Hitching Post Roses

The rose Bantry Bay was the first rose I trained along the Stables hitching rail. Its first flowering is extremely beautiful, but later in the year it gets very scruffy. There is a cherry-pink peony in front which I always look forward to.

bantry bay - 1998

This is an early photograph, taken in 1998. In this picture the variegated Elm tree (in the background, mid-border) is rather small and new.

The Stables Garden

Now a new David Austin rose called Windrush has joined the pink climber Bantry Bay. The plantings underneath, too, have changed, and another flax has barged in to take up space. The bright pink peony flowering underneath the rose is bigger and brighter.