Yvonne Arnold : Gallery : Roses

Yvonne Arnold

gallery : roses

My mother, Yvonne Arnold, has a rose garden of some 500 roses, consisting roughly 350 varieties. She leans toward the old roses (tea, hybrid musk, bourbon, china, centifolia, moss, alba, damask, gallica, hybrid perpetuals, rugosa, noisettes, climbers & polyanthas), but also has about 150 modern varieties. The rose garden is mainly a mono culture - meaning roses, and not much else. There are clematis and bearded iris and the beds are edged with muscari and ipheion... and spanish blue-bells flower before the roses begin flowering in late October. The garden is colour coded & undulating like a painting. The roses are grown for our enjoyment and is a lovely place for invited guests to enjoy coffee or a port amongst the fragrance of thousands of rose blooms. The garden is located around the family home in the rolling Adelaide Hills, South Australia, with an un-interrupted view of Mount Lofty (the tallest mountain in south australia - though more like a large hill by US or European standards). The climate zone is zone 9, with sufficiently mild winters that some of the old tea roses flower nearly for the whole year. My mother and father also grow hundreds of native Australian plants and trees - in particular, father grows trees for the local "Trees for Life" program. A more comprehensive gallery of my mothers rose pictures is located at www.pbase.com/yvonneii

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