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A Rose By Any Other Name…

March 7, 2021 By David E. Perry

 

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”                              
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Dedicated rosarian? Rose admirer? Rose curious?

If roses make you swoon or simply leave you wondering why they make so many others swoon, this lecture is for you. Think roses are too fussy? Too disease prone? Too much work? Afraid roses may be above your gardening capabilities? Yep, this talk is for you, too.

Roses get a bad rap.

I know many garden designers who mostly shun roses from their designs. Some practically run away at the thought of them, fearing that they will prove the weak link in whatever beautiful plans they have created for their clients’ gardens. A few years ago I was walking a garden with a garden magazine editor who turned to me suddenly and asked, outright, “So, what’s with you and all the roses?” He was mystified that I photographed so many rose stories for other publications and nonplussed that I could consider them worthy of adoration and dedicated storytelling, at all.

So roses have a reputation for being difficult and sometimes more trouble than they’re worth in a garden… But, seriously, how many other plants can you think of that can survive, even thrive for decades in some abandoned graveyard? Roses are tough and tenacious. Sure, some of them will break your heart in a given year, but how is that any different from tomatoes, or peonies? You don’t hear anyone talking about not growing them.

Roses are many things to many people. They feed the eyes, delight the nose. Roses come in all shapes and sizes, provide wild sweeps of color and texture. In my humble experience, many roses are anything but fussy.

Prepare to be delighted and surprised. Prepare to feel vindicated and perhaps, better understood.

Storyteller/photographer, David Perry has dedicated a great deal of time photographing in some profoundly inspiring rose gardens, and even more in gardens that simply embrace roses as members of a much larger and more complex garden family. He grows nearly fifty different roses in his own Seattle garden without any pesticides and believe me, no one would ever think to call his garden a rose garden. Instead, it is a garden with roses that grow quite happily in and among an abundance of other shrubs, trees, grasses and plants.

A Rose By Any Other Name; if nothing else, this lecture promises to get your group talking.

 

David E. Perry

About David E. Perry

David is a visual storyteller. The inquisitive son of a zoologist, David grew up in the field with his dad, trapping and preserving specimens for museums, exploring bat caves throughout the South and Southwest and studying the complex interplay between life forms and their ecologies. He began documenting his impressions of the living world around him with cameras at a very early age and has never stopped exploring the world through lens and viewfinder. For twenty five years he specialized in telling other peoples' stories, in Fortune 500 Annual Reports, national ad campaigns and corporate multimedia presentations. In the last dozen or so years David’s work has been featured multiple times on the cover of Fine Gardening and Sunset, and featured in This Old House Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, American Rose, Flower Magazine, Leaf Magazine, Garden Design, Pacific Horticulture, and Northwest Horticulture. David was the co-creator of The 50 Mile Bouquet, and recently completed his third book project, Growing Conifers: The Complete Illustrated Gardening and Landscaping Guide in partnership with John J. Albers, published by New Society Publishers and due out in May, 2021.

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