Winter has finally given way to Spring, with all its promise of more glorious blooms and surprises in the rose gardens.
The bird baths are filled with precious rain and will send the established roses off to a good start for the expected dry period over the next few months.
In fact, the sense of joy in the garden is palpable, with glimpses of rosie kisses among the beautiful blooms of the Tea rose, Comtesse de la Barthe!
She has flowered through all of winter with her gloriously perfumed bell-shaped blooms!
And the 'Cherokee rose', R. Laevigata, is opening up to the warmth of the morning sun with beautiful golden bosses at centre-stage of large pure white blooms.
A small bunch of snipped blooms from the late pruning (we prune in late August to avoid the last of the frosts) promise many bunches of roses to come.
The last of the bare-rooted roses has been planted just in time for the early Spring rain, with Climbing Tea roses, Noisettes and Chinas added to the gardens this winter.
So now the bare arches will soon be covered by the likes of the climbing Tea roses, Lady Hillingdon and Comtesse de la Barthe, sports of their namesakes already established in the garden.
While the winter-flowering Tea roses have a little rest, the rest of the garden is beginning to wake up!
An exciting time among the heirloom roses at 'Edgeworth LLey'.
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