David Austin have launched just four new roses this year at RHS Chelsea, including a repeat flowering rambler, The Albrighton Rambler that, to my mind, will be a best seller for the Shropshire firm. So pretty! So useful…
Carolyn Knight is a sport of Summer Song, a rich gold to the parental burnt orange. Thomas a Becket, their first red/carmine pink ‘old rose’ hybrid, they have every right to be excited about. The Lady Gardener, I’ll wait to see the plant mature and flower and am sure that I can be persuaded…
Christmas came early today with a trolley full of these newbies. Fantastic to have them during Chelsea Week. Drool.
The Teddington Gardener 