Antipodes

On the rose pergola, there's a lot of intermingling between adjacent varieties. Here's a view from the south of the left-hand side o...

I'm pleased to discover that I haven't lost a single rose or peony plant since I planted them in 2009. This year, the Gay Paree is ...

Today's date has a quite binary look: 2011-11-01. For an All Saints' Day, the weather at Gamone is wonderfully mild, and even sunny ...

Inside the house, whenever Sophia leaves her big wicker basket empty, Fitzroy has the habit of hopping into it, and often falling asleep. ...

Up until recently, I was starting to imagine that my Blush Rambler bush, on the pergola, was simply a vigorously-branching late-flowering s...

In my garden at Gamone, there are exactly 25 different rose bushes. This morning (probably for the first time ever), all the 25 were bloomin...

Nearly all the so-called "old roses" on my pergola are in full bloom today and, for some of them, this is the first time they'...

I wrote about this rose bush a year ago [ display ] . Its resurrection is amazing. Cueillez dès aujourd’hui les roses de la vie Quand vous s...

The names given to varieties of roses don't necessarily mean much. But one of the roses I planted in 2009 has a name that means a lot, n...

Named Lolita , this rose might be expected to bloom precociously: On the contrary, it's the last rosebush to blossom in my garden. The f...

To complete the future rose garden that I've been creating, which will comprise two dozen different bushes, I needed to obtain the final...