This garden includes a variety of different pastel colors from pink to apricot to lavender, yellow and creamy white. Unlike a thorn, a prickle can be easily broken off the plant because it is really a feature of the outer layers rather than part of the wood, like a thorn. And rose stems are often armed with sharp prickles – they aren’t thorns at all. Rose leaves can have anywhere from two to 13 leaflets. The leaves of the rose are described as “pinnate” – meaning there is a central rib and then leaflets off to each side, with one terminal leaflet. Floribundas or cluster-flowered roses have many flowers per stem and tend to repeat-flower continuously from summer to late autumn. Hybrid tea roses, also called large-flowered roses, usually have only one flower per stem and tend to flower in three flushes from summer to late autumn. We planted floribunda roses, hybrid tea roses, and shrub roses. The back of the leaf is usually a lighter green with a distinct white mid-vein.Īll of these roses came from Danielle Hahn, author of the new book “The Color of Roses,” published by Ten Speed Press. They range from half inch to one inch long and are dark, glossy, and green on top. Boxwood is native to western and southern Europe, southwest, southern and eastern Asia, Africa, Madagascar, northernmost South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.īoxwood leaves are evergreen and remain on the plant through the winter. These smaller boxwood, which I’ve nurtured from bare-root cuttings fill in the rest of the perimeter.īuxus is a genus of about 70 species in the family Buxaceae. Large boxwood shrubs anchor the corners and mark the middle and main footpath of the garden.

The entire garden is surrounded with boxwood. This garden was completed in spring and already all the rose bushes have grown – we planted more than 120 roses in this space.

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