Island Gardens by Jackie Bennett

Author:Jackie Bennett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Lion 2
Published: 2018-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

La Seigneurie is still home to the Seigneur of Sark.

This area of the walled garden has a more contemporary planting scheme with standard cordylines, and grasses planted among bright red Rosa Glad Tidings.

The gardeners take pride in every corner of the gardens at La Seigneurie.

Now run by La Seigneurie Gardens Trust, the gardens first opened to the public in the 1950s.

ROSA MUNDI

Rosa gallica ‘Versicolor’

The apothecary’s rose (Rosa gallica var. officinalis) has been grown in Europe since at least the medieval period and probably longer. Its deep pink colour was famed in the garden, but also for its myriad medicinal uses. Around 1500, a naturally occurring sport with striped pink and white petals was spotted: Rosa gallica ‘Versicolor’. It soon became known as rosa mundi (rose of the world), after ‘The Fair Rosamund’ – Rosamund Clifford, the lover of Henry II and rival of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This twelfth-century story of rivalry was embroidered many times from the sixteenth century onwards, including the part where Eleanor confronts Rosamund within a labyrinth in the garden of Woodstock Park in Oxfordshire. The rose has stayed popular and is still widely grown as low hedging, being reliable, compact and with a story to tell. Its flowers are semi-double, very scented and prolific in midsummer.

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