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What’s prettier than a White Rose?

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Wordless Wednesday

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My new Climbing Iceberg rose is blooming for the first time in my garden.

I bought this rose a couple of months ago as a replacement for another rose that didn’t make it through our winter … well actually through the beginning of summer. It had been alive in the early spring. Perhaps I let it dry out too much or something.

Iceberg is a lovely white rose. The flowers are about two inches across and as you can see this flower has several petals which give it a nice full look. It has a very light scent. You can really smell this flower unless you get very close. Well I can’t smell it until I get right up to it anyway.

Anyone else grow iceberg?






Is this a jasmine or not?

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Wordless Wednesday

Burning question. I bought this plant a few years ago. You know how some nurseries and garden centers don’t always have specific labels on their plants? Well this was marked as being a jasmine and as best as I can tell after looking at several varieties I think it’s Jasmine Sambac. Still I’ve never been fully sure.

Is this even a jasmine? It blooms day or night and the flowers last at least 24 hours unlike many of the other jasmines that I’ve owned in the past which have only bloomed at night time. The flowers are fragrant, but the scent doesn’t waft. You must get up close to smell it’s beautiful scent.

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Here’s what the flowers look like on the plant:

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Can you help me figure it out?

Such a fluffy rose

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Sharifa Asma English Rose

Sharifa Asma – a lovely English rose.

Just looking at this photo brings the scent of this rose to mind. It has one of the most beautiful rose scents that I’ve ever smelled.

My Sharifa Asma is about five years old and grows to approximately 3 to 4 feet in height each year. It’s fairly hardy, probably a zone four with some protection.

It’s flowers are multi-petaled as shown above. They are what I call “fluffy” roses. They have more of an old rose look when the flower bud is first opening but as the flower matures the petals let loose and you get a full and fluffy look like I’ve pictured above.

Do you grow English Roses? Which ones are your favorites?

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