The White Roses

The white roses I have are all lovely and all different and worth a look.

White Cecile Brunner has a pretty lemon centre which fades as the flower opens. Perfumed and constant flowering with healthy foliage 

Souvenir de Philemon Cochet unfortunately sometimes gets brown petals in its flowers, but not this year. This year it is beautiful and the flowers are fairly large. My plant was grown from a cutting and has taken quite a few years to establish. Its a good five feet tall with typical tough healthy rugosa leaves.

Good old Iceberg, I wouldn't be without it. Responds well to a severe pruning and bounces back with flushes of lightly perfumed flowers, which are sometimes blush in the centre.

This rose came from a cemetery. I took a cutting which grew easily but I don't know its name. The bush smothers itself in lovely perfumed flowers just in the spring. These types of roses are best pruned in summer, so I give it a trim after it flowers ensuring more blooms next year.

The White Rose of York (Alba Semi Plena) is another once flowering rose. The single perfumed blooms and yellow stamens look lovely against the grey green foliage. It has just started to flower in my garden and will be superb in another week or so. This one I leave alone as it has lovely long hips to follow which last into winter. Just a tidy up of dead wood is all it needs.