Budding First Roses

Here they are, they are full of buds and bursting, the first of this summer's roses are out! We have rambling roses on the arbor and at the front of the house and a variety of rose bushes in our south east facing border in the back garden. They have yet to peak at their best in full bloom, but I love it when they just start to peep out as it always feels like summer is definitely coming. They are earlier this year I think, but that's good as it's like they are saying summer is here!  

Our roses were planted before we moved to our home, so I don't have the variety types - one day I will  try and identify them, but for now here are few pictures of those first buds and blooms...

The Rose

The lily has a smooth stalk,

Will never hurt your hand,

But the rose upon her brier

Is lady of the land.

Theres sweetness in an apple tree,

And profit in the corn;

But lady of all beauty

Is a rose upon a thorn.

When the moss and honey

She tips her bending brier,

And half unfolds her glowing heart,

She sets the world on fire. 

Christina Rossetti

Roses

You love the roses - so do I. I wish

The sky would rain down roses, as they rain

From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?

Then all the valley would be pink and white

And soft to tread on. They would fall as light

As feathers, smelling sweet: and it would be

Like sleeping and yet waking, all at once

George Eliot

Roses

There is a time when the roses bloom 

Sweet and fair,

And the warm noon air

Sates itself with the rich perfume,

And the night - wind sighs through the scented gloom,

Sweet is the time when the roses bloom.

HM Waithman

What's in a name? that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet; 

Shakespeare