My Top Ten list of Fragrant Roses

October 22, 2014Sandra

Double Delight for Fragrance

In the previous post I promised to give you a list of my favourite fragrant roses. Well, I couldn’t limit it to 5 perfect roses so here is my top ten list of the best fragrant roses that I have chosen for my garden.

What is my own personal favourite among all these fragrant roses?

First prize for Fragrance

I have given first prize to Double Delight. It has the strongest and loveliest perfume of all and it’s spectacular to look at with its lovely two tone colour. It also lasts for ages in the vase without dropping its petals. And the bush is prolific and strong. A really superb rose.

So here is my choice for the top ten most fragrant roses – in no particular order. They all have a wonderful fragrance and add something special to my rose garden.

Choose any one of the following roses and you’ll be captivated by its lovely perfume.

Double Delight
Duftwolke (Fragrant Cloud)
Just Joey
Mister Lincoln
Garden Queen
Red n Fragrant
Ingrid Bergman
Electron
Pappa Meilland
Crimson Glory

How I chose the best Fragrant Roses for my Garden

August 11, 2009Sandra

It was inevitable that I would want to get hold of the best fragrant roses ever! What is a real rose without a perfume?

Unfortunately, so many roses today have been hybridized out of their scents!

But I was not to be daunted. I was determined to find the best fragrant roses out there no matter what their shape or size.

A fragrant rose

So I flipped through all the catalogues I could find and tried to choose what were going to be my 5 most highly perfumed roses.

But did it work for me?

Of course not! You can’t smell a catalogue.

Back to the nursery where I promised myself I wouldn’t buy a single rose this time if it didn’t have a powerful perfume!

So there I was flitting down the nursery path delicately sniffing at each rose like an overweight butterfly!

Don’t go that route! It’s overwhelming and all you end up with is a bee up your nose!

I’ll save you the bother and tell you what worked for me after much trial and error. In the next post I’ll tell you about my top 5 fragrant roses. I promise you – they’re real winners!

Choosing the Best Roses for my Garden

June 3, 2009Sandra

I love roses. Roses of every size, shape and colour. My problem has always been which roses not to choose because I love them all. Whenever I go to a rose nursery to choose my roses in spring it’s as if I’ve been let loose in a garden paradise.

A Rose from my Garden

I tend to go home with roses that I didn’t have the faintest intention of buying. And it happens every time. So to be more practical, I try to adopt a system that almost – I repeat almost – ensures that I will go home with the best roses for my garden.

I draw up a list of all the qualities that I want from my new roses. Am I going to go for perfume this time or do I want a particular colour? Do I need a new climber for the pergola or do I want a few rambling roses for the bank?

In actual fact, it isn’t as easy as it sounds because in my enthusiasm I tend to want absolutely everything I see when there is such a huge variety to choose from. Rose catalogues are no help at all because everything looks so tempting. So I have to remind myself to be disciplined. I will only go for colour this time.

Do you think it works? Not at all. I come home with a mixed variety of “temptations” every time.

Oh well, at least it adds interest to my garden. You never know how the new roses will turn out – and I suppose that element of anticipation and surprise is what makes gardening with roses so much fun.