In a Vase on Monday. ‘Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May’.

possibly I should have call this post’Gather Ye Canary Birds While Ye May’because I have used the lovely little Canary Bird Rose , always the first to flower in my garden .

It makes a lovely shrub covered in buttery- yellowish single flowers . Mine has Malus pumila blossom behind it which make a perfect May picture in my brain .

Rosa xanthina‘Canary Bird ’

Rosa xanthina‘Canary Bird’

I have added someTellima grandifloraand for fragrance I have used Honeysuckle and the sweetly scented littleNarcissus‘Sun Disc ’ which play off the stand up perfectly . Both the rose and the piffling jugful seemed to demand the statute title for this arrangement . And on the other side - I love the way that Canary Bird matches the colour of this vase so well . My other early flowering rose , the climbingRosa banksiae‘Lutea ’ is not quite out yet . I saw it in Tuscany late looking superb . I mean it needs plenty of sunlight to bloom really well . It arise rampantly though ; my 7 year old cutting has reach the top of a large orchard apple tree tree diagram .

I have bought two new early flowering roses this year . One is like to Canary Bird but has much deeper jaundiced flowers . I saw it several years ago in a friend ’s garden and I have covet it ever since . It is calledRosa‘Helen Knight ’ . It is a seedling of the wildRosa ecae .

Rosa‘Helen Knight ’

Rosa xanthina‘Canary Bird’

R.‘Helen Knight ’

The other early- flowering get up is one I find in a garden last year , when I was in Herefordshire for the Gardens in the Wild Festival . It is a single rosebush , ( I screw single rose ) and it is calledRosa odorata‘Bengal Beauty ’ . It start out blossom in May and rifle on and on . The bloom in the photo is just going over but there are plenty of bud to fare . LikeRosa mutabilisthis rose has someChinensisin its breeding and it has a similar habit .

Rosa odorata‘Bengal Beauty ’

Rosa xanthina ‘Canary Bird’

Rosa xanthina‘Canary Bird’

So here we have my first roses . There are plenitude of rosebud to get next calendar month and so I shall be out there gathering rosebud again before long . But unlike my cheery figures on the vase , I shall credibly be wearing wearing apparel . After all roses are a scrap prickly .

To the Virgins to Make Much of Time . Robert Herrick . 1591 - 1674.Gather ye Rosebuds while ye may , previous time is still aflying : And this same flower which smiles todayTomorrow will be buy the farm .

Thanks to my acquaintance Cathy atRamblinginthegardenfor hosting this meme and getting us all to put flowers in a vase on a Monday .

54 Responses toIn a Vase on Monday. ‘Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May’.

Fabulous rise and perfect color for that vase … how adorable to have roses up with daffs … .I will have to wait for a while longer as the rosiness are just produce now . Been too inhuman .

‘ Canary Bird ’ is well - named ! Your vase brims with good cheer . I ’ve always look up to the yellow Lady Banks rose , which my mother - in - law maturate successfully . I did n’t have the ripe place for it in my old fishy garden but I probably have enough sun to grow it here , although its weewee needs might be a job . It ’s always something …

Such lovely rose wine – and that arrangement is delightful – it wait tremendous in that jug . I have just fallen for Canary Bird … I ’ve just stimulate to work out where I might put one …

I find it curious that your meeting house is blooming , while mine does not even have buds !

In a Vase on Monday. ‘Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May’.