rose

Rose chafer beetle, cut to white.  Common iridescent garden visitor

One rose cut to white

Guelder rose shrub Viburnum opulus pen and ink with watercolour wash.  Illustration shows the shrub in bloom.

Guelder rose tree Viburnum opulus.  Illustration shows the shrub in blossom.

Japanese rose Rosa rugosa showing magenta petals, bright green foliage and large red rosehips

Rose Rosa pen and ink studies of different roses and details

Rose Rosa rugosa ketchbook study with rosehips and habit sketch

House sparrow Passer domesticus male perching on a branch with rosehips.

Wildflower border roughly following seasonal growth with hellebore, anenome, bluebell and daffodil showing spring; winter aconite, witch hazel, and snowdrops for winter; scabious, foxglove, dog rose, knapweed, poppy, terasel, fringed waterlily and a painted butterfly for summer; mistletoe, Ivy with a spider, violets, holly, primrose, and a hoverfly also make an appearance

Getting rid of rose suckers by removing them from the parent soil under the soil wearing protective gloves

Planting a climbing plant or vine in a container and providing it with support for growth

Leaves and bud and flower of a rose covered wuith powdery mildew and mould, and causing discolouration of the leaves