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.
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4130 Gravenstein Hwy. North Sebastopol, CA 95472
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