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Victorian Roses in Shades of Autumn

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The Victorian era paintings of roses on postcards are near and dear to my heart. I grew up in a town full of Victorian's, a few mansions, and lots and lots of Victorian gardens. Not all the homes in our town were mansions, but most sported beautiful gardens. I can just imagine the town ladies sharing perennials and bulbs with one another ever early spring as they thinned and prepared their gardens. Each year their gardens got bigger and better. It is amazing how many starts and slips were taken from one parent plant and passed on from new generations of the same plant year after year. It amazes my mind to think about the heritage that has survived those original plants of so long ago.

My grandmother had a mini Victorian home, only two small bedrooms in her little home situated on a narrow, but long town lot. The front fence was draped with honeysuckle and the front porch was draped in trumpet-vine. Two massively tall, bright blue hydrangeas took up the two front corners, with mounds of pansies, violas and violets carpeting the ground. There were peonies and iris -- and running down the narrow north was my favorites, massive ferns, surrounded by columbine and lily of the valley and tender bleeding heart. And, taking center were two huge, towering camellia bushes with slick, shining leaves, one bright, pinkish red and one a dainty pink.

The best of Victorian's were in the huge back yard, a rose garden with paths leading from bush to bush with more little violets in pinks, purples and whites underfoot. Her roses were in so many shades and so many sizes, no miniatures like we have in pots at the supermarket today, but small bushes with lush, clusters of roses. And many more towering way over my head, and many of the roses had trunks, literally trunks-- like small trees --bearing witness to their true Victorian and earlier heritage of being planted over 100 years prior to my setting foot on the pathways.

I'm sure it was in my Grandmother's Victorian Gardens I found my love of roses. I planted my first when I was only 18 in my first home. Dug it up 10 years later when I moved, along with one of grandma's peonies. When I moved to Idaho 25 years ago I dug up my rose and planted it for the third time, along with Grandma's peony and they both are still blooming to this day, testament to just how long those Victorian starts can last.
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grandmapegs

Dotty,you are welcome!

dotshell

This makes me think of rose gardens in England and Canada. Thank you! Dotty

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