On Sundays, I’m sharing a square cropped picture of a pink rose as part of Becky’s Square In September challenge. We are invited to dip in and out of this daily challenge as we please. She’s looking for a post where the main photograph is square and the subject is In The Pink.
Several people have asked if the roses I’ve been sharing this month are especially fragrant. Last week’s was not, so I promised a highly scented one for this week and I have kept my word. Rosa ‘Gertrude Jekyll’ has as strong and lovely an Old Rose fragrance as anyone could hope for. Scratch and sniff!
(It might work, if you have an active imagination).
Susan Rushton 
Beautiful Rose Flower. 🙂
I’m glad you liked it 🙂
Elegant and beautiful🌿
Thank you!
It works! Well, I had to scratch three or four times, and then it came back to me, I smelled these once in the big rose gardens above Portland, Oregon.
Worth a visit.
Vincent
It’s funny how fragrances can take you back. I visited the rose garden at Portland about ten years ago. I can’t remember seeing Gertie there though.
Yes, roses transport me, too! It may have been in Golden Gate Park San Francisco, Balboa Park San Diego, or Hyde Park London, though. So many lovely roses! 🌹
…so little time!
You most likely did see it in Portland. The roses weren’t at their peak when I was there.
I cannot scratch and sniff, but I will go out into the garden, when the rain stops, and have a sniff at our Gertrude rose. Someone once gave it to my wife, because her name is Gertrud. Thank you for the beautiful photo, Susan!
That would have been a very welcome gift. Do you grow it as a shrub or a climber?
My wife grows her Gertrud rose as a shrub.
Ah. This one is equally good as either, provided you’re not looking for your rose to climb too high.
I love roses and rose pictures. I am imagining the scent of a garden full of this variety.
Wow – that would be something! It possible to overpower the senses through imagination, I wonder?
Absolutely.
Oh, wow. One could fall into this and just lie there for an eon, being blissful. It took me a moment to respond because I had to pick myself up from the Scratch and Sniff. You caught me off-guard on that one. Not that I wasn’t tempted to try. Thanks for this amazement!
I dare hardly confess that to meet the brief of being square, I was forced to cut two buds off, but I suppose you can always imagine those too. They’re funny looking buds, rather like the ends of little trumpets.
I noticed pink parts on the sides that looked suspiciously bud-like, and I couldn’t help thinking that some day they would appear on another post. Now that I know they look rather like the ends of little trumpets, I’m almost sure they will make their own appearance!
Well…
It’s very wet here in Central Texas, so I am imagining that wonderful rose scent.
I hope it’s the kind of rain you’re glad to have, for the garden’s sake, rather than the kind you have to be concerned about.
It is the most heady rose scent
The quintessential rose scent, as the breeder says.
I quite agree, Rosa ‘Gertrude Jekyll’ has a lovely old rose fragrance. One of the few roses I have.
A good, classic choice if you love scented flowers.
I have this rose in my garden too. In total, I have 7 fragrant roses which, but I also have a lot of unperfumed roses, grown for their shape, colour and beauty. My favourite flower although I hate, hate, hate the thorns.
I’m part way through writing a post about why fragrance isn’t the be-all and end-all for roses. I agree with you that the thorns can be pesky too!