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marina_bonomiI thought I didn't like roses.
If I was given some I always appreciated the thought behind the gift more than the gift itself; my favored flowers were others: peonies, some tulips...roses were too 'queen of flowers by tradition', they felt very 'selected' and somehow as overbred as any champion Persian cat, one turned into a fragile thing without a nose and the other into a plastic-like overperfect flower without any smell.
'A rose with any other name'? Poor Will would have a bad surprise nowadays.
And yet, mother would go starry eyed speaking about the great rose bushes in the parks of the old villas near her childhood home, and wax poetic about their wonderful scent and how those plants prospered in the shade, just to end with a sigh and a shrug about the need modern roses have for a lot of sun, which our garden, esconced whitin a grove and exposed North, definitely doesn't have.
" I wonder which kind of roses they were" she used to conclude, wistfully and consoled herself with buying cut roses when she found some she liked.
And then I happened to read The Morville Hours and there, in a single wonderful chapter, I discovered that not only old roses are still around but quite a few of them do well in shade or half-shade, and, even more, most of them have a fairly strong scent.
...And they are my kind of beautiful.
Since then mother and I have been on the hunt, looking for specific books, searching for Old-Rose nurseries on the net, deciding on varieties, and places.
Now the holes have been dug, the order has been made, and we received words that our 'old ladies' will be sent within this week.
A couple of Albas:
Great Maiden's Blush is, very likely, Botticelli's rose.
Celestial need I say more?
And three Gallicas:
Complicata (the reason of the name is a mystery), this one will be trained climb on an old trunk with an interesting shape.
Rosa Gallica Officinalis aka 'the Apothecary Rose' and 'the Red Rose of Lancaster' , possibly the oldest cultivated Gallica
La Belle Sultane my personal favorite at the moment
I can't wait.
If I was given some I always appreciated the thought behind the gift more than the gift itself; my favored flowers were others: peonies, some tulips...roses were too 'queen of flowers by tradition', they felt very 'selected' and somehow as overbred as any champion Persian cat, one turned into a fragile thing without a nose and the other into a plastic-like overperfect flower without any smell.
'A rose with any other name'? Poor Will would have a bad surprise nowadays.
And yet, mother would go starry eyed speaking about the great rose bushes in the parks of the old villas near her childhood home, and wax poetic about their wonderful scent and how those plants prospered in the shade, just to end with a sigh and a shrug about the need modern roses have for a lot of sun, which our garden, esconced whitin a grove and exposed North, definitely doesn't have.
" I wonder which kind of roses they were" she used to conclude, wistfully and consoled herself with buying cut roses when she found some she liked.
And then I happened to read The Morville Hours and there, in a single wonderful chapter, I discovered that not only old roses are still around but quite a few of them do well in shade or half-shade, and, even more, most of them have a fairly strong scent.
...And they are my kind of beautiful.
Since then mother and I have been on the hunt, looking for specific books, searching for Old-Rose nurseries on the net, deciding on varieties, and places.
Now the holes have been dug, the order has been made, and we received words that our 'old ladies' will be sent within this week.
A couple of Albas:
Great Maiden's Blush is, very likely, Botticelli's rose.
Celestial need I say more?
And three Gallicas:
Complicata (the reason of the name is a mystery), this one will be trained climb on an old trunk with an interesting shape.
Rosa Gallica Officinalis aka 'the Apothecary Rose' and 'the Red Rose of Lancaster' , possibly the oldest cultivated Gallica
La Belle Sultane my personal favorite at the moment
I can't wait.
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Date: 2009-03-03 08:05 pm (UTC)Be warned, I'm a certified 'brown thumb', fortunately it looks like one needs a bulldozer or a bomb to kill most old roses (fingers crossed).
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Date: 2009-03-04 04:08 am (UTC)Yay, roses!
Date: 2009-04-18 03:37 am (UTC)Good luck with your new roses!
Re: Yay, roses!
Date: 2009-04-18 04:34 pm (UTC)These five are an experiment, if everything goes well (as it looks like, they all have 'taken') we'll plant more next year.
I have a 'shortlist' a few miles long: more albas, more gallicas, but also damasks and centifolia and species roses ('botanical' as they call them over here), rosa rugosa is definitely in. Will you post some photos when your rugosas bloom?
Re: Yay, roses!
Date: 2009-04-18 06:26 pm (UTC)I may post photos of my rugosas later. It depends on whether I can get my partner to photograph them for me -- he's the one with the electronic camera.
Re: Yay, roses!
Date: 2009-04-19 01:58 pm (UTC)I'll look forward to seeing your rugosas, if our partner has the time and the inclination, of course. :-)
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