A good year for the roses!!

Thank you, J! (but roses are about all I have! lol!) :)

That "Cocktail", I planted in my old garden as well - and I saw it the other day - (and again without any care since I left) it was magnificent!!!!

It's a slow starter...but once it gets going...!

lovely and very summery like yourself :))))))))))) I do like the Sharlachglut very much Karen - but they're all superb - our roses just budding at the moment

Oh! You noticed, Paul!! May is oot - I had to change my clouts! lol!!! ;))))))))))))

The roses are going mad, here! All at once!! :))))))

Lovely roses you've got there Karen, gorgeous colours :)

You've got lots of beautiful roses Karen :o) It's been a pleasure to see them ...

All absolutely gorgeous K!!!!!!!! See you managed to squeeze a wee beastie in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gorgeous - all of them!
Thought that about the wee beastie too Pixi :)

Aye she's a one for them isnt she!

Thank you Suzy, Pixi, Scottish and Hywell! :)
Glad that you've enjoyed seeing them too...
...that was my first beastie of the year! (apart from that bagful of bugs - which I fed to the chickens - they thought they were dee-lish-us!!)

lovely roses Karen.! Im feeling their scent.

Lovely roses and lovely photos! Mine are good this year too - perhaps the strange weather that has badly affected everything else is TLC for roses?

Thank you, Bik...they all smell wonderful - except "Sorbet Fruité, which has no scent at all! :)

I was a bit worried when I got back, Nariz...they were covered in buds - but it looked like they were all going to be small wizened flowers. Luckily, it was only the first few which were affected.

Did you have that late "deep-freeze" too?

I had that on a few of Loves knot but now its covered in buds a lot of them open now..its the most beautiful rose but it has no scnet at all..hmm..wonder why only ceratin flowers have scent.. oh I stol a bit of honeysuckle and something else from Falkland Palace gardens..the yellow honeysuckle as such a gorgeous scent..have the cuttings in water so i hope it takes..mmmmmmmm heavenly :) oh p.s. dont tell anyone lol

Actually the price was so expensive to get in..so i dont feel guilty at all!!!!!

loads of nice colour there Karen, must be full of scent in your garden...

I think that it's shocking how much they want for that visit, Pix!!

Thanks SL! :)
but...I wish I was at that stage where I could relax for a bit and enjoy it! Too, too much digging still involved... :/

Yep..and hey when i saw your blog ttitle i thought of Elvis Costello

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySQlU3hussQ

Love that snog :)

I know that song, Pixi...and strangely that's where this blog title came from...

I hate Elvis Costello, tho'...my ex used to play him all the time...his voice used to give me a headache...! :/

Hi , Karen , beautiful roses , not a strong point with us , we have a few , but I find it surprising that they all manage to smell slightly different ; you would know that it was a rose , but not the same smell .
( Not well explained by me , I'm afraid .)

lol Its aout the only one I like!

Ha! I know what you mean Driad...my little new one came with a label that described the perfume as 'rose citronée'...

...so...now that I've got to grips with the wine bouquet...

On to the roses! lol!

He's got such a whiny voice, Pix...I think the worst was, 'indoor fireworks'................. ;(

lol I know! Hated Oliver's army! grrr

There's one about a rose in Spanish Harlem , not by EC but quite pleasant !
By the way I think that EC writes all sorts of songs for other people , even if he does not sing well himself .
Did you see just what the Bee Gee's had written ? Just amazing !

"There is a rose in Spanish Harlem..darara, darara, darara, ra..."
Love it! Reggae version, tho', Driad! :)

The BeeGees were really amazing...spanned 40+ years - and always brilliant!!!

and there's always My love is like a red red rose\"!
beegees..not my fav but taleneted....sing up hen\!

Oooooh no.....
You really wouldn't want me to do that...honestly! :/

Hehe ;)

lol!!! :)

So would it be...
Oh my love is like a red red rose
That's newly sprung in June
Oh My-y Love is like a melody
that's never sung in tune?
hahaha

Hahaha! DEFINITELY!!!

Beautiful Karen.... So healthy too.

Thank you, Funguy! :)

;)

I'd wanted that one for two years, HB...and if that late "deep-freeze" hadn't killed everything, forcing me to rethink the whole garden, I'd probably still be admiring it and wishing I had somewhere to put it. So it was a "happy accident" in the end. :)

Pity we don't have smellyvision to allow us to enjoy your early flowering roses.

Smellyvision wouldn'd work with the fruity one, Sg...not a whiff...but these old ones that I inherited, well...! :)))

I really enjoyed this blog. Beautiful roses and so well photographed too.

Thank you, very much, Inverglen! :)