At long last we have a good display of Queen Elizabeth roses in our garden. All the other roses have had lots of flowers for a while, but the Queen Elizabeths have been rather slower to flower.
These roses were a favourite of my dad, and he had quite a few in his garden. Some of these in our garden were grown from cuttings from his roses.
This was the first successful grandiflora rose, a cross with clusters of flowers like a floribunda and large blooms like a hybrid tea. It was launched in 1954 by the rose breeder Lammerts, to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, and it was a brilliant success. For some of us it is still very popular today.
Thank you all for your lovely comments and favs, they are very much appreciated.
It is lovely to see the Queen Elizabeth roses now producing lots of flowers. I was getting a little concerned that we had seen very few flowers from them until the last few days.
Thank you all for your lovely comments and favs, they are very much appreciated.
It is lovely to see the Queen Elizabeth roses now producing lots of flowers. I was getting a little concerned that we had seen very few flowers from them until the last few days.
Ian
Thank you both. It is nice to see these roses flowering at last!
Ian