Monday, May 28, 2012

Gertrude Jekyll Rose

Gertrude Jekyll rose is an English rose by David Austin. It is a deep pink English rose with a very fragrant sweet old English rose scent. Like atypical English rose, the flower is very double with lots of petals. The scent of the blooms are so strong a vase of of it's flowers will perfume an entire room. 


In Southern California, the  rose will continue to bloom from early spring until late summer. The bush is tall and strong, the foliage are healthy and I never have any problem.

 
This rose is named after Gertrude Jekyll, a famous English gardener and writer. She is remembered for her subtle approach to the arrangement of plants in the gardens she created.She arranged the plants by colors that look like Impressionistic paintings. She arranged plants for color effect.Some suggested that she arranges plants according to color because of her deteriorating eyesight. In a border, lighter colored plants are planted in front and darker colored plants are planted at the back.


I have planted three of this roses and I have not pruned one of them last spring. I was surprised that it had lateral shoots although the blooms from the lateral shoots are not as big. Gertrude Jekyll is a perfect climbing  rose for small gardens.

10 comments:

  1. Your Gertrude Jekyll rose looks so lovely. It's shade of pink looks so pretty and the flower form is so well developed.

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    1. The problem with Gertrude Jekyll is it blooms only once a year but the blooms are really lovely and it is so fragrant. Worth waiting to bloom once a year.

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  2. Wow, your Gertrude Jekyl rose looks so lovely. The pink color looks so vibrant.

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    1. One of the best pink rose I have ever seen

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  3. Love the picture of your rose, it is so beautiful.

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  4. You really take good pictures. The first picture is really lovely.

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  5. What a beautiful pink rose, it looks really lovely.

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  6. Wow those are great pictures of a pink rose specially the first picture.

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  7. Those are lovely roses the pink color is very refreshing

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  8. To me Jertrude Jekyl is the best pink English rose, it is very fragrant, large and just pretty.

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