LIFESTYLE
Time will Tell
If today’s world is increasingly more oriented to collecting everyone’s ideas and requests, time and roses also work along the same lines. Roses are capable of interpreting an era, turning into the projection of dreams and trends of a society. Many different olfactory vocations to expand the pallet of sensations, without qualifying any with any precision.
Even if the first to play the antique rose card together with reblossoming and perfume was the Englishman David Austin (his newest varieties are presented every year), the fame of the English species is a bit blurry at present: in part this is because they are more suited to climates on the other side of the Channel, humid and never boiling hot in summer, in part because to give one’s best and continue giving flowers these plants have to grow a lot, taking up room in gardens which, although growing in number, are also getting smaller. For this reason, and because they are maintenance-free, the so-called landscape roses are back in fashion. They are great in the town to cover French type roundabouts but also in the country to cover escarpments and, because they flower abundantly in May through to the winter, they are ideal for anyone who wants a garden bursting with flowers but who doesn’t really want to get their hands dirty gardening.
The French, Germans and Danish are working in this direction to find small and abundantly flowering plants on soft ground covering branches. And this means that opposing parties are already taking shape: those who can’t miss the date with the season’s novelties and go mad just to be the first to try them and those, on the other hand, having found their compact roses, have nothing more to do until autumn. These specimens, that some say even clean themselves, are called Cubana (Kordes, 2001), Sweet Haze (Tantau, 2003), Amber Cover (Poulsen, 2001), Les Quatre Saisons (Meilland, 2003).
Many of them give satisfaction even to those who, instead of a garden and a rose garden, have nothing else but a pot and a balcony. Once you have tried them you could even fall in love with them. With the certainty that «Time will tell».
Even if the first to play the antique rose card together with reblossoming and perfume was the Englishman David Austin (his newest varieties are presented every year), the fame of the English species is a bit blurry at present: in part this is because they are more suited to climates on the other side of the Channel, humid and never boiling hot in summer, in part because to give one’s best and continue giving flowers these plants have to grow a lot, taking up room in gardens which, although growing in number, are also getting smaller. For this reason, and because they are maintenance-free, the so-called landscape roses are back in fashion. They are great in the town to cover French type roundabouts but also in the country to cover escarpments and, because they flower abundantly in May through to the winter, they are ideal for anyone who wants a garden bursting with flowers but who doesn’t really want to get their hands dirty gardening.
The French, Germans and Danish are working in this direction to find small and abundantly flowering plants on soft ground covering branches. And this means that opposing parties are already taking shape: those who can’t miss the date with the season’s novelties and go mad just to be the first to try them and those, on the other hand, having found their compact roses, have nothing more to do until autumn. These specimens, that some say even clean themselves, are called Cubana (Kordes, 2001), Sweet Haze (Tantau, 2003), Amber Cover (Poulsen, 2001), Les Quatre Saisons (Meilland, 2003).
Many of them give satisfaction even to those who, instead of a garden and a rose garden, have nothing else but a pot and a balcony. Once you have tried them you could even fall in love with them. With the certainty that «Time will tell».
Mimma Pallavicini
