#Rugosa rose 'Scabrosa'

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‘SCABROSA’, A PLEASING RUGOSA ROSE

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Rugosa rose.

Rosa rugosa “Scabrosa”.

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Scabrosa by Arno_Si http://500px.com/photo/258469571 #macro

#Scabrosa #Rugosa #Rose #floral #botanical #flower #garden

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THE SHADE GARDEN JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS

All is going well in this part of the garden due to even more rain this week. The garden will look nice at Christmas perhaps for the first time ever. There is a fullness and maturity in the plants that has taken years to create. But of course I just put the plants in place and nature does the rest.

#shade garden #Australian shade garden #Hydrangeas #Agapanthus #Bergenia #Windflower #Heuchera #Rugosa rose 'Scabrosa' #Rugosa hips

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A NEW VINTAGE VASE, ‘SCABROSA’ ROSE HIPS AND A STEM OF ARUM ITALICUM BERRIES

The weather is starting to level now to lovely days. The rain has induced the ‘Scabrosa’ rugosa rose to produce multiple hips this year which look just right in this between-the-wars vintage vase. My collection of green ware from this era is growing bigger each year. 

#Between-the-wars vintage vases #Australian pottery #'Scabrosa' Rugosa rose

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‘SCABROSA’, A RUGOSA ROSE

Rugosa roses are wonderfully clean and healthy and don’t need any deadheading or fuss - just some water and fertiliser to keep them flowering. This is their second flush and the best as you have the hips on the bush with the flowers. The blooms are transitory but the hips are beautiful to bring inside as they last well in water. I adore the hips and the rough leathery foliage. These grow into quite big plants and make wonderful hedges and boundary plants.

#'Scabrosa' #Rugosa roses

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MORE PLANTS OUT

This iris has taken ages to bloom as we have had much rain but little sun lately. I adore this old cultivar for its colours and markings and the simplicity of its form. So many iris bred today are overly frilly. The rugosa rose here is ‘Scabrosa’, an excellent variety, as it sports tomato-like red hips after flowering. The buds of this and other cultivars are quite thrilling to me. The shaggy pink dianthus nestling in pasque flower foliage is ‘Mrs Sinkins Pink’, a sport of the white ‘Mrs Sinkins’, possibly the most famous dianthus. The flower is an extraordinary form, really quite remarkable when studied, and as large as a daisy. its scent is clove like and quite pungent and this is what gives this particular flower ‘soul’.

#flag iris #'Scabrosa' rose #Rugosa roses #'Mrs Sinkins Pink' dianthus

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IN THE LIBRARY

The library has been returned to a project work space after being a painting studio for over a  year. 

The summer seems to have decided not to come this year. We have only had a few lovely summer days and lots of rainy or overcast ones with low temperatures. But the garden has never been so profusely in flower in January so that is a bonus. We have had 70 mis of rain in the past days, the most ever in our water gauge. I am hoping the rain and some manure in the front garden might bring the scattered zinnia seeds to life, as happened last year. We will see. 

The flowers here are David Austin roses (orange ‘Summer Song’ and deep red ‘The Prince’) and the Hybrid Perpetual ‘Reine des Violettes’, with Allium ‘Millennium’, Dahlia ‘My Love’, white Agapanthus ‘Snowball’, purple Aster ‘Monch’ and Rugosa ‘Scabrosa’ foliage and hips.

#rainy summer #cool Australian summer #summer flowers #David Austin rose #Aster #Allium

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OLD ROSES AND SWEET PEAS, WITH APRICOTS AND PEACHES

Deep pink Gallica roses ‘Du Maitre d’Ecole’, Rugosa single roses ‘Scabrosa’, striped ‘Rosa Mundi’, China roses ‘Mutabilis’, David Austin’s ‘The Prince’, with pale mauve-edged sweet pea ‘Hi Scent’, two toned original species sweet pea ‘Cupani’ and dark purple sweet pea whose name is unknown to me.

#Old Roses Sweet peas

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AUTUMN ROSES AND TITHONIA, WITH TREE PEONY AND RUGOSA ROSE FOLIAGES

Orange daisy Tithonias, yellow ‘Graham Thomas’ roses, ‘orange ‘Pat Austin’ roses and apricot ‘Grace’ roses, including the single one on the book. In the vase, there is also deep yellow day lily, white mophead hydrangeas and white ‘Vogue’ pelargoniums. The coloured leaves pinned to the background are from Rugosa ‘Scabrosa’ rose bush.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: SPRING ‘SCABROSA’, A RUGOSA ROSE

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SHINY TOMATO-ORANGE RUGOSA HIPS AND ORANGE DAVID AUSTIN ROSES

The beautiful big tomato-orange hips here were gathered from the single magenta flowered rugosa rose bush, ‘Scabrosa’. You would think those two colours would look wrong but they are in fact quite marvellous together. With this treasure are the roses ‘Pat Austin’ and ‘Summer Song’ (left in the top image). ‘Pat Austin’ (named for the breeder’s artist wife’) is a much looser and bigger bloom, quite free, with a tea fragrance, lighter outer petals and a gold centre when fully reflexed. In bright light, the active petals often look as if they have been brushed with gold dust. Light green leaves perfectly complement the waving, long stemmed branches of rose clusters. ‘Summer Song’ blooms are neater and quite circular in form, being deeply coloured and striking when first out. This is a very rangy rose bush with modest foliage, no matter how hard you prune it. Like ‘Pat Austin’, the clusters of blooms are borne on long stems, but unlike that rose, the flowers are held upright. The fragrance of this rose is very sweet indeed and quite noticeable around the vicinity of the bush. The deep orange rose blooms quickly lighten to a pleasant light ‘life-saver’ orange, both hues contrasting pleasingly with its attractively veined light green foliage.

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Flowers and rose hips at the same time. Rosa rugosa "Scabrosa".

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Rugosa rose. Rosa rugosa "Scabrosa" seedling.