Sharifa … one of my favourite roses
October means it’s rose time. I don’t have many rose varieties in my garden but those that I do have are grown for specific reasons .. except the icebergs .. which I love as they are easy to care for and always full of blooms throughout the summer months. I have several good ol’ whites and pink ‘simplicity’s, and one of each ‘burgundy’ and ‘brilliant’. One of my favourites grown-for-specific-reasons is Sharifa Asma, a David Austin English Rose
Many years ago I was wondering through the roses section of Lifestyle Garden Centre sniffing every single rose!!! I was looking for something that had a perfume!! So many roses don’t have a perfume anymore, as they did when I was a little girl. Every rose seemed to have a scent, be it strong or faint. While I had gone through the entire section and ultimately getting rather confused and quite ‘heady’, a lovely man with short beard and cap on head asked me if he could assist. We discussed various roses and then he showed me his favourite .. a beautiful short but full bloomed frilly pale pink rose with the most gorgeous perfume. Perfect!! It was the one that caught my ‘nose’ more than any other
Little did I know then, that he was Mr Ludwig …. of Ludwig Roses. Only few years later I realised who this lovely-man-with-short-beard-and-cap-on-head was. I saw his photograph and article on Ludwig Roses in a gardening magazine
It’s also the rose I call ‘Daddy’s rose’ as .. I have mentioned this before .. I was in the middle of planting it when my sister in law phoned telling me that my Dad had passed away
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2 Replies to “Sharifa … one of my favourite roses”
Mr Ludwig’s daddy’s rose is beautiful! Such a lovely colour
what a beauty