Montgomery Place used to have it. They may still. It's been a while since I've been in that garden, and the rose garden has undergone some rather strange alterations over time. It used to be growing on a stone wall, with a New Dawn on each side. Many years ago, I had to rescue an intern from it.

Thorny, is it? 'Apricot Glow', another excellent Brownell climber, is ferociously thorny -- I try to admire mine only from afar. 'Elegance' does look lovely!

I like nice jewelry though I rarely buy it. I find those pieces to be awkward in scale.

Tacky. Looks cheap.

Cl Crimson Glory - I got mine from a cutting I rooted off of a bush which was climbing at least 15 feet up a tree. Very very fragrant - "old rose" scent. Repeats well.

Jackie

Brilliant, thanks so much everyone.

@Marlorena, having trawled photos online of both it’s hard for me to say either way, but I’m sure you are correct. Kazanlik was actually on an old list of mine for it’s fragrance, but I’ve always shied away from big once-bloomers because of the dearth of decent planting spaces here. Perhaps it needs to go back on the current list.

@jacqueline9CA you are so right, I do use HMF but there is no substitute for the wealth of knowledge on here.

I would have guessed that it is a Damask without have the skill to identify it any further.

After my son died two years ago, I bought Wollerton Old Hall and started a rose garden in his memory.

A similar story came from Jean (who has posted here) over in Nashville. She lives in a long established neighborhood east of downtown and grows roses. The area has been civilized long enough that really unpleasant weeds had no homes there.

Then they had a tornado. Houses were left standing (goodly).

But next spring thistles came up in everybodys' yards. They had never had thistle problems before.

Storms just keep on giving.

I dont think its goldenrod or milkweed. We had about a half acre of goldenrod last year. I was gonna mow it but once I saw all the pollinators on it, I just let it be until it stopped blooming. It all came back this spring and I left a wide strip along the fence by the pond so it will feed some bees and butterflies.

I know there are different varieties of goldenrod though.

We have swamp milkweed and tropical milkweed the leaves seem more strap-like longer than the pic above.

Our Goldenrod- my shameful weed patch lol

Some got into the pond area. I think its kinda pretty and makes me happy in the way sunflowers do. It smells good when you mow it. Very herbal- like you're riding through a spa lol. (ignore the old farm gate..its on the long project list lol)

Hee, hee - no magic, I am afraid, except the long passage of time. I thought about it, and the one thing I came up with is that the plants in our garden are allowed to get mature, and mostly encouraged to grow how they want. Many times they only get to their most beautiful when they are at least 5 or 6 years in the ground, and sometimes much older. Also, if they start doing strange things (there are several rose bushes which have morphed into climbers over time, for example, even though they were not "supposed" to be climbers), we just let them be. I am always curious to see what they will do.

Our flowering crab apple tree is the largest I have seen around here, and I am told by my DH's family that it was planted in the 1940s or so. It just keeps getting bigger and better. We never do anything to it, except that we did remove a few of the lower branches at the order of our Fire Dept.

The climate, of course, allows that long term growth to happen, along with the good soil, and the fact that the property has been in the same family so long. This causes a sort of feeling that if one of my DH's ancestors planted something which is still healthy, I should leave it to thrive as long as it can. (When we first moved in here, there was a giant eugenia tree - 40-50 ft tall - dropping fruit maybe 10 months of the year, right on the front brick path which leads to our front door. Being a new homeowner, I convinced my DH that we should remove it. My FIL was alive at that time, and his reaction to my DH was " Your Grandmother LOVED that tree..." - end of plan to remove the tree.) Also, anything fussy or unhappy which needs constant care or spraying dies, which leaves only the happy plants.

I am not a garden planner, or designer of perfect spaces who removes and replaces every plant which does not comply with the original design. One funny example of that is the oval bed which my DH carefully cut out of our lawn, and put a brick edging around. It was the only space I actually ever tried to "plan" seriously. The plan was to have one tree rose, surrounded by tiny miniature rose bushes. Ha! One of the "miniatures" turned out to be no such thing, and immediately climbed over the top of the tree rose. It gets bigger and bigger every year, and I love it (the tree rose is still getting bigger and blooming happily alongside and sort of under it). Last year I noticed that one of the actual original miniature roses I planted around the bottom of the tree rose (which did stay maybe 18 inches tall for many years) has suddenly become a climber and leaped up to the top of the tree rose! Luckily it still has thin canes and tiny blooms, so it is just pretty, not overwhelming. The other thing which has happened in that oval is that of course the roses are fooling around, and producing hybrid volunteers, some of which are gorgeous! I suspect the partial shade has something to do with the urge to get tall, but who knows? I just enjoy the result.

Jackie

I love hearing about your garden, and seeing the pictures each year. It all goes to show what a fortunate climate and dedicated gardeners can accomplish, especially when given the passage of generations.

Lovely, each and every one!

Gorgeous photos! I can't wait for the roses to start blooming here!

Breath taking!