Incidentally, if you love roses

[karadinart]

The Sherlock Holmes Rose.




"What a lovely thing a rose is! [...] Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."

SH

available at Harkness (who developed this variety as St. Richard of Chichester)
http://www.roses.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh000001.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eroses%2eco%2euk%2facatalog%2fnewfor2011%2ehtml&WD=st%20richard&PN=St%2e_Richard_of_Chichester%2ehtml%23a182#a182

Comments

[stardust-made.livejournal.com]

I grow roses on my small balcony garden, but I sincerely hope to have a real garden one day with that rose in it. The quote is one of my favourite quotes ever, not just from Sherlock Holmes! Thanks for the beautiful photo.:)

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I would love to make a garden one day, I have the space, just not the dosh right now, maybe a front garden next year.