I decided to write about my passion for gardening past, present and future.
I have been ill suffering with Lyme Disease since May 2003 but at last after long term antibiotic treatment getting my life back and can again enjoy my garden.
Friday 25 June 2010
ROSE EXTRAVAGANZA
Dawn chorus from my bedroom window in early June to listen to whilst enjoying my June roses.
The only thing missing is the heady perfume of the roses.
Sir Edward Elgar
Aviateur Bleriot
Goldfinch changes colour from salmon/gold to pale yellow
Cornelia
Cottage Rose
Charles de Mills
Sweet Juliet
Mayor of Casterbridge
Unknown rose with no perfume but always flowers profusely.
Sophie's Rose
Jayne Austin
Unknown rose a cutting from my mother in law.
New Dawn
Vielchenblau
Unknown rose
Rosa Galica Officinalis
Cecile Brunner
Rosemoor
Hermosa
Francine Austin
White Flower Carpet
Rosa Mundi
Francis E Lester
Mayor of Casterbridge
Blush Rambler
Falstaff
Rambling Rector
New Dawn cutting.
The Garland
Rambling Rector from the other side next to the compost heap. Rather a nice way to hide the compost and the perfume from the rose and the Honeysuckle is wonderful.
A sideways view of the vegetable area which is actually where most of my roses are, looking across to the backdrop of the woods.
Oh Joanne, your roses are beautiful. What a sight they must be in person and the aroma must be heavenly. There are so many I love in your garden Mayor of Casterbridge, Sir Edward Elgar, Charles de Mills' Sweet Juliet and Jane Austin. Gorgeous!
Such a great collection of beautiful roses ... your garden must look fabulous! I'm rather partial to the white roses ... but I do so love the Jayne Austin. The aroma in your vegie garden must be amazing! Loved your birdsong accompaniment too ... what a great idea!
Well that was fun, playing pick my favourite rose, but it wasn't easy, and I kept changing my mind. Mayor of Casterbridge and Jane Austin are especially pretty, with those full blossoms and extra petals. Francine Austin looks beautiful with the bellflowers, while Aviateur Bleriot makes a wonderful arch entryway. Then Cornelia packs so many flowers onto it.
The roses look super all around and in the vegetable garden.
Patientgardener thanks for your suggestion, difficult to see on the photo but it is not as big as Gertrude Jekyll and that is a name I would have remembered, however today I found a label whilst weeding around the rose with Perdita on although DA says Perdita has an apricot tinge and this certainly does not. I definitely have not got a Perdita anywhere else in the garden so the mystery continues.
I have known labels to be wrong and even saw Rasa Gallica Officinalis mislabeled as something quite different on a DA stand at Hampton Court RHS show. Also I bought a Felecia which turned out to be Cornelia the difference in flower size being quite destinctive.
Joanne, my dear. What a treat! I've been impressed before with your gardening prowess but this post is just beyond words. I love every single rose. What a joy it must be to bury your nose in them.
Rosa gallica officinalis: I didn't know it was a semi. I love the yellow center and that color is stupendous. Vielchenblau is so unique in color for a rose. What a treasure. Your photo of Cecile Brunner reminds me of mine. I took it out because the arbor that supported it...didn't any longer. It was a sad day. I still miss those spicy/sweet blossoms.
Love your perfectly clipped box hedges. Roses are way prettier than veggies anyway.
Thank you for a fabulous peak inside your outstanding garden.
Hi Grace Your comments reminded me that I should point out that Rosa Gallica Officinalis, as with Charles de Mills and Rosa Mundi all send out shoots around the main plant, these come true to the plant and can be used to start off yet another plant. However I have moved Rosa Gallica Officinalis and have found that even years later the original roots left behind are still sending up shoots, so a word of warning to be careful where you plant them.
As to Cecile Brunner, Grace, what a pity you had to loose it because it takes so wonderfully easy from a cutting, mine are bushes not climbers and came from cuttings from a neighbour Christina, who has since died, so a lovely reminder of her. I have taken many other cuttings since and they have been passed along to friends and visitors.
Joanne your roses are beyond beautiful! I really hope one day I'll have more space to grow roses in. I loved listening to the birds, what a difference in the amount when you have so many trees around for the birds to sit in and sing. We have on little Towhee that has been singing to us since the very beginning of Spring.
Oh Joanne, Your rose passion is overwhelmingly inspiring! I did fine New Dawn this year... planted and protected it from the rabbits. Your garden is stunning ... what a treat to see, while listening to your bird calls and songs. I do so miss them here now that August is upon us. Gorgeous!!
It is probably way too long ago to be posting to this one.....but here I go anyway. Love your photos, what kind of a camera do you use? The then (2010) unidentified pink rose. Could it be Constance Spry? Looks similar to one I had in my old garden.
Hi Lisa never too long to post and it is easier these days to find comments on old posts as they come up on dashboard. Actually i enjoyed looking at this post again especially now there are not so many roses in flower being September. Interesting that you suggest Constance Spry I must look into that a little further thank you.
These days I spend far too much time following the research and developments with Lyme Disease and doing my other blog so don't get nearly enough time to have fun with this garden blog but I still enjoy the garden although there are as always too many jobs to keep up with.
Yes I know it is August now but these were July photos and as with most things in my life I am running behind. Where does the time go? ...
LYME LIFE written 2009
I started suffering with arthritis in mainly my large joints especially my knees 6 years ago. The symptoms varied and I remember saying that every joint was affected except my elbows to one doctor. I was told it would be hormonal and to take the usual supplements cod liver oil or glucosamine ( I would certainly recommend buying shares in the companies producing these supplements) They had no noticeable affect.
All my symptoms deteriorated significantly over a few weeks, 4 years ago. Hips shoulders and knees being the worst and I started with muscle weakness in upper arms and upper legs. I had difficulty standing and walking across a room. I was unable to walk upstairs and my husband was making plans to convert to a downstairs bedroom. I had seen 5 doctors and 3 Rheumatologists and put on steroids for Poly Myalgia Rheumatica diagnosis. I had been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS.
I have X rays and scans showing signs of osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid arthritis. I have been retired early from the Civil Service having lost my job not to mention my earning potential.
My illness seemed to progress through my body not affecting the same joints left to right at the same time. I had bursitis in left hip, right hip, left elbow. I had synovial thickening in both wrists. At that time I could not lift and hold a magazine so lifting a kettle I could only do if a third full and with two hands. Each joint in my hands fingers feet and toes were affected. I had swallowing difficulties and many other symptoms. None of this describes the endless and awful pain whenever I moved or the tiredness but inability to get quality sleep.
Two years ago my GP gave me Amoxicilin for a sinus/throat/chest infection. All my arthritis symptoms improved. The course ended the symptoms deteriorated I started a second course the symptoms improved. The improvement was more significant than when I had started taking steroids. This led my GP to suspect Lyme Disease. I laughed because we do not travel abroad but she said they had had other cases in the surgery in the early stages of tick bite and Erythma Migrans rash. She said, but you have not had a bite. I said oh yes I have I had two on my ankles with rashes, March 05 this was confirmed on her computer at the time I had seen a locum doctor. My worst symptoms were waking up feeling rigid and having to painfully flex every joint in my body before struggling to get up. The only other time I had experienced this was in May 2003 during a flu like illness like no other I had ever experienced. At that time I had a bite and similar rash on my right foot which lasted like the other rashes about four weeks. I had also consulted the surgery and it was dismissed as a virus. I walked our dog daily in the woods adjacent to our house where the deer roam, prime tick area.
Thus started my very lengthy search about Lyme Disease leading me through http://www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk/ to a doctor who specialises in this illness. He confirmed my GP's suspicions. I never had a positive blood test but then they are antigen tests and there is much research that shows they are unreliable. In my case the year of steroids and many weeks antibiotics could have affected the results. So with a clinical diagnosis and following ILADS International Lyme and Associated Disease Society guidelines I continued on antibiotics for two years. Both my doctors continued to treat me despite the Health Protection Agency advising against long term antibiotics. I am now nearly 100% recovered I have no pain or muscle weakness. I can walk upstairs something I could not do for three and a half years. I can garden do house work and live a normal life. I still need to pace myself and with only a few months to 60 will not be looking to return to work.
Life is such a joy.
Sadly there is much controversy about Lyme Disease and doctors in UK are taught that it is so rare. Well where I live in Guildford I have been in contact with a dozen other people with it so perhaps not so rare as HPA would like us to believe. I am in touch with nearly 2000 other patients through a chat line Eurolyme most had been misdiagnosed with several other illnesses.
Look at UK charity http://www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk/ if you want to read more about this illness. There are many MP's taking an interest in the problems surrounding diagnosis and treatment see above charity links into a recent meeting at the House of Commons.
Thank goodness there are some thinking doctors around who have courageously treated me against opposition and I have made such a miraculous recovery albeit rather a lengthy one.
One day there will be many more people who are helped with their chronic illnesses when IDSA starts taking note of what our courageous LLMD’s are doing following ILADS Guidelines.
ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, Poly Myalgia Rheumatica, Arthritis, Bell’s Palsy, MS,MN, ALS, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Heart Block, Stroke, Psychiatric, gastric problems the list is endless. Not all suffering from Lyme Borrelia but how many are even properly assessed for it.
Heaven! Heavenly!! Beyond that...
ReplyDeletePure Bliss, period.
Wish I were walking through with you....
Alice
aka Alice's Garden Travel Buzz / Bay Area Tendrils
There all lovely but I love Vielchenblau and Francis E Lester.
ReplyDeleteThe colour and form of Jayne Austin is special. Like your structures by the way.
Breathtakingly beautiful!!! You are so blessed with your lovely, peaceful surroundings.
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Oh Joanne, these are beautiful. I so miss having roses, my garden is very shady, (which I appreciate on a hot day), you have so many beautiful ones.
ReplyDeleteWhat a treat! Your roses are adorable and I so enjoyed looking at them seeing that most of them are new to me. A marvellous collection!
ReplyDeleteoh wonderful! I'm impressed .. ... ja want to be a bee
ReplyDeletebeautiful garden, I hope the spring here:)
Oh Joanne, your roses are beautiful. What a sight they must be in person and the aroma must be heavenly. There are so many I love in your garden Mayor of Casterbridge, Sir Edward Elgar, Charles de Mills' Sweet Juliet and Jane Austin. Gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteSuch a great collection of beautiful roses ... your garden must look fabulous! I'm rather partial to the white roses ... but I do so love the Jayne Austin. The aroma in your vegie garden must be amazing! Loved your birdsong accompaniment too ... what a great idea!
ReplyDeleteSimply sublime, Joanne! What a way to enjoy roses, from an upstairs window, thanks for sharing it. Charles de Mills wants to come live with me!
ReplyDeleteWell that was fun, playing pick my favourite rose, but it wasn't easy, and I kept changing my mind. Mayor of Casterbridge and Jane Austin are especially pretty, with those full blossoms and extra petals. Francine Austin looks beautiful with the bellflowers, while Aviateur Bleriot makes a wonderful arch entryway. Then Cornelia packs so many flowers onto it.
ReplyDeleteThe roses look super all around and in the vegetable garden.
Truly beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely selection of roses you have. The unknown one might be Gertrude Jekyll
ReplyDeleteThanks for all your comments.
ReplyDeletePatientgardener thanks for your suggestion, difficult to see on the photo but it is not as big as Gertrude Jekyll and that is a name I would have remembered, however today I found a label whilst weeding around the rose with Perdita on although DA says Perdita has an apricot tinge and this certainly does not. I definitely have not got a Perdita anywhere else in the garden so the mystery continues.
I have known labels to be wrong and even saw Rasa Gallica Officinalis mislabeled as something quite different on a DA stand at Hampton Court RHS show. Also I bought a Felecia which turned out to be Cornelia the difference in flower size being quite destinctive.
Joanne, my dear. What a treat! I've been impressed before with your gardening prowess but this post is just beyond words. I love every single rose. What a joy it must be to bury your nose in them.
ReplyDeleteRosa gallica officinalis: I didn't know it was a semi. I love the yellow center and that color is stupendous. Vielchenblau is so unique in color for a rose. What a treasure. Your photo of Cecile Brunner reminds me of mine. I took it out because the arbor that supported it...didn't any longer. It was a sad day. I still miss those spicy/sweet blossoms.
Love your perfectly clipped box hedges. Roses are way prettier than veggies anyway.
Thank you for a fabulous peak inside your outstanding garden.
Hi Grace
ReplyDeleteYour comments reminded me that I should point out that Rosa Gallica Officinalis, as with Charles de Mills and Rosa Mundi all send out shoots around the main plant, these come true to the plant and can be used to start off yet another plant. However I have moved Rosa Gallica Officinalis and have found that even years later the original roots left behind are still sending up shoots, so a word of warning to be careful where you plant them.
As to Cecile Brunner, Grace, what a pity you had to loose it because it takes so wonderfully easy from a cutting, mine are bushes not climbers and came from cuttings from a neighbour Christina, who has since died, so a lovely reminder of her. I have taken many other cuttings since and they have been passed along to friends and visitors.
Wow, so many roses in the garden, it must smell heavenly everywhere you go here. What a lovely rose garden, Joanne.
ReplyDeleteJoanne your roses are beyond beautiful! I really hope one day I'll have more space to grow roses in. I loved listening to the birds, what a difference in the amount when you have so many trees around for the birds to sit in and sing. We have on little Towhee that has been singing to us since the very beginning of Spring.
ReplyDeleteOh Joanne, Your rose passion is overwhelmingly inspiring! I did fine New Dawn this year... planted and protected it from the rabbits. Your garden is stunning ... what a treat to see, while listening to your bird calls and songs. I do so miss them here now that August is upon us. Gorgeous!!
ReplyDeleteIt is probably way too long ago to be posting to this one.....but here I go anyway. Love your photos, what kind of a camera do you use? The then (2010) unidentified pink rose. Could it be Constance Spry? Looks similar to one I had in my old garden.
ReplyDeleteLisa in Bellingham, WA
Hi Lisa never too long to post and it is easier these days to find comments on old posts as they come up on dashboard. Actually i enjoyed looking at this post again especially now there are not so many roses in flower being September. Interesting that you suggest Constance Spry I must look into that a little further thank you.
DeleteThese days I spend far too much time following the research and developments with Lyme Disease and doing my other blog so don't get nearly enough time to have fun with this garden blog but I still enjoy the garden although there are as always too many jobs to keep up with.
Oh and it is a Canon Powershot G10
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