30-OCT-2015
The Himalayan Musk rose
A vigorous scrambler with vicious hooked thorns can reach 12 metres in height...and ours is climbing a tree from the Himalayas - a large cedar tree. Here is a small sample of
it in bloom. At present, in our autumn, there are bunches of vermilion oval-shaped hips extending from each cane. As one drives in our front gate this is what we see in spring.
Discovered circa 1823
30-OCT-2015
"Tamora" in full flight
I have a couple shrubs of this rose... its rather a prickly bush, but there's no
shortage of blooms throughout the season as seen here.
Alongside is a sprig of "Anne-Marie de Montravel", a little polyantha rose that
grows on the border of this rose bed.
17-OCT-2015
A rambling rose on one of the trellises
There was a rambler known in South Australia as Katie Pianto’s Rose, is actually a seedling from Katie Pianto’s garden, a garden of a very special lady no longer with us.
This rose, probably a chance seedling, has both ‘Indica Major’ and R. multiflora in its ancestry and in Sydney is known as the “The Balmain Rose”. In South Australia it is called
“The Katie Pianto Rose” after the person who brought cuttings of this beautiful plant to our part of the world. David Ruston’s plant started life under an old walnut tree
which has long since died, fallen over and been smothered. Notes from "Help me find" an online site.
Often a rose is named after the place it was found…… or after the original garden owner as with Katie Pianto’s rose.
Thank you re all the hopes that we were okay in last night's storm.. although I didn't get
to go back online, we did have a storm go through and heaps of rain fell. No trees fell over, but there is some work to do on our drive-way that got washed out badly.
26-OCT-2015
A few days later
This photo was taken a few days after the previous shot that featured the
gazebo... obviously I'd been doing some weeding and should have moved the
evidence out of view... but as it'll be quite a few months until it will
look anything like this again, it'll have to do.
01-NOV-2015
Morning sunlight in the garden
A lovely time of the day for the fragrances - this photo was taken
from under a huge cedar tree.
01-NOV-2015
Close to the gazebo
A couple of roses that reside near or on the gazebo, e.g., Elmshorn and Francis E. Lester
seen here flowering together. Elmshorn is like a small tree, height 2 metres width about the
same. Francis E. Lester is a fantastic climber, very easy to train, though only flowers
in spring, there's no repeat, but there are hips in the autumn.
01-NOV-2015
The morning walk in the garden
Lovely to see the garden in spring, always the best display and the leaves
are freshly opened and new. We have a good ecosystem going to look after
any aphid or thrip... a predatory wasp that lays eggs in the body of the
offending aphid that hatch and eat the aphid from the inside leaving just
a shell.
01-NOV-2015
Seat in the gazebo
A favourite spot for an afternoon coffee... the chair is tied to the lattice
so it won't blow over in the wind and get damaged. Pots of colour on the
outdoor table are various succulents, mainly Kalanchoe...
The two out of focus roses are "Elmshorn" (red) and "Francis E. Lester" (mainly white)
01-NOV-2015
Another spot on the top pathway
Roses in the foreground are "Lady X" on the left, "American Heritage" on the right with "Silver Jubilee" just behind AH. In the far distance is Mount Lofty.
01-NOV-2015
From one of the top paths
Foreground yellow rose is "Gold Bunny", the pink one is "The Reeve", and you can
see some hanging baskets in that wooden structure which is also supporting
the climbing rose called "Phillis Bide". Tall rose on the left is "Elina"
14-NOV-2015
Looking to the North
This is a view you may get if you're walking past our place this time of year
you can't see much of the rose garden at all and you wouldn't even know it
was there if it weren't for the flowers on the weeping rose (Crepuscule) which
in this photo has just finished a flush of blooms.
Luckily this photo was taken before we just had 2 scorching days of high 30's
and some parts of our state of South Australia had a temperature of 45dC!
(dC = degrees Celsius)
01-NOV-2015
Looking to the south
I'm standing in the lowest section of the garden looking back at
the gazebo where you can see part of a couple of huge shrub roses
and a section of the golden elm tree which is now back in leaf.
