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Roses
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin (Auspeet) David Austin Recommended Variety Category English Roses (English Rose Collection) Bred By David Austin Colour Rich yellow Flower Type Double/Full Bloom Hardiness Hardy Fragrance Strong and delicious fragrance varies between a soft, floral Tea and almost pure lemon according to weather conditions. Strong Repeating Excellent Special Characteristics Named after Charles Darwin the…
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Summer Song in November
David Austin rose, Summer Song, flowering today, showcasing a dazzlingly deep sunset red. Roses are of course, mainstays of the summer garden but many varieties, even reluctant repeat flowering kinds, often put on superb Autumn displays (and this goes for shrubs, climbers and some ramblers). Following on from such a beautifully warm and sunny summer,…
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In the pink – The Albrighton Rambler
The Albrighton Rambler - a repeat flowering rambling rose introduced this year by David Austin. This was always going to be my favourite of this year's clutch of new roses from rose breeder, David Austin - a rarity amongst rambling roses, one that flowers several times (repeatedly) in the season (and not just once, a…
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Orange October
Rose, Super Trouper A walk through the gardens at RHS Wisley this afternoon - and it being quite late in the year - this gorgeous super-nova of a rose is still going strong, with impossibly healthy foliage and buds aplenty. This love affair shows no signs of abating!
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What a good year for the roses…..
A late start followed by a long, warm summer and a mild autumn, and the roses are having a ball! So much flower and so many buds promising yet more. What a good year for the roses....
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Nice Pictures…
These pictures will have to suffice for now - snapped today, quite beautiful, with buds that will carry on the show for weeks to come. I really do know quite a lot about them (David Austin all, save Jacques Cartier, a magpie in the nest, which is a true Old Rose) but may I refer…
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A million tiny diamonds…
Geoff Hamilton looking rather marvellous annointed with morning dew - and in not too long, this will very likely be frost. A few photos including Gertrude Jekyll (the pink) and Winchester Cathedral (the white) - all roses from David Austin - and like Geoff, glistening with dew. Gertie we have come across before, a headily…
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Late summer at Sissinghurst
Sissinghurst, now owned by the National Trust, the former home and exceptional gardens of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicholson From 'The Gardens of England and Ireland' by Patrick Taylor The garden at Sissinghurst, famous as it is, has become for many people more an idea, a myth, than reality. Yet to visit the garden (especially when it…
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