The French garden

On the last day of August let's travel back in time to the beginning of July

and enjoy some of the roses blooming then in the French garden of the rosegarden in Kortrijk.

 

Op deze laatste dag van augustus neem ik jullie graag voor een laatste keer mee

naar de rozentuin in Kortrijk begin juli, meer bepaald naar de Franse tuin.

 

 

O my, what a sunny and warm day it was. It seems so long ago, little did I know this was all the sunshine and heat for summer we would get this year. So glad I enjoyed it in a rosegarden ;) even if it makes the pictures not as pretty as they would be on a less sunny day.

 

Wat een mooie, zonnige dag was het. Het lijkt zo lang geleden, wist ik toen veel dat dat zowat alle zonneschijn en hitte voor deze zomer zouden zijn. Heel blij dat ik ervan genoten heb in een rozentuin ;) ook al maakte de felle zon de foto's er niet bepaald mooier op.

 

 

Some of the parterres with roses in part of the French garden.

 

Enkele van de parterres met rozen in een deel van de Franse tuin.

 

 

Isn't this rose 'Amber Queen' just a little sun in the garden?

 

Is deze roos 'Amber Queen' geen zonnetje in de tuin?

 

 

 

'Guy Savoy', one of the 'chefs' roses created by Delbard named after famous chefs.

 

'Guy Savoy', één van de 'chefs' rozen gecreëerd door Delbard, genoemd naar

bekende chefs. 

 

 

 

'Sweet pretty'

and what a beauty it is. Simple 5-petaled flowers but the gracious stamens

and wonderful colour make it one of my favourites.

 

'Sweet pretty'

en mooi is ze deze roos. Enkelvoudig maar de sierlijke

meeldraden en de prachtige kleur maken het één van mijn favorieten.

 

 

 

'Rivierenhof'

 

 

 

'Sommermorgen'

Such a beauty. Love the tender colour

and the curved flower leaves.

 

'Sommermorgen'

Wat een schoonheid. Mooie lichtroze kleur

en prachtig met die ingesneden bloembladeren.

 

 

'Parole'

 

 

 

'Valencia'

A fantastic colour and somewhat curly petals

make this rose a real beauty,

 

'Valencia'

Een fantastische kleur en ietwat krullerige bloemblaadjes

maken deze roos tot een echte beauty,

 

 

'Warm wishes'

I often wonder how and when a name for a rose is chosen....

maybe on a cold winter day? Or even a cold summer day?

 

'Warm wishes'

Ik vraag me af hoe en wanneer een naam voor een roos gekozen wordt....

Op een koude winterdag misschien? Of zelfs een koude zomerdag?

 

 

'Pullman Orient Express'

Yes, I do wonder where inspiration for names of roses comes from....

 

'Pullman Orient Express'

Ja, ik vraag me echt af waar de inspiratie voor rozennamen vandaan komt....

 

 

This rose is named after the famous French actor 'Louis de Funès'.

 

Deze roos is dan weer genoemd naar de bekende Franse komiek 'Louis de Funès'

 

 

'La perla' a pearl of a rose

 

'La perla' een pareltje deze roos

 

 

'Golden medaillon'

 

  

 This finishes this extended summer walk in the rosegarden in Kortrijk.

To experience the whole walk, you can start here, continue there,

then go here and finally end up here again.

 

En zover deze uitgebreide zomer wandeling in de rozentuin in Kortrijk.

Om van heel de wandeling te genieten kan je hier starten, daar verder wandelen,

daarna hiernaartoe gaan om uiteindelijk weer hier te eindigen.

 

 

 

 Marian

 

 

The English garden

It's been a weird summer, it's been a very busy summer, it's been a crazy summer sofar, no relaxing, no vacation, no reloading the batteries, almost no blogging or time spent behind the computer. I didn't even find the time until now to show you more of the rosegarden I visited in Kortrijk at the beginning of July. So, now that I did find the time, I would love to go back to that week of sun and summer we got in July and share more of the roses that were blooming in the rosegarden in Kortrijk back then.

 

In previous posts I showed roses from the experimental garden and from the historic garden. I still want to show you roses from the English and from the French garden, so called because of their layout. The English garden has roses combined with other perennials around a large lawn, in the French garden roses are planted into parterres with geometrical shapes edged by trimmed boxwood and gravel paths in between the parterres. I had completely forgotten by now how many roses the garden has and how one is even prettier than the other making it even harder to make a selection of the roses I took pictures of to show here. So I decided to show you a selection of the roses in and around the English garden in this post and a selection of the roses from the French garden in the next post. Enjoy!

 

Rose 'Plaisanterie'

 

Not a rose but I had to take a picture

of this o so special Clematis I don't know the name of.

If you do, please let me know!

 

 

Rose 'Charmant'

 

Rose 'Dinky'

 

Rose 'Dinky' putting on a show in the English garden.

 

Rose 'Bukavu'

 

Rose 'Lavender dream'

 

 

Rosehips of the rose 'Pink border'

 

 

Rose 'Love letter'

 

Rose 'Caramella'

 

Rose 'The fairy'

 

Rose 'Diamond border'

 

 

Rose 'Robe de soie'

 

 

To the left, part of the English garden where all of the above roses and more can be found.

 

Next time, roses from the French garden.

 

 

Marian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GBBD August: End of summer

 

 

 This month has felt more like Autumn instead of Summer and with

all the rain and wind we've been having, flowers have had it even

harder than they already do in our garden. The roses never lasted

very long and  Dahlia's seem to be blooming one flower at the time.

The Japanese Anemones on the other hand have been blooming

for over a month now and with two containers of them on either

side of the bench right in front of the kitchen window, I get the

most out of them and enjoy their lovely sight. The white Echinacea

may not be as resilient to the wind we've had but is also still a pretty sight,

also in the container garden though, nothing blooming in the garden

at the moment. Hydrangeas have had it hard this year and are really not looking

their best. Geranium Endressii has now gone into rest. I cut it back a bit

and new fresh foliage is already starting to appear. Looking good!

So sorry I can't show you more different flowers, I really wish I could,

I really tried but the Cosmos for example has grown so high but without

flowering. I tried to find the reason for it but couldn't find the answer.

With all the wind and rain, it's now looking even more miserable,

certainly not photoworthy, so you see, I do try but this year has been

so extreme and crazy, it didn't have a great effect on the garden.

 

 

 

 

Marian

 

Tyne Cot

Over the last two weeks I have been driving past this war cemetery twice a day almost every day, so last week I decided I had to stop and take the time to visit it. It's amazing how many people visit the cemetery, especially now with all the commemorations for the start of the first world war a century ago. Even the smaller cemeteries, like the two on either end of the street where we live, have much more visitors now. I think this will be something that will continue for the next four years and then calm down again and the deafening peace and quiet and the overwhelming feeling when entering one of the cemeteries will then return, not that that feeling isn't there now but it's different, not as touching as when you enter it alone without anyone else there. It is a good thing this Great War is remembered, especially with all the war that's going on in the world again now. That saddens me so much, maybe even more because I've been living in the middle of what was once a battlefield and now has so many cemeteries with soldiers from all over the world that came here to fight for freedom. Tyne Cot cemetery is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery on the continent and is therefore one of the most visited ones. So many young people lost their lives here, so so sad.

 

Dome with angel on one of the chapels that are on either end of the Tyne Cot

Memorial of the Missing wall in the cemetery.

 

This is the back entrance to the cemetery.

 

The cross of sacrifice with the stone of remembrance in front of it,

better visible in the picture below.

 

  

On the left, one of the chapels and the Tyne cot Memorial of the Missing wall

that goes on all the way to the right where there is a similar chapel but not in the picture.

On the wall are over 34000 names of soldiers that were never found but

lost their lives here during the first world war after the 16th of August 1917.

All the soldiers without a known grave that lost their lives before that time are

on the walls of the Menin gate as you might know.

This Tyne Cot memorial wall is therefore the sequel to the Menin gate. 

 

Graves, grass and flowers are constantly very well taken care of.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

In this picture you see the front entrance to the cemetery.

From the cemetery you have a magnificent view on the surrounding fields

and you can see Ieper lying in the distance.

  

Tyne cot Memorial of the Missing and the Stone of Remembrance in front of it;

in between more graves of soldiers. There are 11954 soldiers buried here,

but as many graves as there are, this is an open cemetery which means that

when remains of soldiers are still found in the surrounding fields,

they will be buried here. The last burial was in 2006.

When remains are found, they are sent to Scotland to be identified

before they are brought back to get a proper burial in this cemetery.

 

One of the gardeners at work in the grave area right in front of the Tyne Cot Memorial of the Missing.

 

 

 

“More than any other modern war, ’14-’18 lives in the memory as

the ultimate example of a mismatch between what was at stake

and the price that was paid. It is the war of the ‘lost generation’,

sacrificed for a cause which, in hindsight, is difficult to pinpoint.”

(Sophie De Schaepdrijver).  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marian