Climbing rose Peach Melba, her petal colour softening as autumn creeps in. In these fractious times, the regular rhythm of #RoseWednesday is a calming highlight. Take care everyone. 🌱

Blue skies and a fresh breeze heralding the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. The #roses keep on coming: Kathleen, Felicia, The King’s Rose. Cyclamen popping up everywhere! Have a good week everyone, take care. #autumnequinox #CheeringUpMondays 🌱

Farewell Summer 2025. Tomorrow is the autumn equinox. 🍂 #roses 🌱

Clementina Carbonieri - just keeps on flowering. Ballerina hips, aka heps or haws. The tiny blooms of hybrid musk Callisto. Prosperity, hybrid musk. Happy #Friday everyone, have a good weekend! Take care. #roses 🌱

#ThrowbackThursday to summer ‘25. Centifolia Christata, Old rose. You’re My Everything, Rose of the Year 2025. Moments and Memories, Persica Hybrid. The King’s Rose, English shrub rose. Have a good day everyone, take care

‘Gardenia’, large Wichuraiana Rambler Rose. Robust, healthy, moderate fragrance. seen at @RHSWisley Happy #RoseWednesday everyone, have a good day. #roses 🌱

That was windy! Half expected Hayling Island to have drifted out into the Solent! Sweet Pretty and Prosperity somehow managed to hang onto their petals. ‘Tis calmer today, hope so for you too. #roses 🌱

Sunny #roses to brighten up a stormy weekend. Eye of the Tiger, Persica Hybrid; Francesca, Hybrid Musk; The Poet’s Wife, English Rose; Danae, Hybrid Musk. Whatever the weather, have a good weekend everyone, take care. 🌱

#ThrowbackThursday Meteor, For Your Eyes Only, It’s A Wonderful Life, Peach Melba. All former Roses of the Year. Have a good day everyone, take care. #roses 🌱

A few rosy treasures spotted RHS Wisley last week. Bright & Breezy, Simply the Best, Frau Dagmar Hastrup hips, Mrs Oakley Fisher. Have a good #RoseWednesday everyone, take care. Dark skies & sudden heavy showers here in the south, I must not complain about the rain! #roses 🌱

Soft light & long shadows, it can only be #September. Peach Melba, Cornelia, Felicia, Clementina Carbonieri, a joy to find on my morning wander. What delights await in your garden? Have a good week everyone, take care. #CheeringUpMondays #roses 🌱

Coral Gardens, Rose of the Year 2026. Bare root and potted plants available late autumn. 🌱

You’re My Everything, Rose of the Year 2025, seen yesterday in the Bowes Lyon Rose Garden RHS Wisley We visited the #RHSFlowerShow Lots of fab indie nurseries & temptation! 😍 On ‘til Sunday! Recommended! Happy #FlowersonFriday everyone, have a good day. #roses 🌱

‘Lady of Shallot’ looking serene before the arrival of ‘false autumn’. Blustery winds, rain, flying petals and leaves, crab apples plopping on the ground, seems very much like proper #autumn! Happy #RoseWednesday every one, have a good day, take care. 🌱

First day of #meteorologicalautumn But #astronomicalautumn isn’t until 22 September, so we can pretend it’s summer for a few more weeks. Whichever seasonal calendar you prefer, have a good week, take care. 🌱

Last day of Meteorological Summer ‘25. It’s A Wonderful Life. Pearl Abundance. A Whiter Shade of Pale. Perle d'Or. #roses 🌱

Might have mentioned we were desperate for rain… not any more! Torrential downpours last night. Won’t be needing to water pots today! Have a good weekend everyone, take care. Coral Gardens, Rose of the Year 2026 (before the rain). #roses 🌱

It has been a good year for #roses in this garden. Long established & at their best in May/June, they haven’t minded the dry weather. Some late-season blooms just appearing. The arrival of much-needed rain is welcome! How have your roses fared? #ThrowbackThursday 🌱

Penelope, Hybrid Musk #rose with crabapples and raindrops. We had rain! For all of 3 minutes! We are promised more! Happy #RoseWednesday everyone. Hope you all get the weather you want/need. 🌱

Three #roses for #PinkFriday ‘Eustacia Vye’, English rose, ‘Moments and Memories’ Persica hybrid, ‘Louise Odier’, Old rose. Have a good #bankholidayweekend everyone, take care. 🌱

‘For Your Eyes Only’ Persica hybrid, a former Rose of the Year, bred by Chris Warner. Cloudy grey skies, breezy, humid… August is running out of steam. Have a good day everyone, take care. #RoseWednesday 🌱

Pearl Abundance. Bred by Harkness. Floribunda. Free-flowering, lightly scented, glossy foliage. Cooler weather for many of us, but where’s the rain? Will probably regret saying that in a few months… Have a good week everyone, take care. #roses #CheeringUpMondays 🌱

With eternal gratitude, marking the 80th anniversary of VJ Day. Rosa ‘Eternity’, Rosa ‘Pax’, Geranium ‘Sabani Blue’. 🇬🇧 #VJDay80 #Peace #roses 🌱

Yesterday was #InternationalLefthandersDay! We use our secateurs upside down (yes I know you can get left-handed ones), slice bread at a wonky angle & overcome other obstacles in a right-handed world, so here’s a #rose for all us #southpaws! ‘It’s A Wonderful Life.’ 🌱

Past. Present. Future… Peach Melba, Rose of the Year 2023. You’re My Everything, Rose of the Year 2025. Coral Gardens, Rose of the Year 2026. Have a good day everyone, take care. #rosewednesday #roses 🌱

A few ‘oldies’ - #roses that is, for #CheeringUpMondays. Francesca, hybrid musk, 1922. Pax, hybrid musk, 1918, both bred by Pemberton. Crepuscule, Noisette rose, Dubreuil, 1904. Mrs Oakley Fisher, Tea/old HT bred by Cant, 1921. Have a good week everyone, take care. 🌱

Soft pink #roses for #PinkFriday Felicia hybrid musk, slow to re-flower this year. Sweet Pretty shrub rose, has re-flowered quickly! Wildeve, English rose, can be a bit faded in the sun, but this bloom is perfect! Three stages of Elizabeth, English #rose Have a good day! 🌱

Petite and pretty ‘Perle d’Or’. Miniature Tea Rose. Apricot buds fade to pearly-cream when open, the flowers are held on long, wiry stems. Light Old Rose scent. Rambaub, 1843. Happy #Thursday everyone, have a good day, take care. #roses 🌱

New this year from David Austin ‘The King’s Rose’ - we like it, wonder if the King does too? Earwig optional! It’s a fine and still morning here on the south coast, almost a feeling of early September… Have a good day everyone, take care. #RoseWednesday 🌱

Lovely ladies - Desdemona and Wildeve, English #roses If you were in the path of #StormFloris hope your homes and gardens aren’t too battered.Thankfully the forecast is for calmer and brighter weather. Have a good day everyone, take care. 🌱

Let’s have some vibrant colour for what promises to be a wild and windy day for many here in the UK. Coral Gardens, Rose of the Year 2026 (available this autumn) and Burgundy Ice. Have a good week everyone, take care, stay safe. #roses 🌱

We had 25mm of rain yesterday! The ground is appreciative, #roses are a bit bedraggled & shallow-rooted plants are perking up! Lady of Shalott, It’s A Wonderful Life, Mrs Oakley Fisher shrugged it off. Wildeve - before the rain, she gave up & dropped her petals! Have a good day everyone. 🌱

‘Indian Summer’ fragrant, healthy hybrid tea #rose ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ fragrant, healthy hybrid tea /shrub rose. Both bred by Colin Peace. Thunderstorms forecast for us today, we really do need the rain. Have a good day everyone, take care. #roses #bloomscrolling 🌱

Hello my lovely! Rose of the Year 2025 ‘You’re My Everything’. Happy #RoseWednesday everyone, have a good day, take care. 🌱

Meteor, looking rather splendid! 😍

Last week of July already, summer is galloping along. Let’s have some #yellow #roses to brighten an overcast day. Callisto, Mrs Oakley Fisher, The Poet’s Wife, Honey Bee Mine. Have a good week everyone, take care. 🌱

Our annual ‘pilgrimage’ to see this coastal garden. #SundayBlue #Agapanthus 🌱

Pax aka Peace, hybrid musk #rose bred by Pemberton, introduced in 1918 marking the end of WWI. Semi-double, creamy white, scented ruffled flowers. Repeat flowering. Dark foliage. Useful as a shorter climber. So many troubled places in the world are desperate for #peace - now. Take care everyone. 🌱

#ThrowbackThursday? Not today! We’re going for #roses & #livinginthemoment ! A third flush of flower on ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’. ‘Burgundy Ice’, hasn’t stopped flowering since it was potted a few weeks ago. Have a good day everyone, take care, stay safe. 🌱

‘Coral Gardens’ Rose of the Year 2026. Bred by Kordes. Bare root and new potted plants available from this autumn. Cooler here today, slim chance of rain… Happy #RoseWednesday everyone, have a good day, take care. 🌱

Raindrops on #roses - haven’t said that for a while! It’s A Wonderful Life & Coral Gardens. We’ve had over 6 hours of much-needed steady rain. If you needed it, hope you got some too. Have a good weekend, take care. 🌱

Ballerina, she just keeps going; the pleasingly varied petals of The King’s Rose; pink-flushed Peach Melba. We’re optimistic for overnight rain… whatever the weather, happy #pinkfriday everyone, have a good weekend, take care. #roses 🌱

#ThrowbackThursdays 2019, our last appearance at RHS Hampton Festival of #Roses with Sweet Honey, ROTY ‘20. #rose exhibitors were dropping out, July is an awkward time to be away from a rose nursery. For many reasons, it was time for us to leave the party too. Have a good day! 🌱

Four lovelies for #RoseWednesday Louise Odier, Bourbon, Clementina Carbonieri, Old Tea, Burgundy Ice, Floribunda - a little wind-battered, Moments & Memories, Persica. We had a light sprinkling of rain on St Swithin’s, so does that mean…? Have a good day everyone, take care. 🌱

‘St. Swithin’s Day, if it does rain,  Full forty days, it will remain.  St. Swithin’s Day, if it be fair,  For forty days, t ‘will rain no more. We shall see… 🤔 Have a good day everyone, take care. ‘The King’s Rose’, bred by David Austin. #StSwithinsDay #roses 🌱

We’re here to enthuse about #roses but giving over our little #rosy space to share this news. The challenges specialist rose & plant nurseries face are mounting, if they are to survive they need our custom & support. They are the lifeblood of British 🇬🇧 horticulture. 🌱

Vive la France 🇫🇷 ‘Bonne Fête Nationale!’ Princesse Charlene de Monaco (Meidysouk) Repeat-flowering Hybrid Tea #rose Fragrant, fully-double blooms, healthy foliage. Bred by Meilland in France. Grown in the UK 🇬🇧 #BastilleDay #roses 🌱

Danae and Callisto, hybrid musk #roses bred by Pemberton. ‘Danae, a mortal princess and the mother of Perseus. Callisto, a nymph or princess, transformed into a bear, becoming the constellation Ursa Major.’ Your Greek mythology lesson for today! Stay cool! #SundayYellow 🌱

For #pinkfriday ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ - well, she is in her pinkish phase. She is also healthy, fragrant and repeat-flowers freely. Tis going to be a very warm weekend for many of us in the UK, take care everyone, stay cool, stay safe. #roses 🌱

#ThrowbackThursday to July 2015. The Festival of #Roses & Rose of the Year 2016 ‘Sunny Sky’. Recall we had been worried that it wouldn’t flower in time. Not sure why we’re hanging on to the dray, no chance it was going to roll away! Happy days. Take care everyone, have a good day. 🌱