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Passionate about plants and wildlife. Art in Nature photos and support Leukaemia Research with the book of pre-digital photography of Julia Hember.

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For the final garden trip of our @historic_roses_group visit we got to go to the garden of a horticultural heroine of mine Hella Brumme who, along with Eilike Vemmer, was a senior director at @europa.rosarium for 34 years. Sangerhausen is one of the most important collections of roses in the world and their book is the authority on Old Roses. The day after Sangerhausen we got to visit Hella's private garden in the Harz Mountains, which was at least 400ft higher so the roses needed to reflect that.

I asked Hella to sign my copy of her book and she wrote "With best wishes. The more I know about roses, the more I want to know" - how true!

Picture 1 is a rose nerd fan girling with one of the world's most knowledgeable rosarians.

Picture 2 and 3 is an interesting R. pomifera hybrid called 'Hurdal'. I had never heard of this variety, but it was an arresting site in Hella's garden.

Picture 4 is R. spin 'Double Blush'. A Scots rose hybrid. Hella had many of these and rugosa hybrids, like in picture 4 'Thérèse Bugnet'. A Canadian bred, very hard rose.

Picture 5 is a seedling from R. gallica.

Picture 6 is Hella showing another Bugnet rose.

Pictures 7-9 are of R. gallica. These were collected, wild by Hella in Tuscany. She recalled slamming on the breaks in her car, launching her husband forward unannounced, as she had seen it growing in the undergrowth. The 9th picture popped up nearby and the sepals are very different.

Picturs 10-11 are a rose called 'Mon Amie Claire', which comes from R. spin 'Stanwell Perpetual', but it had a much better habit and the flowers better supported.

Picture 12 is 'Eddie's Crimson'.

Picture 13 is 'Alchymist'

Picture 14 is more fan-girling.

Picture 15 and 16 are of the group having the most wonderful time.

Such a perfect end to a wonderful trip with much learnt and many new friends, some of whom I've already been to visit post-trip.

#roses #oldroses #historicroses #sangerhausen #davidaustinroses

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Thursday was a very special visit with the @historic_roses_group. A rose lovers pilgrimage. A bucket list garden. @europa.rosarium and even more importantly, led by a leading world-expert Hella Brumme. Fan girling. Here were some of my favourites, but you'd need days here. So many roses to learn about.

Picture 1 is the gallica rose 'Fanny Bias'. Quite upright, fragrant and the most perfect flower.

Picture 2 is 'Mme Charles Frédéric Worth', which is a rugosa hybrid. Wonderful fragrance, rugosa parentage with 'Paul Neyron' too.

'Ombrée Parfaite' is in picture three. The photo does not do the colour of this new to me gallica justice.

Number 4 is one of my all-time favourites 'Jenny Duval'. So hard to photograph the colour as it has such a range. Often confused with 'Président de Sèze', but the latter's flowers are more double, the whole plant is taller and the peduncles are longer. @carolsidegardens has the best collection of these and is one of my all-time favourite gardens.

Picture 5 is 'Charles de Mills'

The rugosa hybrid 'Linda Campbell' is next, which was bred by Ralph Moore.

Picture 7 is the gallica 'Cosimo Ridolfi', whose name I love.

'Cardinal de Richelieu' is in picture 8. I really was drawn to these colours on the trip.

'Belle Isis' in pic 9. Important in the @david_austin_roses breeding programme at the early stages.

Picture 10 is 'Soleil d'Or'. An important rose for being the first crossed yellow rose from R. foetida f. persiana.

11 is 'Alain Blanchard'.

12 is 'Impératrice Josephine'. The famous collector of roses. See @martin.stott for a wonderful video about her this week.

13 is one of my favourite Damasks, 'Celsiana'.

14 is the beautiful 'Duchesse d'Angoulême', which has beautiful two-toned colour.

#roses #oldroses #historicroses #sangerhausen #shrubroses

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Another of our favourite days with the @historic_roses_group was visiting the gardens of Karin Schade, which is not far out of Göttingen, where I studied German many moons ago.

Amongst a wonderful garden and nursery Karin has a wide collection of Alba roses.

Picture 1 is a rose called 'Fosca', which is a gallics hybrid from Italy, with that rich colour everybody is looking for.

Picture 2 is a sport of 'Roseraie de Commer', which I think is much more refined.

Picture 3 is a rose from Rudolf Geschwind. He was a rose breeder from the Austro-Hungarian empire who was known for breeding frost hardiness into roses. The roses is called 'Futtaker Schlingrose', which is a multiflora hybrid.

Picture 4 is the gallica 'Violacea' which is one of my favourite singles of that colour.

Picture 5 is R. complicata that was littered with insects and makes a great climber too.

Picture 6 is the HRG enjoying listening to our host.

The last pictures show some of the Alba rose identifiers shared with us by Karin: grey/green foliage, tree like form, long and think receptacle/ hips, sickle-like hooks and long and pointed leaves.

#roses #oldroses #historicroses #davidaustinroses
#flowersofinstagram

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Another benefit, amongst many, of a @historic_roses_group trip is having access to private gardeners of rose enthusiasts around the world and on Friday afternoon we were treated to a trip to Escherode to see Andreas and Stefan's garden.

Picturd 1 and 2 are a seedling of the well-known 'Paul's Himalayan Musk'. It didn't seem to be a vigorous, but was growing through a dense hedge. It did have a layer of unrefined charm that I loved.

Picture 3 is a Rosa multiflora hybrid that Andreas raised and christened for his town of Escherode, which was also almost thornless.

Picture 4 is one of my all-time favourite Old Roses for fragrance, flower and grace: 'Ispahan'.

Picture 5 is the first rose raised and commercialised by @david_austin_roses 'Constance Spry'.

Picture 6 is a seedling from Canadian bred rose 'Patricia Macoun', which comes from Rosa helenae.

The 7th picture is a seedling (this was the garden of the seedlings!) of 'Bobbie James.

The last photos are of the group enjoying wonderful conversation, tea and cake in Andreas and Stefan's garden. Many members of the German Rose Society were also there to greet us. It is great to share a passion with like-minded people across the world.

#roses #oldroses #shrubroses #ramblingroses #davidaustinroses

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Another fantastic day with the @historic_roses_group group yesterday which saw us having a guided tour of @roseninsel_wilhelmshoehe with Dr. Andreas Meier-Dinkel and Dr Wolfgang Schmelzer, both of whom were so generous with their time.

The garden is steeped in history and since 2013 has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site with a grand water fountain that works with no pumpa; using gravity and laws of physics alone.

Picture 1 is the grand R. californica f. plena, which will go on to produce good orange-red hips after flowering. Pictures 2 is 'Ayrshire Splendens', which is little grown in the UK but has a most delightful anise/Myrrh fragrance. You can also smell this in @david_austin_roses first rose 'Constance Spry'.

Picture 3 is an important rose in the German history: 'Perle von Weißenstein', which is considered the oldest, deliberately hybridised rose in Germany. Although Dr Schmelzer said it struggles to open in the rain. It originated there over 200 years ago and then found there again in 1978.

Pic 4 is Mistletoe growing from an old rose, which is not very usual and 5 is R. multiflora.

Pic 6 is R. majalis var. foecundissima, which has the beautiful cinammon colour stems.

Picture 7 is a rose we loved and had never seen before. It isn't now commercially available and is called 'Pink Mystery'. Various parentage of R. stellata var. mirifica (see @malcolmallisonplants recent post, and other wonderful posts!) x (Rosa bracteata x Rosa nutkana). It is quite similar to a hybrid rugosa, but the petals were distinctly separate.

The final picture is the statue of Hercules in Wilhelmshöhe Park that was the tallest of its kind, until Lady Liberty came along!

#roses #historicroses #oldroses #shrubroses #flowersofinstagram

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A wonderful first day yesterday with the @historic_roses_group on the start of the trip to Germany. We landed in Frankfurt and made our way over to Wilhelmshöhe Park to look at the roses in the UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is only a hop, skip, and a jump away from where I went to university in Göttingen.

Picture 1 is, I think, 'Petite Orléanaise', which I have only read about but never seen. Most perfect flower and good fragrance. Pic 2 is the gallica 'Hippolyte', which has the most wonderful colour. The best collection of gallica roses, and one of my favourite gardens is found at home of my friends at @carolsidegardens.

Picture 3 is 'Plaisenterie' which I have just started growing at home. Pictures 4 and 5 are R. multiflora, which has often been attributed to one of the reasons for spread of RRD in america, since it is planted all over and spreads rapidly so a good place for the mite to hide. It produces hundreds of seeds in a hip which makes it easy to spread. Through the 30s and 50s it was described as "horse high, bull tough and hog tight" and was planted along a lot of central reservations.

Pictures 6 and 7 are portlands 'Indigo' and 'Jacques Cartier', both of which have a great fragrance. The last two roses are 'Marguerite Hilling'.

A very interesting public park and more photos to follow!

#roses #shrubroses #wildroses #davidaustinroses #historicroses

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Julia’s Late Golden

a tree with a tale to tell 🌳🌸🍏✨

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For Mary

the true story of how her beloved daughter Julia Mary Hember.. a dear friend.. with her photographer’s eye.. keenly spotted a new apple tree 🌳 that now blooms on & on 🌸 with a royally fairytale ending in Julia’s sweet memory 🙏 🍏 ✨

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Our Well is dressed..

..a tree with a tale to tell 🌳 🌸 🍏

To be contd.

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Made with love for my father beautiful flowers from@dlflowersuk and foliage from my lovely neighbor @maryhember

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Flowering St Andrews church begins#flowers tomorrow #westsussex#donewithlove

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Just loving the Greenery 💕flowers to be added tomorrow #all local#goodneighbors#westsussex

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