How does your garden sound?

[Flosshilde]

I've recently bought a rose bush named after Benjamin Britten - it's described as having a "rich, fruity scent", and is a deep pink (is it the rose you have as your avatar, Mary?). A friend has some gladioli named after Peter Pears - he said that they are a rather bright orange colour. I think they would be somewhat discordant grown together, both in form and colour - not ideal companions.

Has anyone else got plants named after composers (or any other musicians)?

[doversoul1]

I’ve never grow them but there is a variety of potatoes called Vivaldi. Maybe an all-year-round type…?

[MrGongGong]

We have some fruit in a Cage (or rather don't whistle )
and this years tomatoes were a bit Scheidt

[amateur51]

I’ve never grow them but there is a variety of potatoes called Vivaldi. Maybe an all-year-round type…?

certainly a heavy cropper, dovers

But no concerto for tuba?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There are roses named after Handel and Kathleen Ferrier, a Thuja called Rheingold and a hybrid lily called Vivaldi - all of which happily grow outdoors in the Pennines.

There are species of roses named after many Musicians - interestingly, Verdi has one, but not Wagner (so no Ring-a-Ring o' Roses).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rose_cultivars_named_after_people#V

[Bryn]

I know, I know.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There are species of roses named after many Musicians - interestingly, Verdi has one, but not Wagner (so no Ring-a-Ring o' Roses).

Ooops! There is a rose called "Richard Wagner" - it's listed under "R".

[amateur51]

I know, I know.

[Mary Chambers]

I've recently bought a rose bush named after Benjamin Britten - it's described as having a "rich, fruity scent", and is a deep pink (is it the rose you have as your avatar, Mary?). A friend has some gladioli named after Peter Pears - he said that they are a rather bright orange colour. I think they would be somewhat discordant grown together, both in form and colour - not ideal companions.

Yes, my avatar is indeed the Benjamin Britten rose. It flowered particularly well this year - must have known it was its centenary. In fact there are still a few flowers and new buds. I'd describe it as a slightly orangey red, rather than pink.

I did once try to grow the Peter Pears gladioli, but no luck. They aren't easy things to grow. When it was launched, there was also one named after Benjamin Britten, a lavender/lilac colour. It didn't survive the way the Pears one did, and I doubt it it's obtainable any more. BB and PP gave sacks of them to their friends in Russia, I believe. (Is that legal?) I remember seeing the PP one in the Red House garden when Pears still lived there, about 1981, I think.

Didn't David Austin Roses (of which the BB is one) have one named after Elgar, too?

[salymap]

Yes, my avatar is indeed the Benjamin Britten rose. It flowered particularly well this year - must have known it was its centenary. In fact there are still a few flowers and new buds. I'd describe it as a slightly orangey red, rather than pink.


I did once try to grow the Peter Pears gladioli, but no luck. They aren't easy things to grow. When it was launched, there was also one named after Benjamin Britten, a lavender/lilac colour. It didn't survive the way the Pears one did, and I doubt it it's obtainable any more. BB and PP gave sacks of them to their friends in Russia, I believe. (Is that legal?) I remember seeing the PP one in the Red House garden when Pears still lived there, about 1981, I think.

Didn't David Austin Roses (of which the BB is one) have one named after Elgar, too?

Ithink there was a Dorabella rose, so a friend of a musician.

[Flay]

but not Wagner (so no Ring-a-Ring o' Roses).

[Mary Chambers]

Ooops! There is a rose called "Richard Wagner" - it's listed under "R".

And the Sir Edward Elgar one is listed under S. No wonder I couldn't find it at first.

[Richard Tarleton]

From the title I expected this thread to be about birdsong and the like. Our garden sounds dramatically different to how it sounded a couple of years ago before our rookery relocated itself (voluntarily) to trees a few hundred yards away. Still a cacophony of roosting jackdaws in the evening in winter. Buzzards mewing and ravens croaking a regular feature, the odd peregrine if we're lucky.

[vinteuil]

From the title I expected this thread to be about birdsong and the like. .

Likewise!

Richard's Pembroke habitat will clearly be a seriously interesting one.
Here in Shepherd's Bush the predominant bird noises are - blackbirds, blue tits, parakeets, pigeons, seagulls, jays.
But we also have the rumble of the Circle Line trains, police sirens, hovering overhead helicopters, drunken passers-by - so we too are not without our interesting local colour...

[Padraig]

Here in Shepherd's Bush the predominant bird noises are - blackbirds, blue tits, parakeets, pigeons, seagulls, jays.
But we also have the rumble of the Circle Line trains, police sirens, hovering overhead helicopters, drunken passers-by - so we too are not without our interesting local colour...

Sssshhhh! for 3.42....no 4.53..... about 5 minutes!