The strange rose by the house, as well as bearing the simple white roses and complex pink roses, has a third variant on offer: the complex white.

That blows my mind.
This simple pink belongs to one of the two roses under the back lilac.

And these are from the other rose at the back.




These pink roses do not smell as strong as the complex pink roses of the strange rose, which are lovely - though not as strongly scented as the red or the peach. The peach has yet to come out.
Now (3rd June) the honeysuckle smells great - especially in the evening. The wispy honeysuckle around the front lilac seems to smell more wonderful that that vivacious honeysuckle on the bower. The flowers are smaller and a different colour. It has come into its own since the white lilac was effectively pollarded. Now that the tree has recovered, it may well die back again. Which is a shame.
I see a lot of honeysuckle at the Reserve and I think of all the dormice that could have used it to make their nests and I wonder what moths favour it.
The red rose has been in the same pot, treated rather badly, for 25 years. What a generous plant to produce such beautiful flowers. Three lovely blooms were destroyed by the heavy rain. The rose hadn't expected a monsoon.
The originally-white rose has been in a pot for the same amount of time, but has escaped and entangled itself with some other rose person and become an anomaly. What spirit to break down barriers to flourishing!
Two different attitudes, and both so miraculously pleasurable to the idiot who containted these plants in the first place.
You have an abundance of roses. Lovely. How did the one who escaped from the pot manage the escape??!! Was there an accomplice?? 😉