Shades of a Sunset
Spring has finally come to Melbourne, and everywhere, gardens are bursting forth with beautiful coloured blooms in a profusion of colours after winter. It was a cold and overcast morning, but that broke up and the afternoon I took this photo, it was glorious sunshine and blue skies and I enjoyed a stroll in the warm sunshine. Along my stroll, I stopped to photograph the rose garden of a house that I have dubbed "Rose Cottage" because of their wonderful profusion of roses planted throughout their front garden. This beautiful "Alpine Sunset" bloom was standing apart from many other blooms, and was crying out to be captured within my camera's lens.
"Alpine Sunset" is an apricot blend hybrid tea rose developed by Roger Pawsey of Cants of Colchester, in Essex, in 1973. The cultivar was introduced into Great Britain in 1974. The colours of this rose are stunning as it goes from orange to pink and golden yellow - just like a painted sunset. It has extremely large buds which is quite rare for a variety that stays reasonably short. It is sweetly scented. Roger Pawsey developed the new rose variety, "Alpine Sunset" from hybrid tea roses, "Dr. A.J. Verhage" and Irish Gold (also known as "Grandpa Dickson"). "Alpine Sunset" was used to develop two child plants: '"Pretty Lady" in 1997 and '"ardley Baroque" somewhere shortly before 1997.
Shades of a Sunset
Spring has finally come to Melbourne, and everywhere, gardens are bursting forth with beautiful coloured blooms in a profusion of colours after winter. It was a cold and overcast morning, but that broke up and the afternoon I took this photo, it was glorious sunshine and blue skies and I enjoyed a stroll in the warm sunshine. Along my stroll, I stopped to photograph the rose garden of a house that I have dubbed "Rose Cottage" because of their wonderful profusion of roses planted throughout their front garden. This beautiful "Alpine Sunset" bloom was standing apart from many other blooms, and was crying out to be captured within my camera's lens.
"Alpine Sunset" is an apricot blend hybrid tea rose developed by Roger Pawsey of Cants of Colchester, in Essex, in 1973. The cultivar was introduced into Great Britain in 1974. The colours of this rose are stunning as it goes from orange to pink and golden yellow - just like a painted sunset. It has extremely large buds which is quite rare for a variety that stays reasonably short. It is sweetly scented. Roger Pawsey developed the new rose variety, "Alpine Sunset" from hybrid tea roses, "Dr. A.J. Verhage" and Irish Gold (also known as "Grandpa Dickson"). "Alpine Sunset" was used to develop two child plants: '"Pretty Lady" in 1997 and '"ardley Baroque" somewhere shortly before 1997.