June Rose Tour, David Austin Roses In My Cottage Garden// Cottoverdi

Hi everybody, welcome back to Cotto Verde, my name's Annette and today I thought I'd do another sort of little mini rose tour and show you other roses that are now in bloom in the garden. There is another rose tour that I did earlier on in the month that's available on my channel, in fact I'll put a link in the description below in case you want to catch that too after you've watched this video. So today we're starting on the bottom bed here and I'm going to show you the roses that are in bloom and then just take you a tour of the garden, I may even include the front garden too because it's looking spectacular and I just really want to capture the beauty of the roses in June before they get to the end of their first flush because the second flush is just never quite as good, I just feel like June is rose month and I've got so many roses that are doing really well this year. I don't know what it is, maybe it's the weather or something like that, we had a really really rainy start to the season which has caused black spot in my garden, I don't tend to use any chemicals on that but I've got a bit of propping up to do today as well that I'll include in part of the video and I'm probably going to do some deadheading but let me show you the roses and everything else that's looking fantastic at the moment. What I'm also going to do is talk about the roses and the coloration of the roses and the size of the roses because all roses are different and I just really want to share with everybody and what I like about the particular roses that I've got in the garden, so I am going to include some information about that and I'll put the names up on the screen and if I've got the sizes that they grow to when they're full size I'll include that as well. So starting with the bottom bed here, this is the area where we've got some fruit trees, so I've got two apple trees and a plum tree, so this is a circus or a redbud and because it's got these gorgeous or supposed to have these gorgeous multicolored leaves with a bit of pink, a touch of pink, I've created this area here to sort of complement that. So we've got some white achillea at the front, we've got this gorgeous rose called souvenir and let me take you on a close-up. So this is one of my least floriferous roses but the size of the rose blooms are absolutely incredible. Look at this gorgeous creamy white outer with the pink inner petals, I think it's an absolute stunner. It's so full it just feels a little bit like an ice cream It's on really strong sturdy stems, lovely deep green leaves and this rose is, I think it's in its second or third year. So there are three roses out at the moment but I've got a lot more buds coming which is very exciting and I do think that the achillea the pearl, which is just a really beautiful button shaped achillea, looks really cute with it. I just really like the white, it's complementing it nicely. So around this rose I've also planted, I've got some snapdragons here, some dahlias, there was a peony that I had here called Kansas and that's gone over. I've got some gorgeous gladioli, so there's another sort of pink and white gladioli over there and I've also got some gorgeous nicotiana or nicotiana, I know everyone says it very differently. This one is called crimson bedder, it will get much taller than that but it's just coming into flower which is super exciting. So as we move along in front of the red bud I've got some gypsophila that's just about to come into bloom. These dark leaf plants here are dahlias called wishes and dreams which will be stunning. I've got a little Veronica over here in the corner that's called Erica and it's newly planted this year and it's not particularly floriferous but I have, you know, I have a feeling that it's going to complement this rose beautifully, so it's got just a couple of spikes of pink at the moment. There's a Viola left over from the winter just over here and the last of my red ankylos just going over. So I don't know what's going on with this red bud, I have a feeling that it's very sick and it's not doing well, so it's sort of started to leaf out and these leaves, you know, they're still alive, they're just not getting any bigger. It's really weird, I've got a lot of dead stems which I could probably prune off to be honest with you, but this tree is not growing at all, it's not happy and I have a feeling we're going to have to replace it, which is such a shame because almost everything I've planted around here is based on this tree. So as we move along to these new gorgeous obelisks, I haven't planted the roses yet, I really need to get them in. This dahlia that's just popping out there is called Sasha and then right behind it, we'll go around the other side in a minute, but that is Rosendale Natasha and that was one of the first ones to flower in the garden. And then we come across to this gorgeous rose here. Festive Jewel is one of the first roses to flower in my garden. I'm just going to do a quick bit of deadheading whilst we're out here. If we keep deadheading the roses they just flower for so much longer and I find it quite a satisfying job to be honest with you. But once I've deadheaded it, then I can prop it up and it won't be lying all over my dahlias. You've probably seen me using these stakes before, but I find these stakes are really handy. I'm not sure why this whole stem is falling over. So Festive Jewel is in its second year for me. We didn't have very many roses last year at all, but the buds start off pink, about the size of my thumb, with little white edges and then as they mature they've got like this peachy tinge, which is just so attractive. Really pretty and they open out really nicely, which is good for the pollinators, but it means that we end up with, you know, pink and peach on the same rose and so it's just really colorful. I'm not surprised it's called Festive Jewel. So this penstemon at the front here is called Arabesque Apple Blossom and I've got the same one in front of my Rose Harlow car outside the kitchen and it's just so pretty because it's mostly white with tiny hints of pink on it and so it complements everything really nicely. You can just see a really, really red patch of clarkia at the back there. Just ignore all the plastic in the background. If we cover that up it looks so much better. So as we swing around we've got Souvenir over here, this is the Dying Red Bud and then this is Festive Jewel with the gorgeous creamy white penstemon and as we keep moving around I've got some more of the Crimson Bedder Nicotiana and then look at that spark of orange. This is sort of coming to the warmer end of my border so there's a lot more corals and oranges up this end. So that rose over there is called Rosemary Harkness and just behind it is a rose called Susan Daniel. Let me take you over there around that side so we can have a look at those but I just want to point out just where Cosmo is there's a snapdragon and it's called Double Shot Peach and obviously, I mean, I planted it there for a reason but look how beautifully they complement each other. So this is Rosemary Harkness. Now a lot of the roses are facing this way because this is the sunny side of the border but look at the color on that. I don't even think that my camera is capturing the color on that but it's just as fabulously lovely bright orange. Now obviously the flowers are brighter when they first start out with like little yellow centers and then they fade to this sort of more creamy color that we've got. The sun's just come out so it's hard to see but there's a more creamy color as they as they get older. I would describe this as a very much more apricot than it is peach. So again these blooms are quite large, not quite as big as Souvenir but they are so pretty. Look at that incredible yellow center and this is a super healthy plant so this is definitely one of the least affected by black spot and then just where Cosmo is going this is Susan Daniel. This is definitely a more pale apricot than Rosemary Harkness. It's in the same color tones but just, you know, there's a lot lighter looking so if you're not really into deep apricot then this might be the rose to go for. It's very much the same size, the leaves are very similar, it's got a very similar habit, there's touches of pink inside the buds. So what I really like is the color of the Susan Daniel against the darker foliage behind it. I think it sets it off really nicely. I also have, and I can't remember the name of this plant, I'm going to have to look it up and put it on the screen, but I also have a shrub over here with these really pretty very corally orange blooms on them. I really wish I could remember the name of this plant. So I've just come to the other side of the bed now, so over here we have, this is the souvenir rose, the dying redbud, Rosendale Natasha, the dahlia flower that's out. You can see there's a lot of bare ground, I still need to plant the climbing rose at the bottom of the obelisks. This is Festive Jewel, so this is the Arabesque Apple Blossom Penstemon, and then as we move along you can see that I've got some darker foliage plants here. I bought these at a plant fair and they're not well labeled, so I struggle to remember the names. This is Raspberry Harkness, this is Susan Daniel, and then you can just catch a glimpse of the Physicarpus at the back here. So I've got some Artemisia, this is the Eliagnus Quicksilver which I absolutely adore, and this is Kinsley's Ghost Honeysuckle. And then what's really hard to capture on camera is that, you know, next to the oranges and the darker foliage I've also got some self-seeded Verbena Bonariensis. Now this is taller than me, it's at least six foot tall and I think it's absolutely fabulous, but the purples and the peaches and oranges, I think they look so cute. This is the plant I can't remember the name of. I've got some really sweet sweet peas here, so these sweet peas are called Alissa, and I did also plant it with a sweet pea called Claranthus, but it has not survived the slug attacks. But Alissa's doing really well, and look how cute that color looks with the Artemisia in the background. So this is the Dart's Cold Physicarpus. At the front here we've got a lovely rose that's just coming into bud, definitely the last to flower in my garden. This one's called Julia's Rose, I can't show you what it's going to look like unfortunately. There are more snaps and dahlias planted in here, but this rose here is called Sweet Honey and it's very much along the lines of Rosemary Harkness and Susan Daniel. Let me show you this rose close up. There's also some lovely purple Agrostemma, grown from seed, just coming into flower. This is a Bascombe at the back, that's been flowering for absolutely ages, and some more Nicotiana Crimson Bedder. So this rose here is Sweet Honey and it needs a little bit of deadheading, so I'll just do that. But Sweet Honey has got, well it starts off this color, so very much apricot-y, very dark apricot buds, turns to apricot roses, and then the roses become paler and paler with pink undersides, and then when they finish, they kind of finish this creamy color with pink dots around the edges. It's ever so sweet and so there's just a lot of variation on this rose, which I really like. Now you can see this rose is quite young, there are some more buds coming, but I wasn't expecting a lot of flowers this year and actually it's flowered really well. I think we only planted it at the very end of last year, so I'm really super happy with it. And then just behind it I've got a Cosmos which is just starting to flower, it's still a little bit short but it will grow, this one is called Xenia. And then at the front here, I mean obviously in years to come this will work a lot better because this rose will get a lot taller, but at the front here I've got a lovely purple Physis Stygia, a Bedian plant. This one's called Rose Bouquet, so I'm going to have sort of oranges and pinks and purples, and then I've got even more Sweet Peas. So I'm right down at the other end of the bed now, you may have guessed, so we started off all the way down there, kind of worked halfway, then we ran the other side. It's a bit muddled, but we're around here next to the Sweet Peas. Now it is really important to pick the Sweet Peas whenever they're growing because that way you get more flowers. It's the only way to encourage your Sweet Peas to keep flowering and keep blooming through the season is water them, feed them and pick them. And so I do need to pick them, but I really wanted them to look pretty today for this filming, so that you could see what they look like growing up the obelisk, because obviously when I pick every single bloom it just doesn't look the same, so I'm spoiling myself a little bit by keeping quite so many of them on the obelisk. Let's take a look at what I'm growing by way of Sweet Peas. They do also need to be tied in a little bit, so I think this is Rosy Frills, this is Spring Sunshine Champagne, so it's got more sort of on the warmer shade of pink with a lot of the sort of cream as it starts, and then it's easier to see over on this bed here, because I think Patricia Marilyn is the only one that has grown on this obelisk, or is the only one that's in flower at the moment is Patricia Marilyn. Right, let's get back to Roses. So as we come along here, this is what we call the log store end of this border, because of the untidy log store in the background, so ignore that. This is Sweet Honey just here, and then all the Vibascum in the front, which is gorgeous, and I've got some Misty Lavender Larkspur. I really like to complement peachy colors with mauvey colors. Here I've got two Coco Loco roses, which I absolutely love. I'm supposed to have three, but one didn't make it, we had moved it too many times. These were one of the first roses to bloom in my garden, and I absolutely adore them, just because I find the color is unusual and different, and it does start off sort of coffee colored or cappuccino colored, and then turns into this lovely dusty mauve color, which I really, really like. I'm just going to do a bit of deadheading here whilst we're at it. This is my Leaning Over Misty Lavender Larkspur, so it's very cute, it's just all leaning over a bit too much. And then as we move along from the Coco Locos, I've got one more rose over here, and this one is Spicy Parfumer, and I think this one looks so pretty with the coloration of the Eliagnus in the background. Let me just deadhead that. Unfortunately we've just missed these particular flowers here, but we've got one and I've got loads more buds to come, so Spicy Parfumer is again one of these really soft gentle pinks. You can tell the colors that I like with my roses, but just look how pretty that is, and these are really nice big chunky roses as well. Oh my goodness it smells good! And just behind it, it's hard to see, but I do have a Snapdragon from last year. I think that one is Bridal Pink, so that's going to look really cute in about a week's time when it starts to flower with Spicy Parfumer. So just over here around the other side of the Eliagnus, it's very easy to see that I keep with my color schemes most years. I mean that's because the perennials are always going to be the same color, but look at this gorgeous Snapdragon. This is called Apple Blossom and this has come back again from last year, and that just always makes me really happy when Snapdragons make it through the winter. So I could include a tour of this gorgeous border behind me. This is the grass border that we planted up this year and it does look wonderful, but I wanted to focus on the roses today before they go over. So I'm going to kind of skip it, include a few of the roses that are in there, there aren't many, and then I'm going to finish up with some roses that I included in a previous video, but I want to make sure that this sort of includes all the roses that are blooming now. And there are some roses that are blooming now that weren't looking so fabulous a few weeks ago. So I'm going to carry on with the rose tour and just skim over this grass border and then what I'll do is I'll do a video in a week or so's time discussing the grass border and how it's coming along. So on the sunny side of the grass border I do have three roses, this one on the end here is called Tranquility and I've got one called Lady Salisbury and then this is Litchfield Angel. So Tranquility is supposed to be the most perfect creamy white color or whitey cream color, but actually mine has definitely got touches of pink in it, which is lovely, I don't mind that at all. This rose here that I'm about to deadhead has flowered already and what I'll do is I'll put up on the screen a picture, if I've got video footage of how it looks when it was in flower, I'll put that up up now because actually at the moment there aren't any flowers, it just really badly needs deadheading. In fact I would say that this rose is my least healthy rose in the entire garden and may well need to be replaced. And if I'm being completely 100% honest with you all, it's not my favorite rose, so I don't even think that the roses themselves are that spectacular. Now this rose here has got to be the most annoying rose in the whole wide world because it's just leaning over the wrong way. Why is it all facing that way and why are they flopping so much? This is really annoying. So this is Litchfield Angel, it is glorious, glamorous, beautiful white rose. I almost feel like we have to get into the flower bed to see what it really looks like and even then I'm not convinced we're going to get a good look. Why are my roses drooping like that? I don't understand what's going on, like I don't get that, it's not supposed to do that, this rose is really annoying. Has anybody got any idea why my rose is doing this? I just don't get it, it's so pretty, why droop? Don't droop on me, stand up straight, be proud. I don't get it, I'm gonna give it another year. Okay so if we swing all the way around, these roses here are gorgeous, they're called Chandos Beauty, so these again start off very peachy and then fade to a more creamy white colour. I'm just going to deadhead this one here, look at these roses, they're huge, the size of my hand. This is a more pinky coloured peach than the other roses we were looking at in the hotter border and you know they do fade to a more creamy white as they go over. I mean look at the size of this one, look at the size of that, it's enormous. So you can see that I really like to, you know, hold a bit of purple up against the peachy orange colours. So I'm going to have some dahlias here very very soon and I've got some snaps left over from last year just here, let me take you around there. I think this lovely ivory snap goes really well with these roses. And then swinging round again, so underneath this new pergola we have some more roses. So this rose here is called Felicia and it needs deadheading. This was newly planted this year so I'm really pleased that I'm getting some decent flowers out of it because I wasn't convinced that I would. So I've just I've been deadheading it regularly just to encourage more blooms and I can see loads more buds forming which is nice. These are really small flowers and I knew this and it's also a less formal looking plant, it's more untidy. So this is what Felicia looks like, I think it's really sweet, peachy apricot tones again. So this is where Felicia is in this space here and this is Woolerton Old Hall which I am training up this pergola. So Woolerton Old Hall is just so pretty, more on the sort of yellowy lines, not huge blooms yet but again we only planted this this year. But oh my goodness look at that, so it starts off with yellow buds and fades to cream. They're really full, very soft and gentle. Look at those yellow buds. Then just on this side of the pergola, this is another climber here, this one is called Penny Lane and these are the only two blooms I have so far. It's not growing very fast but I just I don't mind that, it's probably just you know growing some roots. And then right behind it is one of my brightest roses, this is called Robin Hood and it's one of these roses that's got absolutely loads of flowers on the end of each stem but it's a really lovely bright spark. So then as we move down here, this is the border that I have all of my Queen of Sweden roses. I've got six Queen of Sweden roses and they looked fabulous last time I filmed here. This one here is still flowering and looking super cute. So directly opposite I've got another gorgeous rose, this one is called Cream Abundance and this one's been flowering for absolutely ages too. Cream Abundance has sort of I'd say medium sized blooms and they very definitely are creamy in the middle and then they fade to this gorgeous fluffy very buttery pale cream colour. If you've been following along with my garden vlogs then you will have seen me strap this rose up. This is called Pride and Prejudice, I think it is the perfect name for this rose because I've never seen a rose more Jane Austen like in my entire life. Look at the old worldy charm of this rose, every single bloom is out of this world, it's just like a painting. Pride and Prejudice, highly recommend, I'm in love with this rose. This is Jacques Cartier, I feel like I've shown this really recently but I'm just going to deadhead whilst I'm here and going on the rose tour so I can see some more are coming out. It's just so pretty, it's got a really tight knot in the centre. We are now coming on to my pièce de résistance which is this rose over here called Eustachie of I. Let me take you around the other side because Eustachie of I is out doing herself this year. I couldn't be more in love with this rose, I love the combination of the colours, dusty pink, dusty apricot and it is blooming its socks off. I do have three roses here in this space, I just don't even feel like the filming footage is going to do it justice. You probably want to know how big the blooms are, I'd say just slightly larger than medium, so almost on the size of large but not quite, so these are not small blooms, they're huge and they are making me so happy. I feel like this colour combination is absolutely stunning with the Eustachie of I. You're probably wondering which salvia I've got planted amongst the Eustachie of I, this is called cool cream and I just really love the white with the pops of deep purple. On this climbing arch I've got Boscobel over here, Clare Austin on this end and the generous gardener on this end and they have been blooming for weeks. I also have some of my first dahlias, so I've got Seniors Hope over here and Wizard of Oz here and obviously a Larkspur there. So this is the generous gardener and this is Clare Austin. So Clare Austin is definitely flowering later than the generous gardener for me, but it's just as pretty, very very full blooms, not huge on the small to medium size I would say and then I think Boscobel is also a stunner, really really rich colour. So Boscobel is a medium sized rose, deeper pink than a lot of my other choices and then over here on what we like to call the top bed this rose is called Comte de Chambord. So I think Comte de Chambord is pink, almost Barbie pink and again some lovely tightly packed medium-sized blooms and they pretty much keep their colour, they don't change too much, I mean they fade a little bit as they get very old. So we're over on the patio beds now and I want to give a shout out to this gorgeous rose which is called Cheshire Rose and it's a beautiful pastel-y pink colour with a lot of cream in it but it has these wonderful clusters, I mean all the way along the whole length of the stem, clusters and clusters of roses, it really is a fantastic ground cover rose. Let me show you another one that I've got along here, it's mixed in with some wonderful self-seeded Blue Nigella, how fantastic is that? Really sets it off nicely, what a wonderful contrast. And then last but not least is this amazing rose here called Harlequin, if you've been following my channel for a while you'll know that I love this rose for the scent and the number of blooms and for how long it flowers for, it really needs deadheading but I'm not doing that on film today because it would take too long. But right in front of it, first of all this is Schizanthus that I grew from seed, I am never not growing that again, it is always going to be part of my repertoire, it's been flowering and blooming for over a month and hopefully it's going to keep going, but also I've got Adelia, heart and arse. So this is Harlequin, you can see there's quite a lot of deadheading to do and I will do that, I always deadhead because then your roses just keep blooming. So again this is Harlequin with the penstemon called Arabesque Apple Blossom and I just, I don't know, I really like these colours together, I think it's really cute. There's one more little rose I want to talk about today and that is this rose here called Cutie Pie and it really is very cute, it's a lovely little patio pot rose and again this one will bloom for weeks. It's filled out really nicely this year, I'm really pleased with it. This is James Galway at the front of the house and the blooms start off this darker pink and then fade to a gorgeous dusty pink. I did show these recently in a video, this is a rose called Little White Pet and it's sort of a ground cover rose really. It's got very small, almost the same size as my Cheshire Rose, so it's got very small, very heavily blossomed tips to, look how many flowers there are on the end of that stem. So there's like a touch of peachy pink in it but they are mostly white. So this is my Madame Alfred Carrier that's only flowering at the very top. It's on a shady wall, it's pretty much north-facing, it gets very little sun and it's quite leggy but I do have some blooms this year so it seems to have recovered from its earlier sulk. This is Septet Isle which is another David Austin. It's got very uniform colored, perfectly pale pink, very pastel pink roses and they're just this lovely cupped shape. They are quite small like compared to my hand. They aren't huge but they just have this really lovely rounded cup shape and they're very full and I think they look really nice with the blue in the background from that conifer. But that's about it for today. I've tried to position myself so I've got Eustacia Via in the background here, I've got Pride and Prejudice over here. These roses are just bringing me so much joy at the moment. I don't know if that came across in this vlog but I'm enjoying them so much this year and I don't know whether that's because they're slightly more mature plants now and so I'm getting even more blooms but I'm loving all the roses but these in particular I'm like wow you're incredible! Anyway if you've enjoyed this video do give it a like, it really does help me and if you'd like to see more tours like this I'll be starting my daily tours soon so if you don't want to miss those then subscribe to my channel, follow along. I want to say thank you to everybody, a big shout out to all my regular followers and anyone who's subscribed because I hit 10,000 subscribers the other day which was incredible and YouTube sent me a little email to congratulate me but to think that 10,000 people or more now are interested in following along with my garden and my journey and putting up with me. 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