Rosa 'Toby Tristram'
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15th July 2006
A warm apricot form of Rosa filipes, most often seen in its pure white 'Kiftsgate' form. Possibly less vigorous, but this one is still swallowing most of
the south side of my workshop.
8th August 2007
The rosaceous conquest on my workshop continues. She has spread herself in liquid voluptuousness across the roof like a fat woman in a Rubens painting.
It is not the strongest of buildings, and I can see the roof collapsing one windy night into a rosy pile of dereliction. As long as I'm not trapped
in its coils a la Sleeping Beauty, I don't really care.
20th July 2013
Magnificent for a week (rarely two) in July and well worth fifty-one weeks of cascading prickly peril
as I walk past it.
8th July 2017