Gattina's Garden

Unbelievably hardy and reliably cheerful!

I bought these as tiny plants on the internet. It's a small miracle that all of them survived the journey fr...

I sneakily dug up plants of this from our builders' merchant's carpark where it was growing as a weed, ...

These grow in the shaded areas (under trees and bushes, mostly) and are also to be found growing wild locally in...

I'd been looking for one of these for ages, then three came along at once! Such a gorgeous blue.

I always thought this was supposed to be "Sundance" but is growing in semi-shade, so has lost it's...

I have no idea what variety this is, but it is growing quite happily on a hot, dry bank. I love it!

This is now enormous and covers a north-west facing wall up three storeys. It takes a bit of keeping in check, b...

This is getting too big and is dying off in the middle, but the scent and the metallic blue berries in winter ar...

Growing out of a stone wall, and obviously loves hot sunshine. Obviously hardy, too.

The three trees we have are filling the garden with their strange scent (May). Make wonderful elderflower cordia...

Beautiful colour - slow to bear catkins and nuts

Seems to be getting paler with the years

Much happier now their feet get cooked - moved out of a shady bed 2 years ago.

Very vigorous climber - always the first rose in the garden to flower. Blooms rarely last more than a day but ar...

Enormous, very vigorous rose, beautifully scented of apples. Quite disease and pest resistant.

Very vigorous climbing rose, with deep, red tinged, healthy and thick foliage. Pest and disease resistant. Mildl...

My favourite rose. Very, very intensely perfumed, deep red velvety flowers, dense, deep green foliage tinged wit...

A David Austin Rose - very delicate and inclined to throw suckers - light scent and pink buds opening to smallis...

Thornless, faintly scented, shade-tolerant rose. Susceptible to aphids and black spot and not very vigorous.

Wonderful, juicy, tasty-fruited bush/tree. Fruit ready June/July, with a second flush in September. Needs lots o...

highly scented, deep red rose. ! Glossy dark green foliage. Very beautiful.

Very vigorous climber with beautiful, pale pink/white/green tinged petals and glossy dark foliage. Not susceptib...

Pretty white climber with very glossy, healthy dark green foliage. Nicely scented, and grows quite well in the s...

Apricot coloured, sparse-leaved climber with rather stiff stems and a propensity to develop bad case of blackspo...

Prune after flowering, which usually happens in mid April, and feed.