A 19th century French sterling teapot and a garden grown bouquet
of old French roses with names like my favorite
Madame Isaac Pereire …
An intoxicating raspberry pink Bourbon rose
from the late 19th century…c. 1881
or
Madame Ernest Calvat c. 1888
Beyond her fragrance, huge pink cupped blossoms,
and repeat bloom, she has beautiful leaves
with a purplish tinge to them…
Honorine de Brabant
has lighter leaves, charmingly muddled rosy tones…
Other striped Bourbons are Varigata di Bologna and Commandant Beaurepaire
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Forming an incredible bush of white roses
fronted by rosemary mid garden is ….
Mlle. de Sombreuil c. 1851
and
Deuil de Dr. Reynaud c. 1862
Being trained to cover, along with a grape vine,
one of four metal arches over a gravel garden path…
The Tea Noisette Gloire de Dijon c. 1853
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Named after Empress Josephine’s garden
the Bourbon Souvenir de Malmaison c. 1843
is the most slightly tinged pink white cupped rose below…
I purchased many of my roses years ago from Gregg Lowry in Sebastapol, California
He is doing such a wonderful service for us all in preserving antique roses so that we
can sink our face into the same bouquet that Josephine clipped from her Malmaison gardens…
If you want to help a business struggling in these times, preserve a bit of history,
and have decades of wonderful, intoxicating antique French roses in your home
for less than the price of a Diptyque candle…click below.
Vintage Gardens Mail Order
4130 Gravenstein Hwy. North Sebastopol, CA 95472
Email: info@vintagegardens.com
Tags: antique roses, Bourbon roses, France, French Antiques, French roses, old world roses
November 1, 2009 at 2:35 pm |
Simply beautiful!
November 1, 2009 at 2:56 pm |
Hi Trish,,
Absolutely wonderful.
Your garden must be delightful and many thanks for showing us your beautiful roses.
I love the old fashioned roses too, and I have a few David Austin.
Happy week
Hugs
Carolyn
November 1, 2009 at 5:16 pm |
Amazingly the flowers next to the tea pot were just picked. Roses are the gift that keep giving!
November 1, 2009 at 4:47 pm |
Absolutely gorgeous! I love the roses and the teapot as well. I’m forever looking for an 18th c chocolatier..and have almost given up hope..
November 1, 2009 at 5:14 pm |
Hello Ms. Enchanted by Josephine! There was a lovely sterling 18th century chocolatier on Ebay recently…of course tres cher. Good luck.
November 1, 2009 at 5:58 pm |
I guess I’ll have to scout ebay on a more regular basis- thanks!
November 1, 2009 at 8:19 pm |
Hi Trish!
The pictures are gorgeous…..We in South Central Texas have the Antique Rose Emporium whose “found” roses are beautiful also. We all need to support those growers who offer these historic roses in these times when weather is so unpredictable. The “Found” roses here don’t have the pedigree of the French ones but are those who survived in the area on their own for many years. People would see them by a deserted house or by the side of the road thriving and would get a clipping and they would try to propogate them for more people to enjoy. They are named after the area where they were found. My favorites are the “Highway 290, Pink Buttons”. Thanks for bringing this to light with some beautiful pictures…As always…
November 1, 2009 at 8:37 pm |
I’ve actually ordered some Bourbon roses from the Antique Rose Emporium! And of course Vintage Gardens has many other roses classifications (Damasks, Chinas, Noisettes, etc) as well as found roses at wineries or graveyards. I’m looking for one more sunny spot or trellis to sneak another rose. I was sorry to hear in VG’s news letter that things were getting tough, financially, for their business.
November 1, 2009 at 9:32 pm |
Sterling and old French roses ~ does it get any better…These images are so gorgeous I can almost smell the roses and I can see why you were not able to resist the tea pot. Did you plant your roses bare root? I would love to add some bushes and would certainly like to support Vintage Gardens. I was also intrigued by Beadboard Upcountry’s description of the “found” Texas roses.
~Jermaine~
November 1, 2009 at 10:07 pm |
Hi Jermaine. I want to get the Romaggi Plot Bourbon which is a found rose. They run less that $14, ship in small “bands” containers that are 3″ X 3″ x 6″.
November 2, 2009 at 12:25 am |
i was going to tell you all about the antique rose emporium, but haha. ok – when E graduated from fifth grade iwas in charge of the decorations for the tabes at the luncheon and i drove to the rose emporium and bought five or six varieties – about 20 plants each for the tables. then after the luncheon we planted them in this huge area by the school’s carpool line. a living legacy from their class. you should see it today – it is so beautiful!!! it’s been seven years now that it’s been growing. you should have smelled my car when i had all those rose plants in it!!! wow. what great memories of that day.
November 3, 2009 at 8:15 am |
The sense of smell is a great memory trigger. Wonderful, lasting contribution to the school.
November 2, 2009 at 3:38 am |
Heavenly….xv
November 2, 2009 at 2:20 pm |
An absolutely gorgeous post – I love silver and antique roses. The Honorine de Brobant is one of my favorites, but then all roses are exquisite. How lucky you are to have such a wonderful rose garden! I really enjoy all your posts, you have a beautiful blog.
November 3, 2009 at 8:17 am |
Merci. Honorine is slightly less robust then the others, but always contributes to the landscape and gorgeous in a bouquet.
November 3, 2009 at 2:18 am |
What a stunning post. I always display flowers in an old silver teapot it makes them all the more beautiful
November 3, 2009 at 3:26 am |
These roses are gorgeous and their names are so inspiring ….Thanks for all these bouquets
November 3, 2009 at 8:21 am |
Merci all. I wish we could transfer scents via the internet. Some modern roses approximate the look of old roses (David Austin is great) but can’t match the scent. I often put a bouquet in the bedroom earlier in the day just so I can drift into heaven later that night. Diptyque’s rose candle is my substitute to get me through the winter.
November 8, 2009 at 3:08 pm |
heavenly I can almost smell them from here