Willow Tree Garden Roses

Many reject roses have found a good country home in the airy spaces of the Willow Tree Garden. They might be rescued from a bare root rose end-of-season sale, or dug out of a friend's garden. Unwanted and unloved, they're given a fresh start.

Yellow Rose

This rose a very pretty shade of soft lemon, and the flowers are smallish. They cover the bush all summer.

Pretty Pink Roses

One of the pink roses is known by its name - the English rose called Gertrude Jekyll, named after a famous English lady-gardener. Gertrude started life crammed in with the vegetables. She's thrived since moving into the Willow Tree Garden, which has good soil, space, and lots of sunshine.

gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll is spindly and frail if planted in an overcrowded place, or if she is out of the sun. Of course she is bred by David Austin, and is one of his earlier English roses.

Sexy Rexy?

This pink rose, enjoying the summer in the Willow Tree Garden, looks and behaves a lot like the Sam McGredy rose Sexy Rexy. Nothing inappropriate, mind you...

Sexy Rexy and Iris Japonica

Sam McCredy is a well known New Zealand rose breeder, and the red Dublin Bay is his most famous rose. Sexy Rexy is his rose with the silliest name, though!