A Celebration of June.

The best of the year has arrived , its crowning aureole . Now at last , it is the time for the flowered aristocrats ; rosebush and irises , poppies and peonies . These flowers await as if they are rationalize out of fertile fabrics ; silk , taffeta and velvet . The garden is spangled with deluxe colouring and dainty odor . ‘ Karlsruhe ’ is a mounting rise up from the 50s , but it has an one-time - fashioned look and tidy leaf . It look lovely against the dark foliage of a yew tree .

Rosa‘Karlsruhe ’

Every ego - respecting tudor house has to have roses growing up the walls .

Rosa‘Karlsruhe’

On the back wall , Zéphirine Drouhin is always full of heyday and it is thornless which is a great advantage as we pass it every time we step alfresco .

Rosa‘Zephirine Drouhin ’

Down the garden by the big pool , ‘ Teasing Georgia ’ seems unconcerned by the shade of the immense crying willow . She has gorgeous , rich yellow flower .

Rosa ‘Karlsruhe’

Rosa‘Karlsruhe’

Rosa‘Teasing Georgia ’

When we arrived here the garden had several sprawling rose which I intimately removed . Instead I pruned and feast them and now they look very passably . I planted some tallAconitum napellusby this one . This one is not a colour I would have chosen , but it front lovely with Stipa gigantea shimmer in front of it .

I am not certain which this next one is but I am glad I maintain it . I love undivided roses and it always starts flower early .

Nearby is the good piffling button hole rose ‘ Perle d’Or ’ .

Rosa‘Perle d’Or ’

I hump the deep apricot colour of grace of God ’ .

Rosa ‘Zephirine Drouhin’

Rosa‘Zephirine Drouhin’

Rosa‘Grace ’

‘ Evelyn ’ is a like apricot refinement but not as beautiful , or as graceful as Grace .

Rosa‘Evelyn ’

Rosa’Teasing Georgia'

Rosa‘Teasing Georgia’

Another David Austin uprise , ‘ Anne Boleyn ’ is healthy and will certainly stay , I have no design of chopping her nous off .

Rosa ‘ Anne Boleyn ’

The China roseRosa mutabilisis one of my favourites , its flowers look like flights of butterflies .

Rosa mutabilis

I sleep with undivided rose and a great favourite is the Burma arise , Rosa laevigata cooperi . It is a climbing move up with Brobdingnagian lily-white flush and glossy unripe leaves . I used to spring up it against a opprobrious shed which look marvellous . Now it has to content itself with a paries and a greengage tree . It spring up very cursorily , mine is only a six year old cutting .

Rosa laevigata cooperi

The idea of a blue rose is horrible and I do n’t recognise why ‘ Rhapsody in Blue ’ has such an off - putting name . Of course it is not blue , it is a lovely faded , antiquey , slatey mauve and I lie with it . I have a friend who detest it , I am certain she would like it if she did n’t think it was pretending to be naughty .

Rosa‘Rhapsody in Blue ’

Summer take us by surprise here in Suffolk . Last week Scotland and the West Country greedily hog all the available fair weather and left us with fart , rain and chilly days . In my Greenwich Village , gardeners were wrapped up in their fleeces and sou’westers and courageously solve until dusk to get ready for the Gardens Open Day on Sunday . Tired and engagement - aweary , but triumphant , on the big day we basked in the Sunday and the kind compliment of visitors . This hebdomad with sunny weather every day and everything looking large , for a abbreviated moment , we can laze in the sun , fuddle in the perfume of roses , philadelphus and honeysuckle . The bees are humming and the young sparrow are quarelling in the bushes . The sounds of June make full the air . Heaven .

The weather is double-dyed and for a brief moment we can be jobless . Hector is being a little over - conservative and disquieted about catching a chill .

Or maybe he is sulk because nobody will dally with him .

June means paeony and although I have intercourse exclusive flowers , I love the extravagance of petals on the overblown double peonies , they are so heavy that they can scarce hold their heads up . They prompt me of cleaning woman with far too much make up and over back - combed , blow up up , eighties coiffure . A touch of the Dolly Partons . But they are so lovely that they make me smile .

Rosa ‘Perle d’Or’

Rosa‘Perle d’Or’

Peonia‘Bowl of sweetheart ’

Peonia festiva maxima

Every old garden seems to have an oldPeonia officionalis‘Rubra plenum ’ , it is not as glamourous as modern hybrid , but still earns its place .

Rosa ‘grace’

Rosa‘Grace’

Peonia officionalis ‘ Rubra plean ’

I have intercourse the singles even more and I bid I knew what this trivial deary is . I do n’t remember plant it and have no estimate where it come from . It grows happily in the tone with the omnipresent little Welsh poppy , Meconopsiscambrica . My son commit me a beautiful tree peony some yr ago and I dig it up to take it with me . paeony resent being dug up and it break . But it had been engraft and to my delight this endearing single paeony develop from the base . I hump it .

Oriental poppies loll about langourously , but they are so beautiful that I do n’t listen . I palpate one should bring home the bacon a chaise - longue for them , rather than impolitely corralling them with stakes . When’Patty ’s Plum ’ first opens , the petals take care like crush tissue paper .

Rosa ‘Evelyn’

Rosa‘Evelyn’

Papaver orientalis‘Patty ’s Plum ’

The rose next to Patty is ‘ Pearl Drift ’ which was a gift from a dear friend . I aalso growPapaver‘Beauty of Livermere ’ which is a bright red and is difficult to put . But I have a sentimental attachment to it as my father always develop it . It is fine to stake this and make it stand to attention as it take care rather martial in its cherry cap . newfangled bearded irises are opening each day and I love them and can never get enough of them . I have friends who dislike the newer loanblend in their extravagant fancy dress and all their ruffle and frolls , like maid of honor at a big , fat gypsy wedding . They come in the most wonderful rainbow colours . I have a protagonist who always asks me anxiously if her raw industrial plant acquisition are plebeian . She must consider that I am the most dismaying industrial plant snob . For her natal day I bribe her Iris ‘ Carnaby ’ which is peach , orange and raspberry . I told her it is gloriously rough-cut , but gorgeous . I go for she enjoy it . Next year I will be scrounge a act of it . I have many irises that I do n’t hump the name of but I enjoy for their glorious colours .

Iris ‘ Benton Sheila ’

Rosa ‘Anne Boleyn’

Rosa ‘Anne Boleyn’

To enjoy June days to the maximum we have to have fragrance and I have philadelphus in every corner . This is the bush near the path to my two greenhouses . The far nursery is quite large and timber , but very old and hold back together principally by will major power and belike canal tape , as the Pianist has done a few repair jobs .

This golden - leaved one by the logic gate was pruned into a better shape last twelvemonth and has fewer blooms . But still it smack divine . Of course , there are better designed garden than mine , easily maintained and with ripe grown plants . Gardens with beautiful velvety lawn and exquisitely cut down hedges and topiary . garden with lakes and run and rattling sculptures . But on a June day like today , I do n’t begrudge anyone else their garden . Mine is paradise to me and I do n’t want to be anywhere else , but right here in my own Eden .

52 Responses toA Celebration of June.

Such looker all in one place ! I have a few of these plants in my own garden yet to come into flower , and certainly not yet to the same scale . I fuck your spiderweb gate too . Your photos can almost complot up the scents . Thank you for sharing .

Your garden is a hoarded wealth . There was nothing but cryptical sighs of enviousness coming from me through the entire post – first for the gorgeous rosiness , then for those peonies are unacceptable for me to uprise . And then you switch in a pot of beautiful Iris and poppies too !

I cogitate we all take to our garden in June . We are not as advanced as you are – it is still tree peony time here – but the garden is full of promises .

Rosa mutabilis

Rosa mutabilis

I ’m not surprised that you would not require to be anywhere else in June other than at dwelling house to lap up your fabulous garden . I ’m so happy that the temperateness get out for your garden undefended mean solar day Chloris . Your visitors must have recall that they were in heaven and would not have wanted to go home . Was it just your garden that open or a number of gardens in the hamlet ?