Joanne's Cottage Garden: REVELING IN ROSES

Monday, 27 June 2016

REVELING IN ROSES

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Rosa Mundi

Jayne Austin

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Crocus Rose

Hermosa

Rosa Gallica Officinalis

Cecile Brunner

Red Flower Carpet

Name unknown

Sophie's Rose

New Dawn

Aviateur Bleriot

Goldfinch

Saunders White

Blush Rambler

Rambling Rector

Veilchenblau

Francine Austin

The Garland

Possibly Flower Carpet gone mad.

White Flower Carpet

Noble Antony

Cottage Rose

Most of my roses came from David Austin roses although some are from cuttings.

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Anonymous28 June 2016 at 16:55
My favourite plant of all time... Stunning!
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Tatyana@MySecretGarden28 June 2016 at 19:51
Your collection of roses always impresses me, Joanne! Beautiful!
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Gwen28 June 2016 at 21:45
Such beautiful roses. Thank you for sharing your photo's of your beautiful garden. Sadly, although I am just the other side of Guildford from you, roses do not grow in my garden - nor do delphiniums.
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Alison4 July 2016 at 13:57
An amazing assortment! Thank you for sharing with us all.
How on earth do you remember all their names?
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Joanne5 July 2016 at 20:09
Thank you. I have a plan and record of all roses plus all clematis. This blog serves as a useful reminder for me too.
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Unknown5 July 2016 at 21:43
Hi, I hope you can help me,I dont know what to do about my Veilchenblau rose.This rose is rather Wide perhaps 41/2 feet( I live in Michigan are roses dont get as large as yours) I see roses blooming within the rosebush however there are canes growing all around that come up from the ground, I dont know if these are suckers or if this is the way Veilchenblau grows, Should I prune this canes out? Thank you for any help.
Ive been to your town twice, love it you are a lucky gal
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Unknown17 July 2016 at 16:23
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" Great post, so many beautiful roses. Mine have had their first flush and I am now waiting for the second showing. Thank you for sharing yours with me :)
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Unknown14 December 2016 at 10:14
Some stunning colours and some really healthy roses here. Just makes me even more sad at this time of year. As a flower lover, I cant stand the site of dead gardens and falling leaves. Late spring/early summer is the best time of the year, everyone is out in the garden making it look as lovely as possible. Best time of the year by far.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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