✨✨✨Christmas Eve✨✨✨

Today’s choice might come as a bit of a surprise to you. Where are those big fat globes of gloriousness, I hear you ask?

Well, I’ve already mentioned that choosing has been really tricky, as I’ve really tried to keep the best (the best of the best) till last.

Yesterday’s rose was up for premier position, until I went out into the garden and saw that today’s beauty was STILL FLOWERING, and will be doing so on Christmas Day. Decision made.

Never mind ‘will it be a White Christmas’; my wondering is always ‘will it be a rosy Christmas’. And the answer is a big resounding YES, thanks to this rose, Rosa Blush Noisette.  What you see is what you get.  Flecked and speckled with age and blasted by the elements, she holds on and on.

She explodes out and around the house, attempting to burst into the sitting room - when we open the windows, in she pops, dingling & dangling her gorgeous clusters of little pink sweeties. Who needs wallpaper when you have this combination of BN and Meg?!

This particular plant has done so well: in 7 years, she has made the very best of an east-facing bed against the house with only 40cm depth to expand into. She’s got to 10ft tall; the books say she won’t go any higher than 8ft. She’s happy.

And back to her best thing - she blooms and blooms and blooms and blooms. I love this rose so much that you’ll even see me going into the clusters with nail scissors to snip off the individual flower that has gone over. Micromanagement not often seen in this garden of a tangle of roses.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this list of roses; no doubt there are ones that you feel should have made the grade. If I can grow them, so can you - and we are in prime rose planting time, remember!

A peaceful Christmas to you all.