The exercise of adding an image to my post for week three has been a bit frustrating. I made at least three attempts to save this image to my blog through Blogger's photo upload tool. I did receive a message that there were difficulties so have delayed until now retrying, this time thankfully with success.
This rose is a recent addition to my garden, a real favourtie. It is a rougosa rose, highly scented and the most pure white.
The foilage always remains healthy and it is a great bush to plant near a window to deter burglars as it is extremely thorny. I have grown this in a previous garden with great success.
It grew to a beautiful round bush extending at least a metre across and with a similar height.
According to information found at http://www.csulb.edu/~odinthor/oldrose.html:
Rugosa roses are those derived from the thorny Japanese rose R. rugosa, the two main forms of which are wine-red and white. Though a few crosses had been made earlier (as early as the 1820's), in the 1890's several hybridizers became interested in working with the species due to its hardiness, health, vigor, and special beauty.
There is a place in France called Coubert but I cannot say for sure the rose was first hybridised there.
Have just been exploring Flickr color pickr and once again I have the problem of uploading an image. I enjoyed this color pickr, looking at Jbum in particular. What a great tool for color design and coordinating whether it be for interior decorating, clothing or gardening!!!!
