10 most fragrant rose in my garden 2024 part 2

[@jejupa1]

I love your giggles and I have most of your giggle makers!! Yay!

[@kenvoong5977]

@@jejupa1 Thank you Jenny, sniffing these fragrant roses really gives me so much joy and pleasure. Can’t imagine such simple things can makes us happy. Seasons greetings from uk.

[@peterhaymaker7562]

Thanks Ken for another lovely video of your roses. Just so many to choose from. I'm sure you love them all one way or another and at different times. Roses........... heaven sent, or should that be scent? P.

[@rosegardengems]

Hello Ken, Meilland has outstanding scented roses and very big beautiful flowers. Line Renaud is already 13 years in my garden as a standard tree rose and had enjoyed her scent every year. Pacific Blue is a unique colour rose and the scent is a plus. I’m eyeing on Meteor, I like the rose structure and energetic colour. The number 3 PAOK already had flowers in my garden and I was able to smell it just yesterday, I do like the scent. The other no. 3 Boscobel is just having leaves planted it as bare root end of May. For your number one, Wollerton Old Hall, I can check it in one of our garden Center but Yves Piaget, I just can imagine it. Well done Ken! It’s not easy to choose top 20 roses for scent.🌹🌹🌹

[@kenvoong5977]

Hi Gemma , yes picking 20 of my most fragrant rose proved quite challenging as most of my roses are fragrant. There were some that would have been on this list but unfortunately they weren’t in flower at the time of making this video. The only reason I purchased line renaud, pacific blue and annisete was all thanks to JayJay visiting the eastcroft nursery and giving his opinions. Meiland roses has become my favourite rose for scent and lasting blooms. My next order will be Mary Ann, lady capri and everything Meiland. Their scent is heavenly and smell like perfume. Something many breeders can’t duplicate.

[@kenvoong5977]

Meteor, koko loko pacific and line renaud have been my absolute favourite purchases this year. Definitely recommend if you can buy this in Germany

[@wendybartlett6717]

You really do love your roses don't you Ken? I'm not surprised when I can see how beautiful your garden is. Your daughter is lucky to have two tortoises. My childhood friend had one and it was always getting lost in the garden. You keep away from that rascal Jay Jay's booze cruise. He'll be up to mischief and lead you astray ha ha.😀

[@kenvoong5977]

Hi Wendy, yes they have on many occasion gotten lost amongst the roses.These tortoises really gives me problems because I’m always in the garden and it’s my responsibility to keep an eye 👁️ so they don’t wonder off. 😂lol… JayJay he’s always up to something…Although he can be a bad influence at times but I do learn a lot from watching his channel. I’m sure whatever the boys get up to it’s definitely going to be fun😊

[@wendybartlett6717]

@@kenvoong5977 Yes Ken, Jay Jay is very knowledgeable and knows all about roses. I too have learnt a lot from watching his channel. I wonder if the "other end" knows what's going to hit them when he and Gav arrive!

[@kenvoong5977]

@@wendybartlett6717 Can’t imagine Donna’s agreed to let him on the loose, perhaps jays been on his best behaviour.😇

[@Jay_Jay]

Lovely Ken. Madame Anisette, boscobel and bliss for me. Not one, two and three but my favourite scents out of them ones. Lovely Ken. Check out my response on Gav’s comment if you’re up for it. 😊.

[@JG-vn5fe]

Fantastic video!!! I took notes on Part 1 & Part 2 and enjoyed every minute of them both! ~ Thank you so very much!!!

[@kenvoong5977]

@@JG-vn5fe Glad you enjoyed it and it was my pleasure 😇

[@AlistairMcCulloch-x9o]

Hi Ken.Thankyou for another lovely video.Your roses are stunning.xiz

[@kenvoong5977]

@@AlistairMcCulloch-x9o Thank you Alistair, it was certainly difficult choice to make but enjoyable compiling the list together.

[@Michelle-wh4jb]

Beautiful Roses 🌹 collection ❤️

[@kenvoong5977]

Thank you 🙏

[@gavinparry5426]

Lovely show again Ken! Can you train those Tortoises to eat Aphids? 🤓

[@kenvoong5977]

😂 sound like a good idea Gavin. These tortoises really love eating fallen petals, saves me sweeping 🧹

[@lazarusdouvos]

beautiful roses!!!

[@kenvoong5977]

@@lazarusdouvos 🙏 thank you

[@ronm.catadman5102]

Absolutely beautiful!😮New friend here now and subscriber😊❤❤❤❤

[@kenvoong5977]

@@ronm.catadman5102 thanks for watching and subscribing.

[@KateMok-x6c]

Lovely new collection ❤wish i had sunshine in my garden i feel sorry for my roses surrounded by three trees 😢

[@kenvoong5977]

Lol 😝 sorry Kate, I know these videos are all very tempting.

[@bloombaag]

Fantastic roses. It’s always pleasure to watch your videos. I’m not surprised to see here Meilland roses. Francis Meilland rose has well balanced old rose and fruity fragrance. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. -Rakesh from India

[@kenvoong5977]

Thank you Rakesh, Francis Meiland isn’t sold in uk. It is added to my wish list when I place my order at lottum in Netherlands. I’m absolutely love Meiland roses. Thank you for your info

[@howard2031]

Most people know about the David Austin roses, but if you come across #2 ranked Dee-lish, buy it immediately. I got one for half price that was half dead....2 weeks after I planted it, it had tons of new growth and started blooming incredibly fragrant beautiful pink blooms. Only 3 weeks later, about to flush again and has grown over a foot and is incredibly healthy.They are even widely available at Lowe's and Walmart which is where I got mine. It has outperformed most of my David Austin's.

[@kenvoong5977]

@@howard2031 yes I totally agree, it’s a very beautiful fragrant rose bred by Meiland. I have 1 planted in the ground at the moment and hoping to cultivate few more later this year from cutting.

[@rareandwonderfull]

This winter we shall dream.

[@teslaandhumanity7383]

My favourite is WOH as well ❤

[@kenvoong5977]

@@teslaandhumanity7383 yes WOH really smells amazing. I had no idea the scent was that good as no one has ever mentioned of the fragrance. I just happened to smell this rose on my visit to Da head quarters.

[@Alfakkin]

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[@rareandwonderfull]

3:33 Oh yes! Everyone must have Eustacia Vye, mine is intoxicatingly fragrant and she has a sort of "lantern glow" in the center of her blooms, mine is in her 3rd year now, no blackspot either, while others of my roses drop all of their foliage from blackspot here in Ohio, they then recover before autumn arrives. I inhale through my nose and exhale out my mouth so that my sinuses become thoroughly saturated with her fragrance and it lingers for some time. 6:30 Oh yes! The Poet's Wife, everyone must have her, Mine is in her 4th year now, intense old rose fragrance strongly saturated with grapefruit scent. When I bought her, I got her only because Darwin was sold out, I suspect that she far exceeds Darwin in scent and definitely in pure, luminous, cadmium yellow, her fragrance makes my brain very happy, intoxicatingly fine scent, and blooms open nicely quartered before they disorganize into osette form. Gertrude Jekyll was a beautiful soul, she would be overjoyed to possess such a rose and flattered to have it named after her, she truly earned it, for me, her cottage gardens were far more enchanting than the gardens of large estates. Your comments about Madame Annissette are quite helpful in deciding what to buy this coming springtime. I very much wanted to get a Madame Hardy this year, totally unavailable here in the USA, but in my numerous, longthy searches for Madame Hardy, Madame Annissette continually came in front of me in my searches, so it sounds like Mme. Annissette is one to aqcuire in 6 months. 9:10 Why I put my Earth Angel in the top 10 is her flawless, old Redoute, romantic Victorian cabbage rose form, indeed, a bit of heaven come down to earth, soul meltingly beautiful form and a refresshing old rose scent of good strenght saturated with grapefruit scent, a must have rose, redolent of romantic greeting cards of the 1890s thorugh 1920s, a lovely, lovely rose, also by Kordes. Kordes is more into what I call connoisseur roses, which i define as roses with superlative qualities but plagued with weaknesses that the average rose buyer will not tolerate, but a connoisseur will. What the average buyer will not like about Earth Angel is that in prolonged wet weather her blooms will ball/mummify and fail to open, also her petals are frail and hard, protracted rain will cause her petals to brown and deteriorate, but i repeat, she is WELL worth her difficulties. Yes, David Austin shies away from roses that will disappoint the average buyer, but Kordes throws caution to the wind and says "Let's do this" I admire Kordes for that. I nearly despaired of ever getting a Kordes Pascmina Veranda rose, no scent whatsoever, but flaaless, Redoute, romantic Victorian cabbage rose blooms, she balls very easily in wet weather, so I keep her in a huge pot so that I can get her out of excessive rain, she remains small, 2 feet tall, polyantha size. Truly charming form. Perhaps I should assist her in her dearth of fragrance by spritzing her with someeau de rose? 😆😆 20:18 Fine, springtime, jersey cow butter color! Late winter I shall need to refer back to this, your video, I have not encountered a better commentary on frgrant roses than yours. I would also add my Common Pink Moss rose dating back to the mid 18th century, unopened buds and young soft growth is covered with a gummy resin that has intense scent of fresh ground allspice/pimiento seeds, then the quintessential strong, old rose scent that evokes far distant memories of old roses that I encountered at old houses when I was a small child. It's as if the clamour of mid life financial survival suppresses memories like that, then if we arrive in circumstances where financial stress diminishes, deeply submerged memories resurface. In closing, others are addicted to alcohol or drugs, i am addicted to intoxicatingly fragrant flowers, primarly roses, but closely followed by oriental lilies. Thank you for your show and tell, you are a good teacher.

[@kenvoong5977]

@@rareandwonderfull Reading through your comment is almost like a book of poems. I wish I could have the knowledge and passion you possessed. Unfortunately my English is very limited. Finding the right terminology is almost non existent. I have only started growing roses in the last 4 years. Since then I’ve always been a massive fan of David Austin. Now I’ve starting to venture further with other breeders. Im not quite a connoisseur just yet and probably never will be.

[@nikkonch]

Pacific Blue and Yves Piaget are new ones on me. I'd love to say I agree with all of your choices Ken, but as you say we are all different - anyway this video is about your favourites not anyone else's. Scent is not a big deal for me since my sense of smell is ... sub-optimal. I go more for colour and shape. I have a totally different take on Meteor and The Poet's Wife - my Meteor is a new bare root and I would not describe the blooms as "bright and vibrant" - I find them dull, dark and quite ugly - but maybe as sometimes happens they will change as the bush develops - they do last a long time as cut roses though. Or it may be like the 2 Dublin Bays I have in my front garden - one is bright red and the other a darker red, although they are supposed to be the same rose. I have said before that my example of The Poet's Wife is straggly and more like groundcover - I will admit that maybe if I spent a iit more time and effort putting supports in I might think differently, but that has nothing to do with the scent and colour, which are both very good as far as I can judge. So maybe I am to blame. Anyway, thanks for showing us your choices, they were interesting and gave useful insights about each rose.

[@kenvoong5977]

Hi Nik, yes I was surprised you didn’t mentioned Meteor. I find it’s such interesting rose, something different from the usual colours pinks , red, yellow..etc. yes all I agree poets wife the growth is little straggly and without support it would be disastrous to look at. A very good example for instance, you and Linda’s sweet honey smells just like what it says, yet mine and jays jays has little or no fragrance. I specifically pointed out that this was my personal favourite just to protect myself being harassed.

[@gavinparry5426]

Where do you get Meilland Roses from Ken? We are missing out big time on these Roses. Ive asked Jay Jay to nip over to France in his Motor Home to stock up on them but he refuses. 🤪

[@kenvoong5977]

Hi Gavin, buying Meiland roses in one place is almost impossible, and most retailers don’t have the breeders name on the roses. So finding one isn’t always easy unless you know the name and breeder. Example I know pcdm ( the one that died) is Meiland and I had the chance to go see and smell it at my sisters yesterday. The colour, scent and upright posture makes me want her even more. I know lottum does stock quite a few Meiland roses and that where I’m going to order them next year.

[@gavinparry5426]

@@kenvoong5977 Can you provide more details on Lottum. We can't rely on Jay Jay to fill that Camper van for us of Meilland stock 🤪

[@kenvoong5977]

@@gavinparry5426 yes Jay jays a kordes fan. “TUINCENTRUM LOTTUM”. This company are very cheap and only sends bare root. They sell pcdm around £6. Most of their bare roots are around 6-8 euros. And other called soer Emmanuel is another Meiland rose similar to princess Charlene. They Even sell blue Eden rose and I’ve never seen that before anywhere.These are a must have and few others.

[@Jay_Jay]

@@gavinparry5426ive told you I am going to do a booze cruise, it will happen! Ken your invited and so are you Gav, unless Lin wants to come along. If Lin wants to come along there will be no longer space for you Gav. 😂😂😂 KZbinrs only 😂😂😂

[@kenvoong5977]

😂 He’ll only buy roses 🌹 for women as we have seen on his previous videos…( blood womeneiser) . I know you are his mate and you can certainly forget about 😂

[@cyprus1986]

I got hardly any scent from my princess Alexandra of Kent barely nothing. Was planted this year along side boscobel but boscobel has strong scent very sweet

[@kenvoong5977]

@@cyprus1986 Hi Cyrus, sorry to hear that your POAK doesn’t have any a scent. On the website it’s sold as strong tea/ fruity scent and mine is really scented. Perhaps it needs to be more established. I know some roses smells better as they mature.

[@howard2031]

I don't know what the deal is with my Princess Alexandra of Kent's. I am just getting sporadic blooms, random leggy canes, and most of the leaves have fallen off. Almost every other rose in my garden looks amazing. But the blooms it does produce are huge and very fragrant.

[@kenvoong5977]

@@howard2031 I’ve experience is similar to yours, her growth habit is quite leggy . For me she has been reliable and produce blooms constantly from the start of the season. Her flowers are huge and very fragrant. Majority of David Austin roses prefer cooler climate.