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Summary
from Saturday 10 July, 2004
 Rose
Special
This week Cherrie entered the world of roses
with, among others, Dan Pearson, Reg Maxwell,
Dermot O'Neill and Barbara Pilcher.
Listen to the programme for all you ever needed
to know about roses, personal recommendations
of favourite varieties and some new thinking
on where roses can make an impact in the garden.
 Rugosa
Roses
Dan Pearson admitted to a love/hate relationship
with roses describing them as incredibly glamorous
but also badly behaved.
As Dan doesn't use chemicals disease resistant
roses are a useful addition to the garden.
Ruguosa roses make wonderful landscape plants,
with their recurrent flowering and their colourful
hips, and there is a surprising range of plants.
He particularly likes the climging species and
another favourite is the incense rose, rosa
primula.
Dermot O'Neill loves the old-fashioned varieties
and described them as the stalwarts of the garden.
He preferred to get away from formal rose gardens
and inistead incorporated them into the garden
in borders.
 More
Roses
Barbara Pilcher and Cherrie took a stroll around
her garden where one of her favourites was rosa
gallica officinalis, otherwise known as the
apothecary's rose. This has been used since
medieval times for medicinal and culinary purposes.
Barbara also recommended the climbing rose Willaim
Lobb and a repeat flowering china rose called
Old Blush which has deep carmine pink buds which
open  out
to blousey pink roses.
We also learned of Dermot O'Neill's passion
for sourcing old varieties of roses, one of
which took him nine years to find! He believed
that he was the only proud owner in Ireland
but was busy producing new plants to share with
other enthusiasts.
To find out more .
 Other
Rose Facts and Figures
Cherrie also spent some time with Criag Wallace,
Founder of the Rose Society of Northern Ireland
40 years ago and to Colin Dickson n of the famous
Newtownards Rose nursery.
Listeners were also treated to Reg Maxwell's
top rose husbandry tips.
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