Colour from the season - Rose velvet fragrance

At this time of year you notice the stems of roses more than in the summer and often their names would seem inappropriate if you had never seem a rose bloom, this dangerously thorny one is called Velvet Fragrance. Roses always remind me of my mum - in the summer she has a garden full of amazing blooms. Though she had already pruned this one - she was ok about me taking off a bit more and luckily of course I have my new secateurs..x

...from my seasonal colour notebook.