The garden has started to wind down. There are still a surprising number of flowers left but gaps are appearing in the borders and it's a good time to reflect on what I can do to improve the colours for next year. We planted purples two years ago; lavender, salvias, verbena bonariensis, delphinium, fan lobelia - lots and lots of purple. The bees love it, and we love the bees. We added some white roses last year for contrast and it's been a very restful colour scheme. Now we'd like to add a splash of colour here and there to give it a little lift, a bit like adding a zest of lime to a drink. I have chosen apricot roses from David Austin, so nothing too zesty but with enough presence to lift and balance our colour scheme. It is difficult to be modest when perusing the long list of Austin roses... I managed to narrow it down to these three:
Sweet Juliet
Abraham Darby
Julia's Rose
I like unashamedly romantic English roses in the garden, like Sweet Juliet and Abraham Darby. Julia's Rose is a little wild card but I think the toffee-lilac colouring looks intriguing - and it is apparently much loved by florists, so it should look good in bouquets for the house.
David Austin is offering 15% off all rose orders until the end of October when using the offer code KHF.
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