I don’t need much of an excuse to post pictures of roses, but you’d be hard pressed to persuade me that they are not the most graceful flowers in the world. Hanging bounteously from a pergola at Kew Gardens, face downwards, as if demanding that visitors admire them, they created welcome shade on a sunny day.
My second choice, named for Kew Gardens is an unusual English Rose. The young flowers are distinctly yellow, but they quickly pale to snow white. This shot has a sweeping garland effect, so you’d be excused for thinking the rose is a climber or a rambler. It is actually a shrub rose, producing a succession of single flowers held in graceful sprays. The buds are beautifully scrolled with feathery sepals.
I don’t know the name of the shell pink rose above. It looks ethereal but is tough enough to grow wild in full sun without food and withstand lengthy periods of drought. It’s another cemetery rose (if you love antique roses and missed my recent post about the roses of Greenwood Cemetery, you can find it here).
Nature lover and rosarian Greg Grant gave me this posy of sweetheart roses (Rosa ‘Cécile Brünner’) as a welcome gift when we stopped by to see him. This pretty little rose is famous for its tiny buds.
I could have shared so many pictures for this theme so, to mark my restraint, let’s go wild with my final shot for today which shows an excess of roses, assuming you can have such a thing. This is my version of a famous shot through the archway that leads from the Renaissance Garden to the Lion Garden at David Austin Roses’ head offices in Albrighton, England. The graceful way the white rambling rose (Rosa ‘Adélaïde d’Orléans’) overhangs the brick entryway is a temptation few people with a camera in their hands could refuse.
Shared for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Graceful. I’ve chosen shots with plenty of buds to please insightful reader and rosebud lover Oddment.
Susan Rushton 
Gorgeous, lush, love roses ❤
Thank you – it’s nice to be able to welcome another rose lover.
Roses at this time of year! Lovely!!
Shared at this time of year, but definitely not taken!
So well photographed
I always seem to have a few more rose pictures than I get round to sharing, and they almost all seem to have grace to me, but I disciplined myself not to go wild.
Ah….’graceful…’ yes…perfect for the WordPress photo challenge!
Thank you!
Beautiful places and pictures.
I’m glad you liked them.
Wow! Beautiful roses and you captured them perfectly.
They are such a wonderful subject to take. I often think to myself “surely you have enough rose pictures already?” but I can never resist another chance to try again.
I think you are right .. they are so very graceful and elegant. Those that are perfumed are heavenly. My dad used to grow the most beautiful roses. Lovely images ..
My dad loved roses too.
Gorgeous rose photos! They indeed are so graceful! I wish I could grow them but they don’t do well in my yard. It’s wonderful that I can admire and enjoy them in your photos though. Wish I could smell them too!
Wow! So beautiful! I’ve finally got mine climbing nicely. My ONE rose bush 🙂 These are amazing!
A climber can create so much impact when it’s in full flower. Long may you enjoy yours!
Thanks!
Your photography is gorgeous. 🙂