When we started this blog last September we described our dreams and plans to create a beautiful new flower garden. Our intention was to move away from a cut garden focused purely on growing cut flowers for sale in regimented straight beds to a more aesthetically pleasing space, still a cutting garden but somewhere that you want to stop, sit and enjoy.
During the winter we spent many hours preparing the ground and setting out the new layout, planting the new formal hedging and building the new rose arches. In March we started to plant out all the new roses we had spent many happy hours choosing from the catalogues.
Despite all the challenges with the weather during the long cold, wet winter and now the heat and drought of mid-summer, the new roses are developing wonderfully. Behind the new short clipped hedge we have planted a selection of pink and white roses ranging from deep dusky pink through mid-pink to pure white. All have been chosen for their scent, repeat flowering and suitability for cutting.
All four varieties have been flowering for some weeks now and with regular dead heading are continuing to repeat flower. The foliage seems to be disease free so far.
Here are the four varieties we have planted in this area:
We have written previously about our plans for enhancing the garden in the evenings with white blooms that shine out in the dusk and with scent that hangs in the air ( Zaluzianskya – Twilight Scent ). These light coloured blooms have been introduced as part of these plans with the aim of illuminating the walk around the garden at dusk.
Honey Pot Flowers are wedding and celebration florists based in Warwickshire in the United Kingdom specialising in natural, locally grown seasonal flowers. We grow many of our own flowers allowing us to offer something very different and uniquely personal.
We are out in the garden ... 
This is looking lovely. I like your calming colour palette and that you have focused on four varieties.
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