm not sure even that would keep them from crisping in dry heat.

Hmm, maybe I won't bother then.

I'm reshuffling the roses that grow near 'Rambling Rector'. I could use CC's spot for one of the roses in the reshuffling process, 'General Schablikine'. RR wants to get way, way bigger than the spot I allotted for it, and you know, I think I'd like clear out the nearby space to let it do just that! Underplanted with lots of tazetta tulips, what could be a more glorious spring vignette?

Yes, dreams. Well titled.

Rosefolly