Vanessa's favourite plant is the Rose and we both love an old fashioned rambler called Wedding Day.
Wedding Day has a short flowering period but it is just the most beautiful, romantic rose with a heady, seductive scent. Its pale apricot buds open to a creamy-yellow flower fading to a pure white cluster in mid Summer. We make the most of every day it is in bloom.
I have just erected a rusted rose arch between the vegetable garden and the orchard. On either side I have planted Wedding Day along with a Clematis called Chevalier. This is a relatively new variety and extremely free-flowering from May to September. I selected it for its velvet, purple, star shaped, sepaled flowers which will age to a mid blue with maturity. The combination of a white rose and a purple clematis will be the perfect combination for the arch while also framing the view quite beautifully into the orchard from the vegetable garden.
In another spot next to an old knarled tree I have planted another old favourite - Rambling Rector. With its vigorous growth, good old Rambling Rector should soon be up the tree in no time and flowering with its white, fragrant semi-double flowers. Next to it I planted another clematis - 'The President' - with its attractive large rich purple flowers. This again should free flower from May until September.
Then it was into the vegetable garden to begin work planting first early Potatoes (a couple of varieties), some Lettuce, Broccoli, Mange Tout and Sugar Snap Peas. And with the Easter holidays and the long weekend it has been a joy to be out in the garden working on a series of small projects. Fun and rewarding.
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