A perfumed climbing rose I planted at the bottom of my garden. It always gives a good show of flowers but is a bit vicious to prune being full of very sharp thorns. Hope you are all feeling as good as possible today and that a cure will be found for use soon.
X Helen
Beautiful, thank you for sharing this I always love the garden pics xxx
Proceed with caution. Man with pruner had a nasty recaction to run in with a rose thorn. We're back and forth to the hospital for months.
I can eat raspberries. But picking and pruning them bring out a nasty rash wherever i have the slightest scratch. 
Absolutely gorgeous! I can almost smell them, beautiful colour too. They remind me of my childhood. Thanks for sharing X
So beautiful! ! Thanks for sharing as I do live any kind of flowers. Peck.🐤
This is the type of rose that i wanted and was on the picture of the packet that it came in..
It is not what i got. I ended up with a single petal rose, white instead of differing shades of peach. with flowers that only last one day.I hadnt the heart to dig it up. but now that my gazebo has rotted away it will have to go as part of the changes that we want to make.
Change can be a problem but it is a wonderful chance to do something better or completely different that you would never have considered before. This goes for everything. I hate change - it knocks me out of my comfort zone but usually it is great and I wonder why I havent done it before. Hope you get something fabulous for your garden, and low maintenance too. I like to buy plants when they are in flower - you always get whats on the label.
X Helen
The bottom half of the garden was hubbys playground
He used to grow veg and do woodwork and carpentry.now that he can no longer do gardening we intend to do away with the trellis across the middle and have a longer lawn. But still have a feature of some sort a bit further down from where the rotten gazebo was.
We are still looking for Ideas. But have been too busy doing other things to do more than discuss it.
Here is an idea - its what I am trying to do in my garden. I have planted large perennials that will spread. I chose an assortment to flower a different times so the colour would be throughout the growing season. I also planted bulbs. During winter I hire someone to cut and clear all the dead material. It seems to be working well, although some of the stronger varieties as out competing the others. Dont mind much. It is still full of life - birds, frogs etc. Hope you find a solution which suits.
X Helen
Ideally i want somewhere to sit that is shady and cuts down on chilly wind.
Our garden is too wet for bulbs they just rot and no flower could survive an excited border collie. 
We rely on dog proof shrubs that just need cutting back once a year. 
Beautiful.
Love Roses, they are one of my favourite flowers, but why do they breed them to have no smell, dont get that, one of my strongest childhood memories is of my Granda's front garden full of Peace Roses and the wonderful smell,..its beautiful Helen. Lyzzie.
Many lovely flowers have been bred for their form and growth habits and this has led to loss of fragrance - the freesia is a typical example. It is a great shame. This rose was bought at Prestos which dates it!! It was in a sale and had lost its label. I was just starting my garden and on a limited budget, so I grabbed it. It is always lovely and has repaid me many times with its gorgeous scent and lush growth. As an auntie of mine once said - 'if it dont smell spray it with perfume' - she always had a great outlook on life.
X Helen
Like that, your right about the Freesias, mum loved those too, also Pinks, that wonderful clove smell they used to have, she always brought one call Mrs Jeykll [famous gardening lady whose name I cant spell] as it was about the only one left that did still have the old fashioned smell. I would love to be able to go back to my childhood just to smell those wonderful smells again, remember Night scented stocks? as for spraying with perfume, do you recall one terrible one called Evening in Paris, I remember that it came from Woolies and stank something awful, more like evening at the local rubbish dump! ah, the good old days, but some scents really are provocative arnt they?
That is absolutely wonderful my friend, thank you so much for sharing it is genuinely appreciated
Sister arrives next week 
eight weeks on LDN update
Good week 
