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).
Lovely blog Pixie. I imagine many of the roses have a story to them. I'd love to hear them :)
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