Dear Reader
This stunning rose is Lady Emma Hamilton. It is the best rose ever I think!
https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/lady-emma-hamilton
I bought mine from David Austin Roses - link above.
I bought it last year and have fallen in love with it. I've a lot of lovely roses, some with fantastic scents in my garden but this is the most beautiful and has the best scent of all. It is named after the mistress of Lord Nelson!
It is the most gorgeous blend of colours. I usually go for things like blush pink roses, lavender, catmint, and generally pastel shades in my garden - this is an unusual choice for me but it looks stunning with the colours I already have.
It leaves are a wonderful colour - you can just make them out in the picture, I'm not sure how to describe the colour but there is dark green, red and bronze in there!
The scent is just wonderful its like marmalade and citrus. I picked a bloom and put it on the dash of my car just as we were heading off carpacking in the wilds of the NW coast of Scotland. For a week I could bury my nose in it and enjoy the scent which lasted, unchanged for at least a week.
Its repeat flowering, its leaves are still on the plant and its mid January. It has good disease resistance and certainly has been looking healthy in my garden. It has won an award of garden merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. It also won 1st Prize for its fragrance in the Prix International at the Nantes trials in France. I think it richly deserves these awards and I hope it got to go to the ceremonies and had a good tea afterwards.
I do hope you try it out in your garden
Caroline
x
To learn more about me please visit
https://sites.google.com/site/carolinescottagegardens/
"
Key words - rose scent "cottage gardens" best perfect "English rose" "david Austin" "recommended rose"
No comments:
Post a Comment
I love to hear from my readers - but I do moderate comments before they are published. I am an anxious person so I appreciated kindness and positivity and will be this way on my blog too.