Wildeve Rose by David Austin Happy Easter. Here* it is sunny and almost warm. I went to church with my mother-in-law, grandmother-in-law and sister-in-law this morning while our husbands played golf with their father. In the afternoon, we went to the David Austin Rose Garden and I chose a rose plant to put in one of our wedding present tubs to place by the door in our new house.
Every Easter my paternal Grandparents purchase my parents a rose from David Austin. This year they were all looking at the catalogue and my Grandmother and I started looking for pale pink scented roses which did well in containers. I chose Wildeve. Granny then told me that the centre was not far from Husband's parents. So, this afternoon, Husband and I went with his mother and Grandmother to the David Austin garden. We had a cup of tea, served out of a rose patterned bone china tea set, with cut roses on the tables, altogether in the beautiful tea rooms before I went for a walk amongst the roses to choose my wildeve. And there, among the plants, stalked peacocks. Beautiful blue-green peacocks with long trains of feathers.
peacock at the David Austin gardens {image by me}{I must be getting old. This is a new category of posts, gardening...}
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*Shropshire (Husband's parents place)
2 comments:
Oh I just love Roses and wish I could have a pot by my door with a rose in it. I love the idea of being purchased one every year to, so sweet and beautiful. More pictures when it's flowering?
Aw!!! First anniversaries are wonderful. As is this post.
And what a beautiful tradition. I've been eyeing up some David Austens like nobody's business. I think I'm going to have to start a new tradition of our own.
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