Glass-House Garden Roses

The Glass-House Garden started out filled with easy-grow perennials and shrubs like Hebes, Lavateras, red Cordylines, and Ake Ake. I liked this busy look, but the garden was so sunny and sheltered - perfect for roses. Hee hee - this was a temptation I just couldn't resist.

So over the next two years I deliberately made space for quite a number of new roses. Some were shifted in from other less suitable areas of my garden.

Names, Colours Unknown

About six came in as a result of my online plant auction mania, where I bid on unknown roses that I had to personally dig out of other people's gardens. They were never very dear, and it was late winter - the right time to move a rose.

The owners didn't know their names, and in all cases had no idea what colour they were or even how tall they'd grow. How exciting!

Princess Diana, however, was 'free' - she'd been already pre-dug out of her small suburban garden, and was sitting by the letter box waiting to be picked up. I actually paid fifty cents for her.

Where Are the Rose Labels?

A few other roses were rescued from the supermarket sale table and planed at the edge of the Glass-House Garden. They should still have their labels still attached, or at least their names recorded. Somewhere. Oh dear...

I wonder about the apricot beauty being Just Joey, though maybe the colour isn't quite orange enough. I wish I was more of a rose expert, and took notice of flower form and shrub form. It's not just colour!