Mme Isaac Pereire
It’s AUTUMN. It’s been autumn for at least a fortnight but I keep trying to IGNORE it. (Those are not yellow, mown fields I’m walking over with the hellhounds. They’re . . . they’re . . . uh, give me a minute.) But it is now black dark when I come out of bell ringing at 9 pm so I can Ignore the Turn of the Season No Longer.
Meanwhile all my second-flush roses are doing their second-flush thing and I realise to my horror that of what are probably the top three cannot-live-without roses in my life, which are Mme Gregoire Staechlin, Mme Isaac Pereire, and Koenigin von Danemarck*, I’ve only given you photos of Mme Gregoire. Permit me to rectify this damning oversight. And because you read everything in this blog with close attention, you will remember that Graham Thomas specially noted that Mme Isaac’s autumn flush is particularly fine.
* Yes, to be on my unlivewithoutable list, you have to have an unspellable name. And if you look these three up, you will still find them spelled variously. This is the way, or these are the ways, that Graham Thomas spells them.
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Oh very nice! One can almost smell them at this range. I like the few artfully arranged raindrops on this one as well.
Thank you, lovely pictures.
I think I’m looking forward to autumn. I know eeeeeveryone else hates it, but dark early means it isn’t sweaty hot here (I don’t have central AC, just a couple window units). I’m such a horrible Texan. Obviously I am fully acclimated to VA now. I hope it snows.
Plus, I love the leaves changing color. Like here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/69585952@N00/1608370146/in/set-72157594507755653/
*bounce*
Mme Isaac Pereire is gorgeous. She looks like especially brilliant tissue paper folded up. It reminds me of the tissue paper flowers we used to make in elementary school, celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
I look forward to autumn too. It gives me a kind of low key restlessness that is good for morale and inspiration and *getting stuff done.* And I LOVE the colour changes, although I miss my sugar maples. It’s all golds and russets here–dazzling is reserved for the roses. :)
Mme Isaac isn’t as tissue-papery as some. You really don’t want the very tissue-papery ones–they’re the worst for balling in the rain and refusing to open generally if the weather isn’t PERFECT.
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You really don’t want the very tissue-papery ones–they’re the worst for balling in the rain and refusing to open generally if the weather isn’t PERFECT.
Oh, that makes sense. I hadn’t thought of that. Mostly the roses I’ve seen have pretty thick petals. (I almost said pedals. Roses are cars!) I don’t think I’ve ever *seen* a tissue paper rose in person.
And now I’m getting a little antsy to reread ROSE DAUGHTER. That book had me wandering around wishing for roses for *days*.
Oh good. That’s the plan. :)
I can see how you love her, I can read how you love her. However I wish I could smell her. Of all the various things you talk about, and recently there has been an emphasis on horses, dogs and diarrhoea, the baking and the flowers tickle my senses most. The baking is fearful for my thighs, but the flowers would probably have me sneezing. It depends. I hope she isn’t a sneeze-inducing smell. *mournfully* She LOOKS sneeze inducing. Roses are mostly OK if they have the old-fashioned heavy scents.
It’s a heavy fruity smell. Should be okay!
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I just can’t decide which is my favourite photo – this or Mme Isaac IV – how lovely to have these in person 4 dimensionally – I think scent has to be an extra dimension with such resplendent flowers – do you keep looking out of your window to enjoy them while they are flowering? Such irresistible blooms.
Of course! :)
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Ooooh, beautiful!!
Your child is gorgeous! And so well behaved! You must be so proud! : )
I have a rose that is exactly the same color and with a heavenly fragrance and it blooms heavily year round. But it’s a tea rose. You wouldn’t like it. But I love mine dearly, partly because I can ignore it and it just keeps on truckin’. Which is why I leave it alone even though it’s planted in the most inconvenient place in my yard and my father swears heavily every time he has to mow around it. But then again my father would like to pave my entire yard and turn it into a parking lot or, as you Brits say, car park? (did I get that right? I didn’t know what that was for the longest time although it all makes sense now) I love little colloquialisms like that. And bonk, as someone mentioned. And snog, as someone else mentioned. So fun. Who needs family friendly media anyway??? But I digress. Badly. I think I should stop blathering and go to bed now. Sigh. Bur not till after I check out the Jackson & Perkins Rose catalog.
TTFN! (ooo, another cool colloquialism!)
I’m not a big fan of hybrid teas, but I like anything that just keeps flowering.
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She is beautiful and I love how she seems to just radiate joy!
Thank you for sharing her, she is a true delight! I just wish I could see and smell her in person!
The fields are *giled*. You’re walking through a medieval manuscript…
Er, that’s gilded. *sigh*
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did you take that photo yourself? ooh, pretty.
Absolutely. I think I’ve taken every photo I’m not myself in, and I’m about to buy a *tripod* so I can tackle myself too.
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