Our Rose Garden This page is under construction, as is the rose garden! please forgive the links that are not yet working. As long as I can remember I have always wanted a rose garden and now that we have so much land to spare, I can realise my dream!   The area allocated for the garden leaves a little to be desired and we are working on adding organic material to help the soil retain water.   Thanks to our alpacas (see www.atherfield.com.au) and cows, we have a plentiful supply of poo to dig in.   So alas, at present I have my cherished rose collection in pots and I hope to plant them out during spring 2005, after the last frosts. 300+ roses - all different and all old, and all still in their pots... Tansy and baby Harriet do their share by contributing to our on-site supply of alpaca poo Jasmine is an enthusiastic helper when it comes to pruning time! The following gallery shows some of my rose collection which has some very old and historically significant roses which I have hunted down over a period of 2 years.   My latest triumph was finding a Park's Yellow Tea Scented China, which is one of the 4 foundation china roses.   The only rose pictured here which I do not have is Hume's Blush Tea Scented China - which rose is my current mission to find.   If you know of a nursery which stocks it, I would be most greatful to hear from you.   As you may appreciate, roses in pots do not give their best blooms, so I have compiled this page from other people's photos of their gardens.   As my own roses bloom, I will replace the photos with my own.   If you click on an image which interests you, it will take you to the webpage of the person who took the photo.   Please do not take any photos and use them without first contacting the owner via their web link - as you can see by their appearance on this page, most rose lovers are happy to share their images as long as they are given credit for their work. I've made the image file sizes as small as possible so the page should load faster - I hope.....   If you have an image to fill one of the blanks, I would be delighted to hear from you.   If there are any roses which are mis-named, I would also like to know.   The name will be correct, it will be the photo that is wrong.