Roses

I love roses. I am slowly turning the garden into a rose garden. Maybe one day I'll be one of those single-plant-obsessive bores on Gardener's World. Actually, no, I won't. Roses need lots of different plants around them and that should keep me sane.

All these pictures were taken this summer. I do deadhead the roses to keep them flowering (despite it seeming a bit rude to the plant), but sometimes I like seeing the mix of new and faded flowers together. Most of the roses are mixed in with honeysuckle, raspberries and grape vines. They seem to do well like that!

Multiple orange roses together on a tall branching stem, sprinkled with bright raindrops
A cascading composition of three pink roses running from high at the left to low on the right, with green leaves behind
A bright orange rose just opening, sprinkled lightly with diamond-like raindrops
A fully opened orange rose, petals shading to salmon in some places and pink in others, with many sparkling raindrops
Two pale pink and white roses fully open so you can see the yellow centres within, all sprinkled with raindrops
A sunlit centre of a white single rose, petals radiating out from the yellow centre with dark red anthers
A wet tightly petalled globe rose flower covered in rain
An incredibly bright pink/red/cerise rose close up, a glimpse of yellow anthers in the centre
A close cropped photo of a wet pink rose, looking like ruffled silk covered in glass beads
The back of a pale yellow rose covered in beads of bright raindrops
A close cropped photo of the centre of a yellow and pink rose. The anthers crowding around the central cluster of pale yellow stamens
A close crop of a pink classic rose just opening, so the budded petals form spirals around the centre of the image
An out of focus rose with an in-focus selfie. I'm looking down towards the camera and so is the rose