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Sunil Patel
I'm Sunil Patel, this is me. I created the Garden at 13 Broom Acres and I open it to visitors. I also bake and write blog posts giving a "behind the scenes" look into what it's like to maintain such a garden.
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I love it. You captured all the folds and subtleties: the light caught on the petal-tips and the densely folded yet uncrushed petals towards the center and even the delicate veins etched into the outer petals. I can smell it. Thank you for a lovely Wednesday.
Hi Emily, thanks, I wish you could smell it, the fragrance is diving and so strong too. I only regret not discovering this amazing rose earlier. These roses just seem to light themselves up – no special equipment or conditions needed for a perfect picture.
Great close up shot.
Hello Jason, thanks, I think it might become part of a “best of collection”, I really do like it.
Lovely!
Thank you, Elisabet
So lovely bright and I imagine quite fragrant 🙂
Hi Sukhmandir, thank you, it is a highly fragrant rose, one of the strongest and loveliest fragrances from any rose that I have come across.
Is that Gertrude Jeykll by any chance? Whichever it is, it’s glorious.
Spot on, Mrs Mac! It’s a Gertrude Jekyll and I’m so glad I have it. It’s in its second year now (from bare root) and it’s starting to reach over my head. I expect it to reach the top of the arch next year, along with it’s opposite counter part on the other side of the arch (Graham Thomas).
Beautiful! Bravo!! I’m a bit jealous of how disease free those leaves are. I’m still waging war on black spot over here.
Hi Tammy, don’t be jealous, all my roses are now being covered in the black spot. I’m not too worried though since they’ve given a spectacular show. Unless you’re spending a fortune of fungicides and spraying constantly, rose-leaf black-spot *is* going to appear so it doesn’t bother me. Once the garden show is over in the autumn/winter, I’ll clear the infected leaves away and then next spring, I’ll keep up with a few home remedies against black spot on newly emerging leaves but then when it get’s too much work, I’ll let it all go again.