As part of the Open Garden for Creswick we went to Shirley Minster beautiful rose garden. It is a rather romantic garden in very difficult conditions fighting rabbits, a hard clay soil and a very limited water supply. The Smoke bush is amazing but the heroines are the Roses.

Iris – Purple and Mauve

Iris – Peach and Pink

Rose and an Ant

Rose – Climbing

Cabbage Rose

Camellia

Trellis for the roses

Lush garden beds with roses, iris and wonderful color

Smoke Bush – Cotinus coggygria with roses

Smoke Bush – Cotinus coggygria

Drosanthemum – Ice Plant (White)

Giant Allium

King Protea

Clemantis

Oriental Poppy in bloom