The rose i spoke about in my last blog was called 'Crown Princess Margareta' and I've been asked to write a description of it. It's a Modern rose bred by David Austin (UK) in 2000 and is one of the most popular David Austin roses ever. It has large apricot and peachy coloured blooms with many petals. (I just love those roses with hundreds of petals all crammed together!)
It grows on a tall shrub, flowers for a long season, and has a beautifully stong tea-rose perfume. There is also a shortish climbing version of the same rose.
You'll be able to admire this evocative, sweet-smelling rose for yourself at the National Rose Garden at Woolmers near Longford from the end of October right through summer until the first frosts.
An anonymous writer tells me she hopes Crown Princess Mary will one day visit the Rose Garden and smell the lovely perfume of the rose to which she has family ties. I do thoroughly endorse that sentiment - it would indeed be lovely if the Princess were to visit Woolmers.
Crown Princess Mary - who, as I've mentioned, has married into the royal family of that other Crown Princess Margareta, has another rose named specially for her. A hybrid Tea rose bred by Australian rose breeder George Thomas was dedicated to the bride upon her wedding to Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark in 2004. This is a rose with large pale pink and ivory blooms and it has a light frangrance.
Sadly, no, we don't have this lovely rose in the Rose Garden at Woolmners, but we're working on planting new roses all the time.
We do have other roses growning there with connections to royal personages and I'll be happy to reveal some of those connections soon!
(P.S. Princess Mary has now left these shores after her, all to short, stay).
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark connects with the National Rose Garden at Woolmers
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark connects with the National Rose Garden at Woolmers - (reads the headline in my head). And the story goes something like this - Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, now visiting family in Hobart, has a connection with one of the roses in our Rose Garden at Woolmers near Longford in the state's north.
Ha! (Do I hear you say?) That's a pretty tenuous connection. I admit it does smack of the old saying "I danced with the man who danced with the girl who danced with the Prince of Wales!"
But wait! It gets even more slender!
Our rose is called 'Crown Princess Margareta' and it's a popular David Austin Rose with a strong tea-rose fragrance and it was named for a much loved lady who was called 'the Flower Princess'. She was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria and as a young woman met and fell in love with Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden. The couple (in between producing five children) designed and created one of the most beautiful gardens in Scandanavia around their castle at Helsingborg, which belongs to the people of Sweden to this day.
And - here's the connection!
The present royal families of Sweden and Denmark are the grandchildren and great grandchildren of that Crown Princess Margareta. Our very own Mary Donaldson has married into the royal family descended from the Crown Princess Margareta. And now she's expecting twins - in case you live on Mars and don't know this important fact yet!
This rose is just one of the reasons why you should visit the National Rose Garden at Woolmers, when it's in bloom and there are millions of others (roses that is - all providing you with millions of reasons to visit). All these roses will be in glorious bloom in a matter of weeks - from the end of October in fact.
P.S. I can come up with even more tenuous links between roses and royalty - just watch this space!
Ha! (Do I hear you say?) That's a pretty tenuous connection. I admit it does smack of the old saying "I danced with the man who danced with the girl who danced with the Prince of Wales!"
But wait! It gets even more slender!
Our rose is called 'Crown Princess Margareta' and it's a popular David Austin Rose with a strong tea-rose fragrance and it was named for a much loved lady who was called 'the Flower Princess'. She was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria and as a young woman met and fell in love with Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden. The couple (in between producing five children) designed and created one of the most beautiful gardens in Scandanavia around their castle at Helsingborg, which belongs to the people of Sweden to this day.
And - here's the connection!
The present royal families of Sweden and Denmark are the grandchildren and great grandchildren of that Crown Princess Margareta. Our very own Mary Donaldson has married into the royal family descended from the Crown Princess Margareta. And now she's expecting twins - in case you live on Mars and don't know this important fact yet!
This rose is just one of the reasons why you should visit the National Rose Garden at Woolmers, when it's in bloom and there are millions of others (roses that is - all providing you with millions of reasons to visit). All these roses will be in glorious bloom in a matter of weeks - from the end of October in fact.
P.S. I can come up with even more tenuous links between roses and royalty - just watch this space!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
National Rose Garden
The National Rose Garden is located at World Heritage Listed site of Woolmers Estate in Longford, Tasmania, Australia. Stay tuned for lots of stories about the National Rose Garden.
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