For the first #RoseWednesday of the year: ‘Coral Gardens’ Rose of the Year 2026. Have a good day everyone, take care out there. 🌱

‘Frosty Mornings’ a repeat flowering, scented rambling #rose. Grows to approx 12ft. Outstanding health. Bred by Davide dalla Libera, at Novaspina, Italy. Introduced in the UK by Warners Roses, available from Pocock’s Roses - www.garden-roses.co.uk Have a good day everyone, take care! #roses 🌱

Not much to see in the garden in the way of #roses at the moment, so trawled through our pic archive to find an old friend - ‘Mrs Oakley Fisher’. Old Tea Rose, bred by Cant, 1921. Happy Friday everyone, have a good day, stay warm and take care. #fridayflowers 🌱

A ‘Champagne Moment’ for the New Year! Hope 2026 is all you want it to be. Our best wishes for good health, happiness and fortune. Marilyn and Ian, Roses UK. #NewYear2026 #Peace #rosesuk #roses 🌱

For the last #RoseWednesday of the year: You’re My Everything’, Rose of the Year 2025. A bright, frosty morning here on the south coast - so much nicer than rain! Have a good day everyone, keep warm, take care, stay safe. #newyearseve #roses 🌱

Anyone for ‘Peach Melba’? Climbing rose, free flowering, light fruity scent, healthy foliage. A former Rose of the Year. I do believe it’s Monday! Have a good day, take care. #roses 🌱

‘We wish you a Merry Christmas and A Happy Year…’ 🎶 🌱

Sending warm wishes for a wonderful Christmas. Thank you all for the follows, likes & reposts, your continued interest is much appreciated. We’re passionate about #roses, rose breeding & British growers, & next year will be no exception! Marilyn & Ian, Roses UK. 🌱

Counting my blessings, the dullest of mornings, - but at least it’s not raining! Apart from endless crabapples, there isn’t much colour in the garden now, so flashback to September. Felicia, Prosperity, Danae & Penelope - obliging hybrid musk #roses. Have a good day everyone. 🌱

Tis the Winter Solstice, one of the oldest pagan celebrations, marking the shortest day & the longest night. Coincidentally, it is also the 4th Sunday of Advent, celebrating Hope, Peace, Joy & Love. However you mark the occasion (or not) have a good day, take care. Hybrid musk rose Pax. #roses 🌱

‘… A curse is on her, if she stay Her weaving, either night or day,To look down to Camelot. She knows not what the curse may be; Therefore she weaveth steadily, Therefore no other care hath she,The Lady of Shalott.’ Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Rose of the same name, David Austin Roses. #roses 🌱

‘Rosa Mundi’ and ‘Rosa Centifolia Christata’ for #PinkFriday Have a good day everyone, take care. #roses 🌱

‘Deck the halls with boughs of holly…’ 🎶 Well, ferns, pittosporum and rose hips actually, all foraged from the garden. Have a good day everyone, take care. #gardens #roses 🌱

Chawton Cottage’ scented, climbing #rose bred by Harkness and named after the Hampshire home of novelist #JaneAusten Today marks the 250th anniversary of her birth. #JaneAusten250 Have a good day everyone, take care. 🌱

Blush Noisette, Crepuscule and Cornelia valiantly flowering on a damp December morning, soft sunlight breaking through the clouds. Have a good day everyone, take care, stay safe. #roses 🌱

‘You’re My Everything’, Rose of the Year 2025. Happy Friday! Have a good day everyone, take care. #roses 😎

Pantone have announced #colouroftheyear 2026: Pantone 11-4201 Cloud Dancer. Described as ‘billowing white imbued with a sense of serenity’ & other baffling phrases. Confused? Me too! In the spirit of serenity here’s Rosa ‘Iceberg’ with mandevilla & agapanthus (varieties unknown). #RoseWednesday 🌱

Calming white #roses for #CheeringUpMondays. Rambler ‘Gardenia’, Floribunda ‘Diamond Days for Ever’, Hybrid Musk ‘Prosperity’, English Rose ‘Desdemona’. For many of us, the weather forecast over the next couple of days is anything but calm. Please take care. 🌱

It’s grey and drizzly so let’s have some #SundayYellow #roses Golden Celebration, Honey, Bee Mine, Abbeyfield Gold, The Poet’s Wife. Hope your day is going well, take care. 🌱

Probably the last rosebud of the season: ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’. We have a brief respite from the rain and the wind has veered to the west, so not quite so chilly. Whatever your weather, have a good day, take care. 🌱

Moments and Memories, Persica Hybrid and You’re My Everything, Rose of the Year 2025. A chilly and bright morning - which is lovely. Rain later - not so lovely! Have a good day everyone, take care. #roses 🌱

Monsoon-like downpours & the gravel paths in this garden are resembling shallow streams. Too easy to feel despondent, will divert myself with pics from late May. Hybrid musk #rose Penelope, laden with bloom. Have a good day everyone, stay dry. #roses 🌱

Autumn Delight, Lyda & Pax planted bare root last weekend. Ground was soft, while tottering about on my painted-purple walking boards (recycled from panto scenery), felt I was in danger of toppling into the planting holes. The perils of #rose planting! Have a good #RoseWednesday take care! 🌱

You are My Sunshine, bred by Fryer, and Golden Beauty, bred by Kordes. Both seen at @RHSWisley in June. Have a good day everyone, take care. #roses 🌱

First day of meteorological winter and it’s wild, windy and wet. Not the best pic, but had to record hybrid musk #rose Cornelia’s last hurrah of the season. She’s a trooper! Have a good week everyone, take care. #cheeringupmondays 🌱

Last day of November & meteorological Autumn, which has galloped by. Last blooms of the season from Clementina Carbonieri, Vanessa Bell & Lady of Shalott, all grown in pots. Will cut them back today to encourage them to hibernate for winter. Have a good day. #roses 🌱

#ThrowbackThursday A rummage through the pic archive, reminds me that my own garden is at its very best in early June. What about yours? Hybrid musk roses: Felicia, Cornelia, Ballerina. Erigeron. Have a good day everyone, take care. #roses 🌱

It’s that time of year when we need to dive into the archives for #RoseWednesday inspiration. It’s A Wonderful Life, Peach Melba, Burgundy Ice, The King’s Rose. Have a good day everyone, take care, stay warm. 🌱

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It’s a tough market for traditional magazine publishing. We’re long-term fans of professional editing, photography & print, hence our sponsorship of the GMG Features Photographer Award. Delighted to present the award to Marianne, have long been an admirer of her work. #gmgawards 🌱

Throwback Thursday to June, #roses and a few peonies to warm up a frosty morning. Have a good day everyone, take care. 🌱

Hot stuff to warm up a chilly Monday! Meteor, For Your Eyes Only, Coral Gardens, You’re My Everything. Former, current or forthcoming #Roses of the Year. New season #bareroot or newly potted plants available now from nurseries and garden centres. 🌱

#barerootrose season has begun! We are pleased to support & promote British Rose Growers, particularly indie nurseries: Trevor White, C&K Jones, Pococks, Eastcroft, Cottage Memories, to name a few. Use them - don’t lose them! 🌱

We love browsing images & stories on social media, but we’re big fans of traditional print media too, so it’s a pleasure to again sponsor the Garden Media Guild ‘Features Photographer of the Year’ award. Good luck to the finalists, hope we get to meet at The Savoy next Friday! 🌱

Persica hybrid #rose ‘Eye of the Storm’. Seems an appropriate choice as #StormClaudia makes her presence felt. Take care everyone. #roses 🌱

At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month – we will remember them. #ArmisticeDay 🌱

With gratitude to those who served. #Remembrance 🌱

#ThrowbackThursday to June and a quartet of colourful roses. Precious Love, Flower Power Gold, Lady Adriana, Eustacia Vye. Just what’s needed on a grey & damp November morning. Have a good day everyone, take care. #roses 🌱

Raindrops on roses for the 1st day of #November Vanessa Bell, English Rose. Clementina Carboneri, Tea Rose. Damp and breezy with fleeting sunshine for us in the south. Have a good weekend everyone, whatever the weather. #roses 🌱

‘Coral Gardens’ Rose of the Year 2026, bare root and newly potted plants now available from nurseries, garden centres and online. #RoseWednesday Have a good day everyone, take care. 🌱

Here we are, back to Greenwich Mean Time, the light fading as the sun sets before 5pm. Who else, beside me, will still be in the garden, bumbling around as dusk falls? Head torches at the ready! ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’. #roses #grownbyme 🌱

Tiny perfection: Lyda. A bushy shrub to 1.2m in height with mid-green foliage and single, lightly-scented white flowers edged with pink and with a central boss of golden-yellow stamens, flowering from summer into autumn. #roses 🌱

Rescued from the rain. Left: Burgundy Ice, next to The King’s Rose. Top left: A Whiter Shade of Pale. Top right: Mrs Oakley Fisher. Bottom right: Felicia. Let’s start a different hashtag: #grownbyme Have a good day! #roses 🌱

Before the (much needed) rain arrives… Burgundy Ice, Lady of Shalott. Have a good weekend everyone, take care. #roses 🌱

For #RoseWednesday ‘You’re My Everything’, Rose of the Year 2025. 🌱

Perle d’Or. Dwarf Polyantha #rose bred by Rambaux. Miniature Tea Rose with a light old rose scent. Apricot buds, fading to soft white when open, held on wiry stems. Have a good week everyone, take care, stay safe. #roses 🌱

Happy Sunday! The roses keep flowering, here is Rosa 'For Your Eyes Only' basking in some soft October sun. @rosesuk.bsky.social #Garden #Gardening #Flowers 🌱

Anyone for Raspberry Ripple? The King’s Rose that is. Every bloom is a surprising swirl of pink and creamy white petals. Bred by David Austin Roses. Happy Sunday everyone, take care. #roses 🌱

Yellow #roses for #HelloYellow #WorldMentalHealthDay The Poet’s Wife. Honey Be Mine. Absolutely Fabulous. Flower Power Gold. 🌱

The hybrid musk #roses started blooming in this garden in late May. With their gnarled branches it takes ages to prune these big old girls, I sometimes fret I’m too brutal or not brutal enough. That’s #gardening for you. Have a good day everyone. #throwbackthursday 🌱