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Rose, peony and clematis (public) Garden
Listing last updated on Sat Nov 2024
[From A Book of Gardening: Ideas, Methods, Design, by Penelope Hobhouse, p. 111: Planting includes] the pink 'Else Poulsen' and the scarlet 'Kirsten Poulsen', original Floribundas dating from 1924... [p. 214:] at the bottom of the dry moat and well sheltered from cold winds, plants are grown against the east wall of the early-seventeenth-century house... The tender 'Cooper's Burma' rose, a cultivar of the Cherokee rose ( Rosa laevigata) with white single flowers thrives here, and its success perhaps reflects the dry climate with plenty of hot sun in summer, which ripens the wood...
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