The garden as seen over the head of the David Austin rose Gertrude Jekyll
Although I’m a big fan of antique Bourbon roses…
I make an exception for this and Cressida below…
also from David Austin’s English Rose collection
of modern roses with old rose characteristics…
Behind the dianthus to the right…tightly budded peonies…
the count down continues ’till those tight balls unfurl…
Another dianthus…
also knows as “pinks”…not for the color
but for the pinking sheared edges…
From the carnation family…sweetly scented…
Scabiosa Fama Blue
the “Pincushion” flower…
Absolutely love this perennial…
most beautiful watercolor paint blue…
more here
Always attracted to roses with a sweep of secondary color…
the color of whipped cream swirled with raspberry…
Frau Karl Drushki…a Hybrid Perpetual classified rose from 1901
The color story here is lavender blues and silver…
A blue clematis is shyly hiding behind the lambs ears
but will crawl up the trellis before summer…
backed by a huge Sombreuil tea noisette rose c. 1850
Foxgloves following the poppies..
self seeding gifts to the gardener…
In the midst of all the careful planning…
the roses, peonies, boxwood, iris, nepata, geranium, dianthus, cypress…
free-wheeling poppies, foxglove, erigeron (Santa Barbara daisy) add
lovely surprises and fill out the garden beds…
To be continued…
