Friday 20th June 2014

Rosa 'Chevy Chase'

It is a great year for roses and there are 64 types of roses in the Garden House including R. 'Chevy Chase' a small compact climber with a good covering of light green foliage and small dark red clusters of flowers.

Rosa 'Rambling Rector'

Rosa 'Rambling Rector' is a rampant vigorous rambling rose that would cover a tree or pergola. It has small white scented flowers followed by red hips. Ramblers don't usually repeat flower and usually produce attractive hips.

Rosa 'Ghislaine de Feligonde'

This is a rambling rose that unusually will produce a second flush of flowers - it is fast growing with apricot flowers that fade to cream with a light musky scent. It is a good choice for covering an archway and is generally disease resistant.

Rosa 'James Galway'

Rosa 'James Galway' is a beautiful pink climber with double flowers with an old rose fragrance. The stems are virtually thornless; it flowers freely and repeat flowers and can grow up to 8'.

Rosa Glauca

Rosa Glauca is a vigorous deciduous medium sized shrub with a simple deep pink flowers and good foliage and looks like a wild rose. It prefers full sun.

Rosa 'Charles de Mills'

Rosa 'Charles de Mills' is a small upright shrub rose that grows up to 1.2m and has copious mid green foliage with very fragrant double crimson purple flowers.

Bridge recommends Peter Beales as a supplier of roses and the RHS Encyclopedia of Roses by Charles and Bridget Quest-Riton.

Activities in the garden this week:

• Potting up chillies and feeding and labeling them
• Weeding the veg plots and planting out chard and beetroot plants
• Planting out 'Black-eyed Susan' climbing plants with blue flox, planting out gaura
• Staking the ammi
• Weeding and sorting out herbaceous border
• Tidying up area around the pond
• Sorting out plants in cold frames and general dead heading