I’m continuing my series of galleries of English roses with Rosa ‘Lady Emma Hamilton’. In the past, I’ve found this rose quite tricky to capture, but this year, I’ve been more fortunate.
It consistently reaches full flowering a tad later than the others – just by a week or so – nothing you’d really notice unless you observe roses quite closely at flowering time.
All the pictures above were taken on the same day at David Austin’s Rose Garden in Albrighton, early in July. Visitors are greeted by two massive beds of ‘Lady Emma Hamilton’ growing in front of the tea rooms, so I had plenty of material to choose from. Below, I’m adding in a couple of pictures taken more recently.
I’ve seen this rose flowering in Japan and America too and it does vary – hotter climates tend to make the flowers appear more open. The young foliage is dark bronze wherever it is grown.
Though I’ve included pictures of flower clusters to give a fuller impression of this shrub rose, many are macros, inspired by the weekly photo challenge: close up.
Other galleries in the series include:
Rosa ‘Darcey Bussell’
Rosa ‘A Shropshire Lad’
Gallery of English roses
Gallery of orange English roses
Susan Rushton 
Wonderful photos Susan, I love how you’ve captured the rose in each stage of its blooming from tight buds to falling petal stage, just lovely, and I feel like you’ve introduced me to one of your close friends!
That’s a lovely comment & very perceptive – I do always seek her out!
A rose by any other name….
She’s a beauty. Like the dawn sky. I love the yellows and apricots suffused with pink.
Me too – though I’m not naturally an early riser so I tend to think of sunset!
The opposite of me. I am a morning person through and through!
Oh so beautiful.
I just love your roses.
Thanks Maria – I do sometimes wonder if I’m tempted to share too many of them, so that’s nice to hear.
Dreamlike, what a beauty!
I can see why they grow it in quantity in front of the tearooms. Fantastic colours.
I do seem to be drawn to the apricots. I love the colours on your little flower picture by the way!
Incredible aren’t they?!
It is an unusual shade for a rose – bold, bright and luminous.
Swoon …
Beautiful!
What a beauty. TO be honest, orange roses have never been among my favorites, generally I prefer paler shades. But this one is going to be a big exception 🙂 Thanks a lot for splendid photography.
This is so beautiful. The pastel colour made me feel nostalgic somehow.