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Roses, Roses, All the Way

Susan's Roses: I don't know if this is more imaginative or unusual
than hardy geraniums etc but some of the hardy salvias work very well
with old roses, disguising any tendency to bare legs and flowering in
complementary colours at much the same time - and also extending the
flowering time by quite a while if you choose your species carefully.
One I'm particularly fond of is S. forsskaolii (spelling approximate,
for obvious reasons!) - big bold rough foliage and huge arching
flowering stems with purply-blue and white flowers in endless
succession and huge quantities - it begins here in May, is still going
strong now, and has at least another two or three weeks left. It looks
quite exotic but is actually bone hardy - and will grow and flourish
in the most unpromising situations.

Less Rosey:  Among other things and apart from her horticultural
oddities, Dodo Hanbury apparently thought that Mussolini was a
combination of Shakespeare and Cary Grant... Ok, so we all have our
weaknesses...

Very Rosey: Final thanks to Nick for The Final Solution to the Eugenia
Question (sighs of relief all round...?) and expression of (my own and
I'm sure general) gratitude that we've got such learned folks on the
list to haul the rest of us out of our nomenclatural mire.

Extremely Rosey: Indeed, a positive bouquet. My bloom to add to Rod's
and Deborah's. Yep, great list, great fun - and you learn stuff, too.

Anciently Rosey: Hear, hear to David's bouquet for C. Lloyd Esq. The
miserable old curmudgeon actually thinks about what he's seeing and
doing and then says what he thinks. Bliss! Mind you, since everyone
else in the UK  now seems to be planting bamboos and bananas and
cannas and crinums, he'll probably rip the whole garden apart again
before long and leap off into - what? - Nipponic stones and gravel and
moss... or Victorian bedding-out but with exotic grasses instead of
'geraniums'... or something equally improbable - and improbably
successful. 
Tim Longville
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