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Writing Reference: Roses

Reigning over the flower garden, roses are coveted for their exquisite blooms, tantalizing perfume, and long flowering season.

TYPES OF ROSES

Climbing roses - the thick rigid canes of climbing roses allow for a beautiful show of blossoms on a wall, trellis, or arbor; may be trained on wires fixed to a pergola or series of arches to provide a tunnel of flowers, foliage, and scent in a traditional garden design

Groundcover roses - sometimes called landscape roses, these were developed to be easy to care for and useful for planting in mass

Modern roses - this group, developed after 1867, includes the hybrid tea, floribunda, grandiflora, miniature, and English roses

Old garden roses - sometimes called heritage roses, this group includes gallica, damask, alba, centifolia, and bourbon

Patio and miniature roses - averaging 12in (30cm) tall, miniature roses are ideal for the front of the flower bed or as a container plant

Rambling roses - an annual display of thick clusters of small flowers on long, slender, and flexible canes make this rose a favorite to many

Shrub roses - many shrub roses result from crossing old and modern roses to develop more hardy and disease-resistant selections; can be trained as standards; you can use them in pots to flank a doorway or as a centerpiece in formal designs

Species roses - can be divided into 4 groups by their place of origin, either Europe, America, the Middle east, or Asia; make excellent hedges with their tough, disease-resistant foliage and early-summer flowers, followed by decorative hips; their thorns also help to deter intruders

NOTES

Roses have been grown for thousands of years and are celebrated for their beautiful, scented blooms and diverse habits.

They suffer from a number of diseases, most notably black spot, which causes the foliage to discolor and drop off.

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‘DE MEAUX’

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The Lesser Known Types of Roses

There are different kinds of roses available everywhere. You can buy some of them from flower markets, and others are available in flower shops. It is probably easier and cost-effective to purchase roses than those which are not very familiar to most of us.

However, buying or owning roses that are too uncommon makes your rose collection more immense value given the fact these roses are rare and are less known by many.

 Cultivating and Growing Rare Roses

Rare roses provide a more authentic experience to anyone who lays an eye on it. Red rose to be the most popular type of rose carry special meanings such as devotion and love. But what if you give someone the kind of unique feeling that they don’t usually get when receiving the common types of roses, we know.

Variety of roses are often sold and offered by many flower shops, and florists have mastered the arts of arranging several kinds of roses that are perfect for any celebration.

So, what are the rarest types of roses that most people do not know?

Cabbage Rose

Known also as Rose Centifolia or Provence Rose, Cabbage Rose has a Dutch origin and was known to have cultivated between the 17th and 18th centuries. Cabbage roses are known for their shrubby and beautiful shade of deep pink. These round roses are popular for their one-hundred-petaled bloom, which is why they are called Centifolia (which means a hundred petal rose). This kind of rose produces a strong and overpowering perfume.

These roses are disease-resistant plants that can hold out against winter and bloom only once per season.

Rose Grasshopper

This unusual and unique rose is pale yellow garden-like roses that are usually sourced directly from Holland. These kinds of roses are priced moderately. Rose Grasshoppers are incredibly fragrant and are often recognized for their extravagant form and scents.

Damask Roses

According to some stories, Damask Roses have been gracing the world since ancient time. Damask roses are one of the oldest rose varieties, these roses are renowned for their fragrance and are often used in making perfumes, creams and more. Damask roses are also known for the edibility of its petals.

Damask roses can reach up to 7 ft. in height and have a pinkish color. Because it is one of the oldest varieties of roses, Damask roses have given birth to hundreds and thousands of new rose varieties while maintaining its unique and ancient heritage.

Grandiflora

Grandiflora is known for its visibly large flowers. As the name suggests, these kinds of roses are larger than hybrid teas. Grandifloras are also recognized as one of the taller kind in the new rose class. These roses’ color would go from soft pastels to deeper purples and produce distinctive and sweet floral fragrance.

Miniature Roses

Miniature roses are roses that are naturally bred to stay in smaller sizes. Miniature roses are smaller versions of typical roses. These roses first came into existence after an accidental hybridizing of roses in the early 1930s.

They may be small, but these miniature roses are correctly scaled and are offered in a variety of colors and types. Gardeners who have limited space can utilize these small yet amazing roses by growing and cultivating them in containers.

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Short stay: Fairmont St Andrews, Scotland, UK

By Michael Edwards on Aug 19, 2019 in Accommodation, Europe, Featured, Food and Drink, Going Out, Hotels, Leisure Travel, Regions, Resorts, Restaurants, Spas & Pampering, Speciality Travel, Travel Miscellany, United Kingdom, Western Europe

St Andrews is the spiritual home of golf pulling in players from afar. Hosting a final qualifier for the British Open, the Sam Torrance and Kittocks Course provide a challenging course for serious golfers.

Scottish hospitality blends with top notch American-style service at Fairmont St Andrews to provide far more than just golf.

The welcome

There’s a warm welcome from Davey in his Stewart clan tartan trousers and Tam o’ Shanter hat. His team will valet park your car, look after luggage and store your golf-clubs.

Quickly settled in your room there’s a unique welcome gift, a miniature bottle of St. Andrews whisky as well as a miniature chocolate golf club and ball.

The rooms

Spacious Sea View rooms look out across emerald acres over the Kittocks course towards St Andrews Bay. Subtle decor gets the Scottish theme just about right. There’s a discrete grey tartan pattern to the carpet and tasteful Tam o’ Shanter themed photos on the caramel walls.

Technology galore: ample UK and US charging points, wide screen TV and reliable Wi-fi plus coffee-maker, kettle and an exceptionally well-stocked mini-bar.

Beds are huge, armchairs comfortable and there’s a large desk if you really have to work.

The bathroom

Recently refurbished with a light grey slate-look, bathrooms offer a deep bath and a high quality rainfall shower. It’s a perfect rejuvenating feature for golfers who have had a long day on the courses.

Rose 31 body lotion, conditioner and shampoo are personalised with your name on the bottles. The rare Centifolia rose, a fragrance with spicy and woody notes, ambiguously plays to both feminine and masculine users.

The facilities

At the gym, pool and spa you could run your own transformative boot camp – if that’s what really you want. But if you seek the tranquility of a serene candle-scented spa you’ve got that too.

The gym is very well-equipped and tends to double-up or even treble up on options to minimise waiting.

There’s a crescent of exercise bikes for spin classes as there’s a daily programme of exercise classes: from aqua sessions through to yoga.

For golfers who’ve flown many hours and played several rounds restorative massages and recuperative physiotherapy are available.

Lunch or dinner at the Fairmont St Andrew Grill, with stunning views of finishing holes of the Kittocks course and St Andrews Bay, is undoubtedly a must. The closed Josper Grill, with precise temperature control, preserves the natural texture of Scottish steaks and lobster. Though it is hard to resist the Seafood Platter: oysters, lobster, chunks of salmon and smoked salmon, crayfish and prawns. Back at the hotel the Cucina has a Mediterranean themed menu while the Zephyr Sports Bar goes vegan.

The location

Fairmont St Andrew is set in 520 acres of prime St Andrews headland just a couple of miles from Scotland’s historic university town where Wills meet Kate. Alongside the ruins of St Andrews Cathedral, there is a chic town of fashionable boutiques, classy cafes and great restaurants.

Astoundingly St Andrews Old Course shuts down for the Sabbath. On Sundays people walk their Westies and picnic on what is public-owned land. Stand on the Swilcan Bridge, on the 18th, dreaming that it’s the last hole of the Open and that you’re three strokes clear of the field.

Other nice touches

There’s a baronial splendour to the architecture of the lobby. A touch of Lady Macbeth aspirational design to the primeval twisted wood sculptures and the towering sombre portraits. Breakfast on hearty porridge and haggis in the atrium – or lighter more contemporary offerings if you choose.

After breakfast pause in the library for a moment to drink in the views through a towering picture window. Also Fairmont St Andrews recently took the AA’s award for Eco Hotel of the year.

Cost

Nightly rates at Fairmont St Andrews start at £179 per night, based on two people sharing on a bed and breakfast basis.

Although 18 holes may cost £95 there are plenty of offers available including twilight tee-off reductions.

The best bit

The two golf courses channel the spirit of St Andrews’s historic Old Course: babbling burns, deep pot and revetted bunkers, breath-taking coastal views, firm-running fairways, impenetrable rough of white wispy grasses and thistles …

Not only are you playing against your opponents you are battling the elements and topography too. There’s a strategic decision to be made before playing almost every stroke.

The final verdict

This is far too good a destination to rush, more than just a short stay. Far too many golfers race in and out on whistle-stop tours. Linger for a few days to relax in the spa, savour the Grill’s menu, take a walk over the Old Course and drink-in St Andrew’s rich history.

Disclosure: Our stay was sponsored by Fairmont St Andrews.

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3 Main Groups:

Roses are divided into 3 main groups: Species (wild) roses & their hybrids, Old Garden roses and Modern roses. Species roses are typically large climbing or shrub-like roses with single, flat flowers blooming in late spring or early summer followed by hips (seeds) in autumn. They are the parents of the modern roses we have today. Old Garden Roses include the following classes: Alba, Ayrshire, Bourbon, Boursault, Centifolia, China, Damask, Gallica, Hybrid Perpetual, Moss, Noisette, Portland, Ramblers and Tea. Modern Roses are a broad mix which include the following types: Climbing, Floribunda, Grandiflora, Hybrid Musk, Hybrid Rugosa, Hybrid Tea, Landscape (including Groundcover) or Shrub, Miniature, Mini-flora and Polyantha. The American Rose Society currently recognizes 37 classes of roses.

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THE GARDEN NOW IN LATER OCTOBER, AND HARLEQUIN BUGS

I can feel the peak blooming coming. I love this stage though before all has unfolded as it promises so much and nothing has gone down to mar the perfection. I rather dread that time when everything has peaked and is spent and the garden is looking so messy it all has to be cut back. Then it is a little ugly until growth resumes but it does rather quickly thank goodness.

We have had record numbers of the dreaded harlequin beetle this year. This creature loves nothing better than grouping together with its young or adolescent children and friends on the unopened buds of the flowers and on certain leaves in the early morning and the evening. They makes tiny holes in the best foliage, reducing them to lace. The only way to control them is to pick them off the plants and squash them, which I do, but if there is a really big gathering I will spray them with insect spray. One beetle can produce a heaped tablespoon full of babies very quickly and these are often born after rain. There are rather a lot of choice plants at their disposal in our garden but I do wish they would move on to the neighbours’ gardens. I came upon a group of hundreds on our back fence and it appeared that many mothers had had babies together. I ran inside to get the spray and blasted them (feeling awful at doing so) and thought that one spray would significantly reduce the numbers, but no, they seem to have increased instead.

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THE MINIATURE CENTIFOLIA ROSE ‘DE MEAUX’

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MINIATURE CENTIFOLIA ROSE ‘ROSE DE MEAUX’

This beautiful little rose, a miniature cabbage rose really, was sometimes named Rosa Pomponia in the early 19th century. Our two bushes only grow to about 80 centimetres but they thrive in the sunny front garden. Some of the branches have a habit of dying off but new wood comes in the autumn. The leaves are tiny and lovely and they frame the blooms most effectively.The flowers have a musky, sweet scent. 

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THE LUSH PINK ROSES OF SPRING

“Mary Rose’ is superlative in the spring, especially if you cut the bush hard in winter and fertilise well with organic matter. ‘De Meaux’, the miniature Centifolia rose is also a delight in spring and since it only has one flowering there is much to savour for the short time of its blooming. This is when nature astonishes with its perfection. To be a bee and rustle in amongst all this scented glory must surely distract even them from their busy and important work.

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OLD AND DAVID AUSTIN ROSES BY LAMPLIGHT

The charming little roses in the foreground are ‘De Meaux’, a miniature Centifolia rose that was known in the eighteenth century. The cherub salt cellars are nineteenth century. On the left is a jar of ‘Sombreuil’, ‘Reine des Violettes’ and ‘President de Seze’. The clematis is ‘Piilu’. On the right is a vase of pink ‘Heritage’ and yellow ‘Graham Thomas’ blooms, two famous Austin roses that have white Floribunda ‘Iceberg’ in their ‘blood’. The porcelain, Bernardaud’s ‘Constance’ was purchased from their Rue Royale shop in Paris in 2000. I like the effect of the lamps here as they give the scene a tranquil softness.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: TWO OF MY FAVOURITE SPRING ROSES

The quilted wine-dark roses above are David Austin’s ‘The Prince’, a superb garden bush that constantly throws up new burgundy wood and flowers. In spring the lush velvety blooms are heavy with damask infused petals. It really is quite remarkable then. The flowers at other times are lovely but not as spectacular. The charming striped rose here is ‘Rosa Mundi’, one of my all time favourite Gallica roses. I absolutely adore this rose and wait all year for its short period of bloom. It comes and goes so quickly. Our two low plants flower in our box edged front garden in mid-November, the pair of miniature Centifolia roses ‘Du Meaux’ flowering before ‘RM’ and the two Gallica roses ‘Du Maitre L’Ecole’ flowering afterwards. If we have had excessive rain the leaves of ‘RM’ do mildew a little but it doesn’t mar the effect too much. The flowers are very transitory and don’t last in a vase but that only makes one treasure them all the more. I love the boss of golden yellow stamens against the pink and white colouring. Our bushes of lovely rough bright green foliage have their bristly stems staked with bamboo to train and balance the shape of the bush and to ensure that the flowers don't drag the stems downwards..The latter is a sport or mutation from Rosa ‘Versicolour’, the old medicinal rose. These very old roses are such a joy. They are actually living antiques that have survived the vicissitudes of time and taste. The hand painted saucer is Gien.

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‘PRESIDENT DE SEZE’, A 19TH CENTURY GALLICA ROSE, AND ‘DE MEAUX’, A MINIATURE CENTIFOLIA ROSE BRED IN THE 18TH CENTURY

If you are unfamiliar with old roses, here are two beauties to consider. ‘P de S’ is just coming out. The blooms become more beautiful as they age, relaxing into exquisite forms and heightened colours. I adore the rough leaves of the Gallica rose bushes as they are such a textural contrast to the delicate flowers.

‘De M’ is an interesting rose, the tiny blooms starting off bright pink but then mellowing into softer hues and the loveliest of forms. A profusion of tiny serrated leaves frame the flowers. We have two plants either side of the front door.

I prune both these roses after flowering, rather than in winter.

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THE FRONT GARDEN ON A WARM LATE NOVEMBER MORNING

The old roses are out. ‘du Maitre d’Ecole’ is the bright pink at the back and in the foreground is Rosa Mundi, the striped beauty from the 16th century. Some of these blooms have reverted back to the pink parent plant, Rosa Versicolour. The little rose on the right that has almost finished blooming is the pale pink ‘de Meaux’, a miniature Centifolia rose from the 18th century. There is also hot pink lychnis coronaria, or rose campion, an essential perennial plant, in front of the lavender that blooms mid December.