|
|
|
English Roses have won many different prizes from independent trials held around the world.
These include prizes for fragrance, for excellent all-round garden performance, for growing as climbers and as winners of the people's award. We were delighted when Gertrude Jekyll was voted the Nation's Favourite Rose by BBC Gardener's World viewers. More recently, Graham Thomas was voted the World's Favourite Rose by the World Federation of Rose Societies.
Some of the English Roses have won several different awards. One of our most well-recognised varieties is Molineux, with eight awards, while Teasing Georgia has won awards for fragrance, as a shrub and as a climber.
Click here to see varieties which have won the RHS Award of Garden Merit.
|
During winter and spring, work continues at the nursery to prepare roses for displays created for the major European flower shows.
David Austin Roses have been awarded fourteen Gold Medals for displays of roses at The Chelsea Flower Show.
Awards have also been won at BBC Gardener's World and The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and at Courson in France. In 2006, we won our first show award in Moscow.
|
|
|
Darcey Bussell on our display at The Chelsea Flower Show 2006
|
|
|
Born in 1926, David CH Austin still works most days at his Shropshire nursery alongside his eldest son, also called David.
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's birthday honours list 2007 and was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the Royal Horticultural Society in 2003 for his services to horticulture. He has received The Queen Mother's International Rose Award and the Dean Hole Medal, both from the Royal National Rose Society. He was given an Honorary MSc from the University of East London for his work on rose breeding.
His original book 'The English Roses' was awarded the prize for best gardening book of 1994 by the Garden Writers association.
|
|
|
