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A Book of Gardening: Ideas, Methods, Designs: A Practical Guide
(1995)  Page(s) 137.  
 
Mevrouw Nathalie Nypels flowers all summer if the dead-heads are regularly removed and it seems disease-free. The bushes are pruned hard at the end of March, and given a good mulch of compost....
(1995)  Page(s) 140.  
 
This rose is not available commercially, but can be seen at Bateman's where it is one of the roses that have replaced the original Polyantha roses which were available when Kipling planed the garden...
(1995)  Page(s) 43.  
 
Mrs. Oakley Fisher On the house terrace [of Mount Stewart, see Gardens] formal clipped bays are interrupted by beds of the apricot-flowered bush rose 'Mrs. Oakley Fisher'. These roses are underplanted with bronze-leaved Crocosmia 'Solfatare' with apricot-yellow flowers on 60 cm (2 ft) stems and pale blue Salvia patens 'Cambridge Blue'...
 
(1995)  Page(s) 105.  
 
Standards of the creamy-white rose 'Pascali' give height above 30 bushes of 'Dame Edith Helen', a 1920s Hybrid Tea duoble pink rose, underplanted with pink-flowering Potentilla 'Miss Willmott'.
(1995)  Page(s) 138, 214.  
 
Page 138: the yellow Banksian rose which produces long and slender shoots in produsion is the most difficult to prune [at Tintinhull House]. Its flowers are borne on wood which is at least two years old and pruning is confined as far as possible to the complete removal of older shoots...
Page 214: [At Lytes Cary] a yellow Banksian rose flowers in spring and then needs pruning back immediately afterwards...
(1995)  Page(s) 128.  
 
[In the Shakespeare Garden at Charlecote Park...] Other shrubs which were known to Shakespeare, and mentioned in Gerard's Herball of 1597, include the cabbage rose or rose of Provence (Rosa x centifolia) and the damask rose (R. x damascena)...
(1995)  Page(s) 54.  
 
An early maze in masonry is recorded in the twelfth century at Woodstock, where Henry II chased the 'fair Rosamund'...
(1995)  Page(s) 41.  
 
The scented almost evergreen Himalayan rose, Rosa gigantea, with wide yellowish-white single flowers followed by red autumn fruits flourishes over a pergola flourishes over a pergola at Mount Stewart [see Gardens]
(1995)  Page(s) 133, 146.  
 
[At Sissinghurst Castle] in the white garden the central arbour of Rosa mulliganii dominates the planting scheme at the beginning of July, while white 'Iceberg' roses are set in frames of box to formalize the arrangements...
p. 146: Rosa mulliganii (formerly known as R. longicuspis)...[this is incorrect taxonomically but may be a statement about confusion in commerce of the two species. Ed.]
(1995)  Page(s) 268.  
 
The Garland one of Gertrude Jekyll's favorite white roses...
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