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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 2d

Then there is little Fashion, pretty as can be in the pointed shrimp-pink bud and just as pretty when the bud opens into the never vulgar, slightly scented flower. Fashion is a darling, a floribunda for anybody with the appreciation of shape, colour and subtlety in a rose.

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 2d

And went on producing its great flowers mixing themselves in amongst the grey-green leaves of the shrubby Californian poppy Romneya coulteri, a perfect combination of pink and grey. August Seebauer is not so well known as it should be. #gardening sissinghurstcastle.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/las…

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 2d

For a good yellow, plant Goldilocks, and if you want a huge pink, plant August Seebauer, a surprise to me when it first exploded in June. . . #gardening
sissinghurstcastle.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/t...

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 2d

The floribundas have all the virtues of the old ployanthas, with many virtues added. For a rich dark red, plant Frensham and Dusky Maiden and Donald Prior and Alain. #gardening
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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 2d

No new villa garden was without them. The Poulsens had their virtues, their undeniable virtues. They flowered continuously and they made a show. What a show they made! Bright pink, bright scarlet, they were as inescapable as they were ubiquitous. #gardening

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 2d

We used to know them or their originators as the polyantha roses. #gardening
historicroses.org/polyanthas/
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/roses...

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 2d

Oct ‘55 I should like, with or without permission, to write two successive articles about the type of rose now called floribunda. It is too large a subject to cram into one article, for there can be no doubt that the floribundas are going to prove an immense value. #gardening

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 3d

The Gean, or Prunus avium, is not to be confused with the Bird Cherry, Prunus padus. There are also cultivated forms of the Bird Cherry. I can speak only of P. padus Watereri, which possesses what my nose tells me is a peculiarly honeyed scent. #gardening
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-wo

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 3d

But we could still afford modestly to set our own wild cherry in a chosen place at the eastern or the western corner of the garden: I say eastern or western because the reddening leaves would then catch either the morning or the evening light, sunrise or sunset. #gardening

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 3d

Its autumn colouring is no less sensational but somehow one does not notice it so readily because the October leafage of the forest trees—oak, beech and chestnut—still hangs so heavily green around it that it can be observed only close up or at a vista-cut of a distance. #gardening

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 3d

There is no need to emphasize the loveliness of the wild cherry in the spring, its great puffs of white appearing like the smoke of a train inexplicably stationary in the middle of bare woods. #gardening
speciesofuk.blogspot.com/2014/08/week-5…
woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-an��

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 3d

Among our native trees, the wild cherry or Gean is one of the first to turn. (I should perhaps qualify the word ‘native’ by saying that it may possibly have been introduced by the Romans). #gardening
davisla.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/pla…

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 3d

5 Oct ‘52 The leaves are turning. Their beauty, in some years, is evanescent. But If they hang only for a week it is supremely worthwhile to plant those trees or shrubs which, in their sudden blaze, will so startlingly recall the first glories of summer.
nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/sis…

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 23d

Martin Cahuzac, a dark red, has leaves which colour well in autumn. #gardening
www.independent.co.uk/property/gar...
www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/44277...

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 23d

Kelway's Glorious is a fine white; Duchesse de Nemours is white with a slightly yellowish tinge and smaller flowers. #gardening

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 23d

Apart from this, P. Laura Dessert is probably the best yellow; Sarah Bernhardt has enormous pale pink flowers, double; #gardening
www.claireaustin-hardyplants.co.uk/products/peo...

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 23d

As a yellow I would recommend P. mlokosewitschii, did it not cost 30s a plant. I grew it from a sixpenny packet of seed myself, but you have to be very patient to do that. #gardening
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.plantdelights.com/products/pae...

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 23d

There are now many varieties, either single or double, ranging from pure white through white-and-yellow to shell-pink, deep-pink, and the sunset colour you find in P. peregrina. This really flames. #gardening
www.claireaustin-hardyplants.co.uk/t/plants/peo...

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 23d

The herbaceous peony is the one we are accustomed to see in some not very attractive shades of red and pink in cottage gardens. Do not condemn it on that account. #gardening
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 23d

And the tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa). You would have to pay anything from 10s. to 30s. Still, it is worth the investment especially as it will start to flower young and will flower more and more copiously as it advances in age. Never cut it down.
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/peony...

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 23d

There are, roughly speaking, two different kinds of peony: the herbaceous, in which we may include the species; #gardening
americanpeonysociety.org/learn/herbac...

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 24d

And by this I mean that you should dig the hole 18” deep; put in some rotted manure or compost at the bottom. Fill it in with ordinary soil and plant shallow. Don’t bury the crown more than a couple of inches underground. This is important. #gardening www.sarahraven.com/articles/how...

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 24d

Of course, if you want to do them well, peonies will respond as any plant to good treatment. If you have a little bonemeal to spare, fork it in during the autumn. But it is not really necessary. The only thing which is really necessary is careful planting in the first instance.

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 24d

Peonies will flourish in sun or semi-shade; they will tolerate almost any kind of soil, lime-free or otherwise; they will even put up with clay; they never need dividing or transplanting; in fact, they hate it; #gardening
www.penshurstplace.com/explore/see/...

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 24d

There are few more repaying plants. Rabbits dislike them; their flowering season extends through May and June; peonies last for a week or more as picked flowers for the house; #gardening
www.countrylife.co.uk/gardens/pens...

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