Scent in the June Garden.

I am a turn late this month with my contribution to the Scent in the Garden Meme . I have been away with my lovely friends : the ‘ Women who Weed ’ to the ‘ Gardens in the Wild Festival ’ in Herefordshire . Here we see some amazing garden and hear to such illustrious speakers as Anna Pavord , Tim Richardson , James Hitchmough , Derry Watkins and Alys Fowler .

Everywhere I have been this June , on my journey from the East of the nation to the West , I have been struck by how astonishing the pink wine are this class .

Do you know the drippy painting by the Victorian artist , Lawrence Alma - Tadema,‘TheRoses of Heliogabalus ‘ ? He was an creative person renowned for his depicting of bare woman and marble . He essay to make nudity estimable by giving it a classical theme . This painting depict one of the orgies of the debauched , psychotic untested emperor butterfly , Elagabalus ; the one where he thought it would be fun to sit and see as his Guest were strangle to a scented death under a pelter of rosaceous petals . The scent of rose wine is so sensuous and luscious that it is not surprising that the overstrung Victorians seemed to associate the rose with decadence . At the moment , on a walk round the garden one feels rather like those inauspicious guests , drown in fragrance . The most scented rose I have is the sometime Bourbon ‘ Madame Isaac Pereire ’ . It is a luscious , abstruse ruby / pink colouring and is well screw for its grand fruity aroma . Unfortunately , it is an untidy bush and suffers from black spot , but still I keep it for its fragrance .

Madame Isaac Pereire

Madame Isaac Pereire

David Austin say that one of the most fragrant of his roses is the endearing apricot ‘ Evelyn ’ . It has Brobdingnagian flowers which regrettably string up their heads under the weight as they age . The scent is scrumptious though .

‘ Evelyn ’

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Madame Isaac Pereire

I love peachy or apricot rosiness . I have the wonderful climb Camellia sinensis rise ‘ Lady Hillingdon ’ . She hangs her head , but they are a lovely deep salmon pink which look as if they have been dip in teatime . They are fantastically fragrant .

Lady Hillingdon

I also love the popular musk rose ‘ Buff Beauty ’ which make a large President Bush and always has good for you foliage .

Madame Isaac Pereire

Madame Isaac Pereire

‘ Buff Beauty ’

The David Austin climb ‘ Grace ’ is a gorgeous recondite apricot colour and has an intoxicating warm fragrance .

‘ free grace ’

‘Evelyn’

‘Evelyn’

Much deeper in colour is the David Austin ‘ Summer birdcall ’ which he describes as burn orange . I love this rise and it is fabulously fragrant .

‘ Morning Song ’

Amongst the yellows my front-runner is another David Austin develop , the mounting ‘ Teasing Georgia ’

Lady Hillingdon

Lady Hillingdon

‘ Teasing Georgia ’

We will be here all twenty-four hours if I list all my roses so here is a mosaic of some of them .

Crambe cordifolia

‘Buff Beauty’

‘Buff Beauty’

Philadelphushas such a pleasant-tasting orange blossom bouquet that it is a near approximation to have it dot about the garden . I grow it by my gate and at the end of paths . The gold leaved form show up beautifully in a suspect corner .

Philadelphus coronarius‘Aureus ’

paeony do n’t last long but they are a wonderful gilded June flower . Have you ever smelt them ? I have a wonderful book written by the French writer , Colette call in ‘ Pour un Herbier ‘ She spell beautiful descriptions of flowers and I was intrigued when she wrote that peonies smell of peonies or in other words- ‘ le hanneton ’ . I had to look this Son up and get hold that it mean ‘ cockchafer ’ . These are beetle which are called May hemipteran in Suffolk . My son lives on a boat , ( I showed you his jetty garden last year . ) He has May bugs crashing onto his jetty in May and early June , although I never see them here . He is charmed by them and when he take for up his fingerbreadth they bring on it . I find it odd that he like them so much , pass on his repugnance of roach , which look pretty standardized to me . He say they are endearing because they have cute eyebrows . When I asked him what they smell out like , he said that he had never think of sniffing them . So we have to take Colette ’s word for it that they smell of peonies .

‘Grace’

‘Grace’

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I call up Colette must have been refer toPaeonia officinaliswhich has a rather out-and-out olfactory perception . By the mode , if you would like to read a transformation of her book , there is one called : ‘ Flowers and Fruit’,edited by Robert Phelps and translated by Matthew Ward . It is not a particularly good transformation , but it gives you some estimation of her lyric writing . Actually I do n’t acknowledge how true she is at account flower odour . She allege that Lilac smells of scarab mallet . How on earth did she hump ?

Some paeony have a wonderful fragrance . I have sex the creamy whitePaeonia lactiflora‘Duchesse de Nemours ’ . It smells delectable .

‘Morning Song’

‘Morning Song’

Paonia lactiflora‘Duchesse de Nemours ’

I will finish with some adorable sweet-smelling pinks which do n’t smell of beetle of any sort .

Dianthus

‘Teasing Georgia’

‘Teasing Georgia’

Thanks toWellywomanandBacklaneNotebookfor inclose this meme . Ali atthelonggardenpathis very keen on odour in the garden too , so do go and see what bouquet she is enjoying at the mo .

61 Responses toScent in the June Garden.

What a corking idea for a meme ! I was n’t aware of this one , but I will have to chime in ! You have some stunning rose . I have a easygoing pip for the corking / apricot unity , too , but especially the peachy pink single like ‘ Grace . ’ I miss my peony : They ’re done for the twelvemonth . 😦

Your garden must be a tremendous place for all the senses , Chloris . No peonies here , nor many roses , much the pity .

All your pink wine are fantastic , the single I have imbed have all been choose for their perfume . I love it when scent waft round the garden on the breeze and I ’m following it like a Bisto Kid ! Love the photo of the May bug , what a super face !

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I would have enjoyed that fete too – I run across Derry Watkins last yr at the Grow London show and thought she was astonishing , so much passion for her plants . We do n’t have many rose grow in the garden but it ’s the one flower that I always cease to smell . Such a disappointment when roses do n’t have scent . I think another trip down to the Rose Garden in Regent ’s Park might be on the cards for me after reading this !

Oh how divinely decadent to be smother with rose petals Chloris . You have some gems in your garden . Do you know the identity element of the one in the bottom remaining hand box of your collage ? Our way of life may have foil last weekend as we were all go down to head to the ‘ Gardening In The Wild ’ festival but vehicle problems come up so we had to stay put 😦 It voice as if you enjoyed it . We came across a May hemipterous insect in Shropshire a couple of years ago . I never noticed its eyebrows or any scent at the time but if I encounter one again I will approach it in a different light source .