Rumsey Rose Garden (Impressions) - Parramatta. 25th October 2013.

With roads and National Parks closed and a thick smoke haze covering Sydney from the fires still burning in the mountains, today wasn't a good one to travelling far.

The Heritage roses in this garden were a gift from Heather and Roy Rumsey and are now maintained by the Heritage Roses Group and the Parramatta Park Trust.

I would have more of a chance of walking to the moon than putting paint to canvas/paper and it being called 'art'. Today's effort is what I imagined I might have been able to do with easel and palette, if I had the skills, with the roses of the Rumsey's.
Images labelled 'Rumsey Rose Garden'  had no labels with the plants or I could just not work out which was which.
 

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 Rumsey Rose Garden.

 



 Rumsey Rose Garden

 



Damask Rose

 



Rosa rugosa  'Scabrosa'

 



Damask Rose

 



'Captain Christy'

 



'Francecis Dubreuil'

 



 Rumsey Rose Garden

 



'Old Blush'

 



'New Dawn'

 



'Crepuscule'

 



'Rosa rugosa typica'

 



'Honorine de Brabant'

 



 Rumsey Rose Garden

 



'Albertine'

 



 Rumsey Rose Garden

 



 Rumsey Rose Garden

 



'Old Blush'

 



'Albertine'

 



 Rumsey Rose Garden

 



'Rosa rugosa typica'

 

'Mme Alfred Carriere'

( I will post a follow-up blog this later this week showing the flowers how they really were)