So I planted me a Rose Garden (allotment) with 28 bushes

[LaurieFairyCake]

at the end of last year and you were all very interested. Pic on profile of the first Roses - got about 40-ish more buds. Bushes still obviously very small - about 18 inches high and I can't cut 'leggy' roses yet as they are still too compact but I can cut them and have them in tea cups this year.

They are very, very, very scented - every time I walk past these 7 I get a waft of old rose fragrance.

I'm so impatient for them to grow, I want hundreds of flowers - every time Monty says he's off to pick some roses for the house I get very

[BobbiFleckman]

how lovely. Mine came out really late this year, and the very morning after I had delighted in them coming out and looking wonderful, a bloody muntjac came adn stripped the lot. All the buds. I am mentally thinking up venison recipes.

[LaurieFairyCake]

Good gravy, muntjac eat Roses - bastards! hmmmm, yummy venison.

[gatheringlilac]

Laurie, what are the names of the roses in your picture? And which are the loveliest fragrance-wise?

I'm at the start of a rose-quest and would love some pointers. though I have been haunting the David Austin website and our local garden centre.

Also, I've promised my daughter that I'll plant a rose that will climb to her bedroom window. Any advice? She likes pink, fragrant roses.

[WynkenBlynkenandNod]

They look lovely. I want to grow some flowers for cutting on the allotment in amongst the veg next year. Hadn't thought about roses, what a lovely idea.

[LaurieFairyCake]

Gathering - the one in the bottom left fully open is called Savoy Hotel - amazing, old Rose fragrance and completely perfect blooms.

The darker pink in the middle is Mme Abel Chateney - strong, almost perfume like fragrance.

I think the other is Julias Rose - it's supposed to be a parchment colour though it's come out a bit darker - maybe because it's the first year?


What about St Swithun climbing - I saw it at RHS wisley and it was stunning

[gatheringlilac]

Thank you, Laurie.