“There is something quite special about white roses… they are all purity and light.” – David Austin
I’m sharing pictures of white shrub roses and rambling roses in eager anticipation of the peak flowering season for roses which is a couple of weeks or so away in my part of the world. As my sweetheart would say, bring it on! Meanwhile, I’ll let the roses do their own talking.
Jude suggested I might share some white roses for her current challenge – I’m happy to oblige.
Susan Rushton 
Just lovely 🥰
Wonderful. Makes me want to go get some now!!!❤️
I dare say I should say sorry for tempting you, but I won’t. 🙂
Thank you!
A fine set. I find them so difficult to photograph
Roses have a way of bobbing on their stems in the lightest breeze.
Superb! I am sticking my nose into the screen now. Love the open ones, Rosa ‘Jacqueline du Pré’ in particular and that arbor. I do have some white roses of my own (unknown) which have the faintest pink tinge and a delicate lemony smell. Just coming into flower.
Those sound lovely. I nearly included a pretty, very pale pink one. Some of these are decidedly creamy, even yellowish when they are young, and there are some colours of roses that fade almost to white in bright sun.
It’s interesting how some roses change colour throughout their brief life.
You’d imagine it might help insects target the freshest flowers – though the mechanism is not intuitive to humans, it might be to bees. Someone will surely have researched that.
truly beautiful
I’m glad you like them.
Smelling salts, please! I thought the green yesterday was cooling — these are like looking at snow! Or porcelain. Or wedding cake frosting. Those ‘Kew Gardens’ buds are the most un-bud-like buds I’ve ever seen, and I covet them. I also covet the roses that drip — those buds seem to be pink and yellow — the whole of it looks sort of like seashells. Do the ‘Desdemona’ buds always open with the dark edge? There’s tragedy in that, yes?
There is a hint of a bruise in the partly open buds, for those alert to the tragedy bundled in with in the name. R. ‘Kew Gardens’ has tiny green buds. By the time they are peachy, the sepals are too inconsequential to provide much restraint.
Bring it on is right! Be still, my trembling heart.
Yes, be still! Our hearts are not means to beat as fast as birds’.
Tee-hee!
Pretty roses.
It’s funny to think of roses opening in a slow roll over all the rose-growing countries in the world. NASA could perhaps make a space view of it.
So fresh and pretty! 😍🌼
Thanks, Tiffany.
There is something very beautiful about white roses – especially the simple ones – so elegant.
White roses seem witnesses to the power of sunshine.
What a lovely series. ‘Tranquility’ is my favourite.
I do love roses trailing over an arbour too. 🙂
Trailing is one of their best habits; scratching arms, one of their worst.
I do believe the British have the best roses! Gorgeous set, Susan.
Thanks, Eliza. You can’t always guarantee my pictures were all taken in Britain, but in this case they were, apart from R. ‘Nastarana’.
Beautiful roses beautifully captured.
Thanks, Anne.