Living in the countryside next to the sea. There are always wild roses or "briars" in bloom at this time of year.
Last late August early September when it's still pleasant and warm but not short of dews and rain.
I busied myself regular placing shrub and 🌹 cuttings in plant pots filled with compost and I covered them after watering with home made plastic bottle cloches.
Here's a wild rose new plant 🌹 I noticed flowering this very week:
Even the wild roses/briars gladden my heart.
Tying in with a suitable rock tune by U2.
I was 18 when I saw them in 1981 at a Christian music festival called Greenbelt on a gorgeous country estate in Odell in Bedfordshire in Ingerland. I wasn't impressed with them apart from "Gloria" at the time. It just shows what I know.
Enjoy the track:
And the wee Scots rose is white. Isn't it the Burnett rise with very dark hips?
ReplyDeleteThe Irish rose is a beauty
I didn't know that GZ. There are pink, white and red wild briars or rambling rose's. They are exquisitely beautiful like their posh cultivated garden cousins.
ReplyDeleteI love the wildflowers in our hedgerows, I am trying to create one along our back fence, reminds me of our childhood wondering around the rural lanes in Somerset. Your rose is a pretty shade of pink.
ReplyDeleteYour childhood Somerset walks sound idyllic Marlene. I like to have wild plants and cultivated varieties in the garden and outside the fields and on the verges.
ReplyDeleteI love a rambling rose. We've got one growing along our back railings. It's full of beautiful pink roses in spring
ReplyDeleteYea they're great aren't they Linda. I wish our roses flowered in Spring. Wild of cultivar.
ReplyDeleteI would love to have a rambling rose here. They are so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThere is an Irish garden centre near me that sells bare rooted wild roses from November to March JayCee. Why not take some cuttings in September and propagate your own rambling roses?
ReplyDeleteAnd now I know what they’re talking about when I read about the briars.
ReplyDeleteIt’s a beautiful little rose.
Unfortunately I too cannot listen to U2. It’s something about the whine in his voice. But that’s just me. There are many who think they’re great.
People here often call the brambles the briars by mistake Angela.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of bands who have made it big and I never understood why. Give me Kansas or Thin Lizzy any day of the week.