THE ROSES OF THE YEAR 2022/23

Author: Marysia Zipser, Beeston-Nottingham, UK

Here is my watercolour attempt referenced to a Hanky Panky rose photo print I took five years ago in my garden. I’ve only had five short watercolour classes from Beeston watercolourist and teacher Anjana Cawdell. Also I attach two other photos taken in my garden today.

Thank you, Marysia Zipser, Beeston-Nottingham, UK

The Hanky Panky story

The Hanky Panky rose was bred in 2000 in California by rose hybridizer Tom Carruth for Weeks Roses. From then onwards it was distributed to worldwide rose growers and then to garden centres, where my Mum first bought it at Wheatcrofts garden centre (now Notcutts) at Edwalton, Nottingham in 2006/7.

This rose means so much to me and meant so much to my dear Mum, from whose garden I transplanted it to my garden after she passed in late 2011. I moved to…