So many people these days buy rose bushes/climbers/ramblers for the size and splendour of their blooms alone, completely overlooking what is, at least to the writer, the basic necessity of fragrance which, sadly, has often been left by the wayside during the intensive breeding programmes aimed at producing more and bigger blooms over an extended period of time. A garden without soul!Īdd perfume, breathe it in and breathe it in deeply, the magic then begins. ![]() Crimson velvet ones over a pergola, pale pink cabbage roses trailing down from a balcony to mingle with deep golden, pure white, peaches and cream and amber blooms of shrub and bush roses growing up to meet them but, beautiful as the sight is to behold, without the all essential perfume, no dreams will be born there. Growing them in, up and over every conceivable space, and in every hue that roses can be found in. ![]() It is often claimed that a woman’s perfume is her signature - exactly the same can be said of a garden.Ī gardener may have a love affair with roses. There is that extra special, spiritually uplifting aroma of earth after a shower of rain the green smell of happy, healthy, growing plants and the glorious perfume emanating from whichever personal favourite, fragrant flowers the individual gardener has chosen to grow. I'm raising a glass to each and every one! Word wizards! twitter.For a garden to be a real, living, breathing entity, it should be bursting with myriad joys of plant life: colour, texture, shape, form and, surpassing all of these things combined, the heady fragrance from which dreams are made. Literary JanetEmson CapitalCrime1 aah bless haha I'd give you a hug.
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