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Featured Rose - Internet Special Offer
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We plan to feature different varieties of English Roses and explain a little more about their characteristics and uses in the garden. All the roses selected will be highly recommended and have our standard 12 month guarantee of quality.
Details of our special offer
While a rose is our current featured rose, the internet price will include a 10% discount against our normal price. This applies to all internet orders placed for bare root roses. We are sorry that our discount no longer applies to our previous featured roses.
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Princess Anne - our current featured rose
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‘Princess Anne’ is an exciting new development from an entirely new line in breeding and is ideal for inexperienced gardeners. It was named ‘Best New Plant Variety’ at the UK Grower of the Year Awards in 2011 and was presented with the Royal Horticultural Society's (RHS) Award of Garden Merit in 2012. Whilst it retains the classic full-petalled flowers of an English Rose, its overall character is very different from any other rose we know, with its own very special beauty.
The young flowers are deep pink, almost red at first, with a neat, cupped shape, later opening out to form pure, deep pink rosettes, which finally develop glorious, lilac tones. The undersides of the petals have a pleasing hint of yellow. The central petals face upright but as the flowers mature, their outer petals reflex back, creating a delightful, ruffled effect. The flowers are produced over a long period, held in large clusters; the individual blooms opening in succession.
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There is a medium-strong Tea Rose fragrance. It forms a compact shrub with bushy, upright growth. The thick, highly polished foliage is remarkably resistant to disease. This is a great rose for planting in groups of three, five or more, as the blooms will create a fantastic show of colour in the border. To do this, simply plant each rose about 18” apart, then prune to form a single, shapely shrub. ‘Princess Anne’ would also be an excellent choice for large terracotta pots, or can be grown as a hedge. It is ideal for landscaping projects.
We were honoured to name this rose after Her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal to help raise awareness for Riding for the Disabled, of which she is patron.
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Our discount only applies to our current featured rose, which is Princess Anne - see above.
We have decided to keep the extra information about our previous featured roses available online. All featured roses will be exceptionally desirable and garden-worthy varieties and are well worth considering if you're not sure which rose to choose for your garden.
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This award-winning rose helps to demonstrate the variety and versatility of the English Roses.
The rosette-shaped blooms have a classic tea rose scent with a musky background. Early in the season, the flowers are a lovely pure soft yellow colour. Intriguingly, as the summer progresses, the later blooms often have a warm, orangey tone towards the heart of the bloom. The flowers are held facing upwards and outwards, lacking the nodding character found in many of the classic English Rose varieties.
This rose combines short, even growth and an upright habit with an exceptional ability to repeat-flower throughout the season. Together, these characteristics make Molineux a superb choice for bedding.
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This beautiful rose will also perform exceptionally well if positioned towards the front of a flower bed or will add a warm, summery splash of colour to a cottage garden border.
Roses work surprisingly well in vegetable gardens. Molineux is fantastic when planted in a tight group of three or five roses at the centre of a vegetable plot. It will form a beautiful flowering hedge which makes a cheerful way to partition off part of the garden, for example, if you would like to create an attractive, colourful edge around one or more sides of a vegetable patch. Molineux is a good choice for cutting to make flower posies to decorate the home.
3 x 2ft
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Darcey Bussell (Ausdecorum)
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Our featured rose makes a wonderful choice for smaller gardens. The blooms are upright facing and are held in small clusters. Their colour is rich crimson, often with attractive hints of mauve as the blooms age.
This rose will remain bushy and compact, making it ideal for the front of rose beds or the mixed border. It is very tempting to cut a few blooms to create a posy for the home, although Darcey Bussell, will only last a few days in a vase (unlike its namesake, our newest cut rose variety Darcey, which has been bred specifically for the vase).
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Many of David Austin’s the more compact English Roses are great for container gardening. Use Darcey Bussell in a large, decorative planter or a half barrel to brighten up the patio or balcony.
Regular customers may recall that this rose sold out very quickly in its first season. This is the first year we’ve had sufficient stock to offer it as a featured rose for a short while.
Darcey Bussell requires no special care, other than good soil preparation, feeding and mulching. In summer, to encourage quicker repeat-flowering, just try to get into the habit of wandering round the garden, deadheading the roses as the blooms fade. If you prefer, you can very lightly summer prune, which means that you remove about 6” or so of the stem as you deadhead the roses. In winter, prune down to about half the size.
3 x 2ft
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Scepter'd Isle was chosen as the cover illustration for David Austin's book 'The English Roses' as he felt that it perfectly represents the spirit of his roses.
The name was taken from William Shakespeare's romantic, idyllic description of England in Richard II:
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle...
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea...
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Scepter'd Isle is a pretty rose, with soft pink chalice-shaped blooms that open to reveal glimpses of golden stamens.
The blooms have a powerful fragrance - an outstanding example of the classic English Rose scent based on the myrrh note first introduced with Constance Spry. Scepter'd Isle won the Henry Edland award for fragrance from the UK's Royal National Rose Society.
This beautiful shrub rose has a bushy, upright habit, holding the flowers well above the foliage. It flowers freely and almost continuously throughout the summer.
3 x 2.5ft
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We love Harlow Carr, because this rose has so many of the characteristics we value, combining great beauty with exceptional performance. The medium-sized blooms are of purest rose pink. The flowers begin as delightful, little cups, developing into cupped rosettes of perfect Old Rose formation, with a button eye at the centre. It is one of our most strongly scented varieties with a classic Old Rose fragrance.
Its growth is exceptionally vigorous and healthy, forming an attractively bushy, yet compact, shrub. It is exceptionally free-flowering, bearing its blooms right to the ground. The foliage is similar to that of Old Roses - bronze at first, becoming green with age.
Harlow Carr thrives in many different places and positions. This variety will grow quite happily in areas of partial shade that receive at least 4 - 5 hours of sunlight each day, provided it is not planted underneath the branches of a tree.
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Harlow Carr is deserving of a prime spot in a border; it also makes a superb, medium-sized hedge.
When pruned hard it remains compact and flowers well making it ideal for the front of the border, edging a path or growing in large pots and containers. For exceptional repeat-flowering, dead-head the flowers after they have finished blooming.
David Austin had described the blooms as having 'gem-like beauty'. They are wonderful for cutting to create beautiful displays in the home.
Named after the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden in Harrogate, Yorkshire, to mark the 200th anniversary of the formation of the Society.
Dimensions: 3½ft high x 3ft wide.
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This is one of the most magnificent English Roses, producing many giant, deeply-cupped, golden-yellow flowers. These have a strong fragrance of the tea rose type, later developing deliciously fruity notes which have been compared to citrus, lychee, Sauternes wine and strawberry!
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Each goblet-shaped bloom is filled with many intertwining petals which, unlike those of more stridently-coloured yellow roses, have the utmost delicacy and charm.
Golden Celebration has excellent repeat flowering, although later in the season, the blooms are often slightly smaller, taking on more of a cupped rosette shape.
It forms a nicely rounded, slightly arching shrub with excellent shapely growth and healthy, glossy foliage. Golden Celebration is one of the most reliable and easy to grow roses.
Buy Golden Celebration bare root rose
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This rose is famous for its beautiful and perfectly-balanced old rose scent which many people consider to be the quintessential rose fragrance. It is one of the most strongly scented varieties available and was named in honour of the Victorian garden designer and author.
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Gertrude Jekyll's rich, glowing pink blooms gradually open out rather surprisingly from little scrolled buds into lovely, large rosettes. These have a beautiful old rose formation. The foliage is very similar to a Portland Rose with quite widely spaced matt-green leaflets. This rose is free-flowering, very healthy and reliable in every way, and therefore makes a good choice for newcomers to gardening.
This rose can be grown in mixed or pure rose borders, but is perhaps best placed near to the house or along a path where the perfume can be enjoyed. It will form a vigorous, medium sized shrub with an upright habit.
It can also be trained as a short climber, perfect for walls and small archways. Fan out some of the stems to each side as this will encourage the growth of even more flowering stems.
Petal count: 80 approx
Dimensions: 4ft high x 3.5ft wide or 6 to 8ft as a climber.
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Gertrude Jekyll won the prestigious James Mason award in 2002 for a rose which has given particular pleasure to rose growers. In 2006 it was voted the Nation's favourite rose by BBC viewers.
This variety is closely related to the Portland Roses: a small but very valuable group of beautifully-scented old roses which were at their most popular during the mid-19th century.
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One of the most perfect of all blooms, the outer, incurved petals forming a frame for the numerous petals within. The strong, fruity fragrance and the lovely, fashionable colour add extra desirability to this versatile rose.
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Crown Princess Margareta will form a very attractive shrub with a long flowering season and is ideal for use in mixed borders.
The broad arching growth makes it possible to grow Crown Princess Margareta as a free-standing rose set into a lawn.
To create this effect, plant small groups of three or five spaced about 2 ft apart. When pruning, shape the whole group into the form of a single, large shrub.
Petal count: 120 approx
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Although Crown Princess Margareta is usually thought of as a beautiful shrub rose, with a little encouragement this variety can be trained into a beautiful English Climbing Rose.
English climbing roses will produce stems generously from the base of the plant, flowering almost down to the ground and creating much greater impact than the average climbing rose.
As a climbing rose, Crown Princess Margareta is ideal trained against a wall, perhaps by an entrance where the fragrance can be enjoyed.
This variety also makes a good choice for a small obelisk or pillar as the growth is not so vigorous that it will overwhelm the structure.
When growing against an arch, plant one rose at the foot of each side of the arch. As the roses grow, tie them in so that they eventually meet in the middle.
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More information on training English Roses as climbers
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For cutting to create flower arrangements:
The sophisticated colour and rich fragrance make it tempting to cut this rose for the home, although flowers will only last a few days in water.
For shaded areas:
This rose, like many other English Roses will perform well in partial shade providing there is not too much competition from roots of trees or shrubs and no overhanging branches. It does need at least 4-5 hours sun each day.
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