Yates 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, plus a feature on her roses at the Atlanta Rose Society (March edition), and at Help me Find Roses
There is also a feature on Roger Manns website - a mentor and good friend of my mothers.
Yvonnes Garden -
Roger Mann.
Books by Roger Mann:
Roses - Showcasing The World's Favourite Flower