The Rose Garden. Sissinghurst.

The spring up garden at Sissinghurst is famous not just because of the wonderful roses but for the direction the roses are complemented by the color and textures of what is grown with them . Vita was never particularly interested in grow them with leaf but with other flowers which await estimable with them and extend the season too . I first go steady this wonderful garden many years ago and was animate to uprise old fashioned rosebush on hazel benders in the elbow room they are done here . The roses in the photograph show how it is done but ideally they should clothe the sticks and break out in peak all the way down the stalk .

Vita wrote lyrically about sometime fashioned roses in her book:‘In Your Garden ‘ She was captivated by the scent and beautiful form of the Damasks , the Gallicas , the Hybrid Perpetuals and the Bourbons and also the romance and story . She was particularly dandy on the Bourbons and they are indeed very beautiful and have inherited all the scent of their Damask parents . I followed Vita ’s case and planted many of these old roses with romantic names . The trouble is that many of the Bourbons and Hybrid Perpetuals are incredibly beautiful and fragrant but are plagued with black spot . I am sure that if Vita was alive today she would plant David Austin rose as well as the old fashioned ones . Rosa‘Charles de Mills ’ is a very healthy Gallica which does n’t seem to be susceptible to blackspot . I leave to insure the label but I suppose this is the endearing moss uprise ‘ William Lobb ’ I am not trusted who William Lobb was but I love the antiquey shade of this rose which usually seems to be very healthy . Clematis front fabulous with roses . ThisClematis texensislooks like ‘ Etoile Rose ’ to me .

I ’m not certain but I think the next clematis isClematis venosa violacea . It looks great with the pink wine and withIrislaevigata‘Rose Queen ’ .

As well as Clematis there are Sweet Peas climbing up pyramids . I loved this one growing with the elegantStipagigantea .

There are one or two yellow flowers in the roseate garden which I thought scratch a jarring banknote . But the persil white of this gorgeousFilipendula hexapelatais lovely . A lovely white flowering shrub complements the rose wine too . It is the summer floweringViburnum x hilleri . It is significant to have strong vertical with all this froth and there are plenty of gorgeous delphiniums . I love this tallThalictrumtoo . The next plant is the lovelyFrancoa sonchifoliawhich is easy from seed . I do n’t know what other people find about theAlchemilla mollis . I am not groovy on the yellowness here . Much more satisfying in my eye is the gorgeousStachys macrantha . I attend it here for the first metre years ago and tried to grow it . It never did very well , I think it needs quite a bit of wet . genus Lilium regalelooks wonderful with roses . It needs to be well fed to keep going year after year but it is very straightaway and easy from seed . Do n’t you love the trivial Osteospermum ‘ Whirligig ’ at its feet?Vita ’s favouriteAlliumwasAllium albo- pilosumwhich we now call ‘ Christophii ’ . It look lovely planted in a froth like this . Vita said:‘the general effect is of a vast mauve - and - fleeceable cobweb flicker with its own lightsomeness and buoyancy . ’I think I must be the only person to dislike the trite use of small boxwood hedge to imprison efflorescence beds . I think the days of this one are number as it has the dreaded boxwood blight . I reckon it looks painful . The dainty Angel ’s Fishing Rod;Dieramagrown with the greenBallota acetabulosaand theVerbascummakes a much prettier , soft sharpness to the seam . I’ll finish with aSalviaand aPenstemon , both unexampled to me . I think thisPenstemonis gorgeous and so unusual . It might be unmanageable to get across down though . It has n’t even get a name , just a collection number . PenstemonPC & H.148.The lovely soft pinkSalviais emphatically on my wants list . It isSalvia greggii‘Stormy Pink’ . My present garden is matured with fully grown shrub and tree diagram . I no longer have a white canvas to produce a roseate garden as I did before . rose have to be cram in wherever I can find a spot . Perhaps its just as well , those hazel benders need replacing regularly and the rosebush retrained . It is a briery and time consume chore looking after everything . One necessitate blank and ideally a squad of fairy workers to care for it all whilst you sleep .

50 Responses toThe Rose Garden. Sissinghurst.

The accompanying flora sure add to the rose garden . I ’m with you in that if everything else is in the pink , regal , grim side of the colour chart , then the yellowish jars . The imperial lily look so beautiful with the roses , they piece up the purpleness on the outside of the lilies . Lovely exposure , thanks .

I ’ve really enjoyed both your Post about Sissinghurst Chloris . It remains the garden that I would wish to visit more than any other . I was hoping that it might find this year to lionize bragging birthday but it looks like it will be September time if it happens . What do you believe about the timing ? I ’ve chew the fat Great Dixter in September but they are such dissimilar garden . Oh for some of those faery workers 🙂

Your exposure are so awing . I went back and fourth 3 or 4 time to look for plant I could n’t name and thought would bet nice in my garden . My growing conditions are fairly alike to this garden .

The Rose Garden. Sissinghurst.