It has been an awfully long winter here in West Yorkshire, and the garden plants are only just starting to wake up. I had to pay a gardener to dig the borders for me as they were rock hard, and I am waiting for the lawn to establish as it was necessary to cover the old lawn with topsoil and reseed (a quick way of dealing with it without all the turbulence of digging over the old lawn). I want my garden to be predominantly a rose garden, full of delightful blooms and an exquisite fragrance, and I have several climbing roses, ramblers, and small shrub roses planted around the borders. Wherever I live, I always grow the climber, New Dawn. It has a rich and delicate fragrant, flowers profusely, is disease resistant and can tolerate shade.
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| New Dawn climbing rose |
Last year, I had a tall fence erected and it will make a superb place for all the climbers and ramblers, not just the roses. I also have a new kind of white and cream honeysuckle, highly fragrant called Lonicera periclymenum Scentsation, a Jasmine officinale, and a double white clematis called Arctic Queen (below).
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| Arctic Queen clematis |
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| Lonicera periclymenum Scentsation |
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| Jasmine officinale |
