..a few more..

..that's the best I can do so far... I'm now having a choc-flake ice cream.

Hope you like... bi for now...

Oh, your garden is absolutely enchanting, Marlorena. I am trying to imagine the lovely scents perfuming the air as you walk around your gorgeous roses. So many beautiful clematis too, and the white verbascum gives the perfect background. I wonder about a couple of light blue flowers in the bottom left corner of your sidewalk photo. Is it some special kind of a low-growing clematis or something else?

vesfl...thanks so much I'm glad you liked them.... those flowers in the bottom left corner are Scabious caucasica 'Perfecta Blue'... they're new to me, and I'm liking them very much. Quite a pale blue, but darker in the evening light... I don't know if you grow these where you are...

Marlorena, thank you. A quick look at a few online nurseries doesn't show that it's widely available here but perhaps one day I may attempt to grow it from seeds.

Embarrassed to say that I've never heard of 'Gloire de Ducher' but the bloom on your photo is so luxurious and beautiful that it took my breath away. Such a glorious rarity.

Thanks again vesfl.... yes it is rather nice, I wasn't expecting a bloom so soon for us here with lots more to follow... it smelled of fresh plums this morning too.. reflecting the colours perhaps..

Marlorena, I always look forward to spring weather in England so that you will start posting new garden photos! I like the way you always seem to be changing things up. Everything looks healthy and sumptuous, and I'm so glad to hear that you've finally fallen for 'TdN'. That's one I hope to get someday.

Thanks for the garden glimpses,

Virginia

Thanks Virginia... always changing things up...yes 'fraid so... it seems to be my signature tune... glad you liked them..

Carol..thanks... I have an edge-of-town garden, I would say... the rest is trick photography - sort of...it's rather small but it's surprising what you can squeeze in, with pruning and control... I have to be ruthless, but thanks so much, I'm glad you liked them too.. maybe more in a couple of weeks.. my obelisks haven't got going just yet, and I must tease Cori-Ann...

Oh, my! Such beauty! Every one of your roses is just gorgeous and I love your choices of companion plants. Some I've never heard of, but would like to grow, like Parahebe Porlock. Your clems are perfectly gorgeous. Your walkways are exactly what I tried to get here, but that kind of gravel is nowhere to be found in my neck of the woods. They kept trying to sell me sharp edged rocks that they say will interlock. NOT the look I want. So, I just use mulch. It must have something to do with snow removal. My Desdemona is waiting to go in the ground. I bought her for her scent, but she's beautiful as well. What is growing in the large blue pot? I'm trying to decide what to put in a new large pot, and can't decide whether to use a rose or some other perennial. Loved this tour of your garden!

Your garden is sumptuously beautiful & way ahead of mine. I only have 2 rugosas blooming, Souvenir de Philemon Cochet & Moje Hammarberg, it will be a few more weeks before the others get going. Reve d'Or is teasing me with a lot of buds, well, a lot for a 2nd year plant. I love all your photos but Desdemona is a show-stopper. Thanks for sharing.

Jane, thanks so much.... I hope to see your rugosas at some point, I love those too..

Flowersaremusic,... thank you I'm so pleased you like them... sorry to hear about your gravel issues, I'm surprised about that... I have 2 blue pots, one tall one by a chair, with a newish Hakonechloa grass just showing, and in the round one in gravel I have some petunias surrounding 3 Rhododendron 'Bloombux', which are little clippable box-like plants with small pink flowers right now.. I enjoy clipping things, so I shall shape these, like one does with Box..

Hope you find something you like for your pots...

Wow! That's so fun! Your garden is like a treasure box!! I want to walk around it (300 times, like we all do indeed! :)).....

Thank you so much for posting photos! Inspiring!!!

I'm (almost) speechless at the beauty of your garden, Marlorena. You have such an eye for color and design, and the companion plants are ravishing. You simply have the perfect English garden. I've never seen Lady Hillingdon here with such a deep, saturated color. The vase of roses is stunning in its beauty, and how thoughtful to have the different varieties discreetly labeled. Please just show us more and more.

Thank you so much, Marlorena. Yes, I meant the pot sitting on the gravel. I was toying with the idea of box for my lg. pot, clipped into a globe. My garden is anything but formal, so didn't know if that would work. I like the idea of it set it at a juncture of the pathways. I've been wanting to incorporate Hakone grass into the garden, so could use that instead, with the pot in a shadier area. Now, I'm going to look at your photos again! Nothing blooming here, yet.

Anna-Lyssa../Ingrid... thanks so much for your generous comments, as always... glad you liked them. I do hope to post some more in a short while..

flowersaremusic... I love the Hakone grass... I took a piece of mine in the garden to grow in that tall blue pot - it's got a way to go yet ... here is a photo of the parent plant right now.. Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'... I think it's very suitable with blue pots and it takes the kind of sun we get here too..

Oh my goodness, everything look so great! yes please post more, even of nonrose things! please please please.

It looks like you give plants space to be what they want to be.... I need to learn that. And yes, that bouquet on the table...... so perfect.

Marlorena, I've had my eye on Hakone grass for about a year. I agree, perfect in blue pots. I always buy blue pots. Here, it needs semi shade, which seems odd since I'm in a much colder zone than you. But, our summers are hot. Thanks for sharing that photo. Makes me want one more than ever.

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! What is the name, please, of the deep purple clematis in the fifth photo of your second post? So lovely. Thanks.

hi Jacquie,...thank you so much... the clematis is 'The Vagabond'... it's a gr. 2 and quite vigorous... it's reached the top of the obelisk it's on, with rose 'Royal Jubilee', and will repeat bloom later, on this extended growth... this is just the lower part of it... I'm glad you like it Jacquie, I'm very happy with it, it's never wilted or anything..

Thank You, Marlorena! I'm looking for a purple clematis for an arbor. The other side will be Hagley Hybrid. I usually plant group 3 clems as I have better luck with them, but this is one to consider. Your garden is a perfect English Garden.

Love all the pictures of your garden! Everything looks beautiful & lush. I too love seeing the roses mixed in with the other perennials.

Beautiful garden and beautifully kept. I especially enjoyed seeing parts of your garden I had not seen before.

Cath

Thank you Cath... I'm so glad you liked it..

HalloBlondie...thank you also...