Roses from the Arctic to Australia - What’s in a Name?

This year, following on from our successful 2022 series on the rose in partnership with the Historic Roses Group, the Gardens Trust is happy to announce a new rose-related lecture series, again with the HRG, this time including an international slant.

With speakers hailing from Iceland to Australia, via England, Italy and the USA, these talks are wide-ranging. We begin with a portrait of a popular 19th century rosarian who loved riding as much as roses, knew everyone on the literary scene, was a celebrity preacher and organised the first ever National Rose Show in London. An account of a hillside rose garden in Italy which started as a collection of pots on a terrace in Rome; how to grow roses in the Arctic Circle and ‘down under’ on a working Australia farm; the intriguing stories behind the names of some romantic heritage roses; and where to find a unique UN Food and Agriculture Organisation collection of the other – edible - members of the rosaceae family continue the series. We finish with practical advice about training and pruning your climbers, whether roses or wisterias, from a professional horticultural gardener, the latest in three generations of market gardeners and a shows organiser and designer whose sumptuous stands have won medals for the Historic Roses Group at the Hampton Court Flower Show.

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This ticket is for this individual session and costs £5, and you may purchase tickets for other individual sessions via the links below, or you may purchase a ticket for the entire course of 7 sessions at a cost of £28 via the link here. [Gardens Trust members may use their promo code for an additional 10% discount.]

Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days prior to the start of the talk, and again a few hours before the talk. A link to the recorded session (available for 1 week) will be sent shortly afterwards.

Due to a recent Apple decision to charge a 30% fee for paid online events unfortunately you may no longer be able to purchase this ticket from the Eventbrite iOS app. Please use a web browser on desktop or mobile to purchase or follow the link here.

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Week 1. 17 April: The Humour of Hole. First in a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Week 2. 24 April: The Other Rosaceae - Brogdale and the National Fruit Collection. Second in a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Week 3. 1 May: The Role of a Rose Garden on A Working Farm. Third in a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Week 4. 8 May: Can you grow roses in Iceland? Fourth in a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Week 5. 15 May: What’s in a Name? Fifth in a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Week 6. 22 May: Il Piccolo Roseto di Giovanni Chilanti. Sixth in a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Week 7. 29 May: Pruning and training: Getting the Best out of Roses and Wisteria. Last in a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

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Week 5. 15 May: ‘What’s in a Name?’ with Darrell Schramm

If you’ve ever wondered how or why an historic/heritage rose obtained its name, you may be interested in this talk. Who or what was the original inspiration for these often tantalising names? Were the roses named for celebrities of the past, for particular places or famous events, or for people who were linked personally to the rose breeder? More prosaically, did hard-nosed business play a starring role? If so, did this do the trick and help bring profit for the breeder and lasting fame for the person, place or event – or for the rose? Darrell Schramm will briefly discuss the background or history behind about four dozen old garden roses, and show you beautiful images of them, too. It will be a virtual story time. Pour yourself a cup of tea - or maybe something stronger - and be prepared to be enlightened, amused and entertained.

A teacher and professor for about 45 years, Darrell Schramm taught literature, English composition, poetry, editing, and rhetoric, and is now retired from University of San Francisco. He was born in North Dakota, and has also lived in Colombia, Portugal, and Spain. His publications include a book of poetry and Rainbow: A History of the Rose in California (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017), as well as poetry in more than 100 poetry publications, plus articles in various academic magazines and journals. He is currently editor of Rose Letter for The Heritage Roses Group and of The Vintage Rose for The Friends of Vintage Roses, and American Rose Society Chair for Heritage Rose Preservation, as well as a member of the Historic Rose Group and a regular contributor to the Historic Rose Journal.

Image: R. 'Monsieur Jules Lemaitre’, Hybrid perpetual, ©Darrell Schramm

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