Roses for Partial Shade? David Austin - "The English Roses enjoy areas of partial shade, providing that there is at least four to five hours of sunshine every day. They make a great way to brighten up a shady area. The main thing is to take care to avoid areas where there are overhanging branches…
Ma Perkins, Mme Caroline Testout, Constance Spry, D T Poulson, Belle Isis, Dainty Maid, Mary Rose, Baroness Rothschild, Chaucer, Mme de Tartas, Lady Mary Fitzwilliam and Duchesse de Montebello – all related to David Austin’s brother-in-law…
Ma Perkins, Mme Caroline Testout, Constance Spry, Belle Isis, Dainty Maid, DT Poulson, Mme de Tartas, Lady Fitzwilliam, Mary Rose, Baroness Rothschild, Chaucer and Duchesse de Montebello - all parents, grandparents, aunts or uncles, great aunts or great uncles - or cousins - of LD Braithwaite - who is David Austin's brother in law! Confused, you will be:…
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Roses – from the Arctic to India
From the Arctic to India Michael Marriott, writing in the Financial Times in May 2011 (link below) Roses are exceptional plants. They vary in size from tiny species of a few centimetres to huge ramblers growing tens of metres into trees. Their flowers can be just a few millimetres across, or 20cm or more, and…
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New Girls on the Block… fresh from David Austin
You might have gathered that it is pretty much Roses All the Way this week and I'll be showcasing the three new roses from David Austin at Petersham Nurseries this coming Friday, when I'll be talking about Old-fashioned and English Roses as part of a full weekend of events celebrating their 10th Birthday Celebrations. I…
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Eschscholzia californica – vivid flowers with a nuclear connection…
I was asked recently where the name for this colourful and superbly-silky-soapy-flower came from and had to look it up. I had assumed the tag 'californica' at least gave a clue as to its heritage and it is in fact native to America and Mexico and is the State Flower of California. The display, above,…
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“I love snorting Roses” – Michael Marriott, Roses & David Austin
More research for a talk later this week and the room here at TG Central is strewn with rose books - thirty of them? Forty? What to include, what to leave out - heading off into all manner of topics and side-alleys and bookmarking pieces to read when I have more leisure.. (when, exactly?) And then…
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Random Beauty, Monday edition
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What’s wrong with my rose?
A gallery of roses photographed over the last couple of days. Rose season has started! It's roses all the way for me this week - well for the season now if I'm honest - and I'm collecting information and articles on a whole range of rose-related topics. The notes which follow cover a whole range…
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Roses all the way… a potted history of David Austin Roses
I'm gathering my thoughts for a talk next week and came across this article in The Telegraph, written by Bunny Guinness. I'll leave her to talk more about Uncle David... Coming up roses How to find out all about the joys of breeding roses from a favourite uncle. The name of the rose: David Austin…
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