Rose photo courtesy of grzeng

Wollongong Botanic Garden (2023-11-13)

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Spring flush (2023-11-04). To be honest in my Sydney climate, this only lasted about a week and it’s a dreadful leafless thornshrub for the rest of the time which is truly heartbreaking because the fragrance is to die for! Currently (2024-04-20), it’s started putting on some growth for the autumn flush, and just generally seems to like cooler moister weather more.

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At Vaucluse House (2023-10-02). This is probably as nice as it’d look in Sydney. The pleasure garden is in a sort of gully so plenty of moisture; from memory the plant at Rumsey is a lot more gawky.

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Flowers in spring 2023. Repeat’s gotten better now it’s been established a few years but normally it’s a bit more leafless. Have found with hybrid perpetuals in Sydney, their growth isn’t usually very strong so it’s best just to just leave them unpruned and it’ll form an acceptable (albeit often leafless) shrublet and actually repeat a bit. (Plant sent to me from Margaret Furness around 2018; was a bit neglected in 30cm pot for a few years but it’s slowly forming a plant now)

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