... Make sure it's an English Rose.
Go to any good garden centre and ask to be shown the roses.
There are many growers but I always grow roses from David Austin so these are the type I shall tell you about.
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Advantages: Repeat flowering, wonderful scents Disadvantages: Hard to choose which one to buy
...sort. Make sure it's an English Rose.
Go to any good garden centre and ask to be shown the roses.
There are many growers but I always grow roses from David Austin so these are the type I shall tell you about.
These roses are bred so that they not only look beautiful but flower almost repeatedly throughout the season. They all have the scent and the appearance of older roses. They all seem far more disease resistant than ... ...roses sucessfully on very heavy clay soil although the soil in my present garden is a little better.
You can get all the growing advice you need from the garden centre, or books (remember they're free from the library) oe even look it up on the internet. The information is out there.
And do we rember that we should always plant in autumn? Well maybe we should, but I don't.
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Roses are out of fashion. They're diseased, they're boring, they're hard work and they don't smell anymore. Oh no, no. You're so wrong. Things have moved on since the sixties.
Buy yourself a rose bush. Not just any sort. Make sure it's an English Rose. Go to any good garden centre and ask to be shown the roses. There are many growers but I always grow roses from David Austin so these are the type I shall tell you about.
These roses are bred so that they not only look beautiful but flower almost repeatedly throughout the season. They all have the scent and the appearance of older roses. They all seem far more disease resistant than some of the older varieties.
I've grown roses sucessfully on very heavy clay soil although the soil in my present garden is a little better. You can get all the growing advice you need from the garden centre, or books (remember they're free from the library) oe even look it up on the internet. The information is out there.
And do we rember that we should always plant in autumn? Well maybe we should, but I don't. Get your rose in it's nice plastic pot. Choose it when you can see exactly what shape, colour and smell (Oh that smell!) you want. Rush it home and soak it in water. Plant it and start enjoying it. Remember this is just the beginning for your rose. Keep watering for the first summer and after that follow the advice in your book.
There's so much choice of colour. You can have peaches, creams, pinks, purples, reds, oranges, yellows and whites. My favourites are Cottage Rose, Abraham Derby, Eglantyne and Graham Thomas. I've only had one that doesn't flower as often as I'd like. This is called Benjamin Brittain but the colour of the flowers makes up for this. It's a lovely soft red but the centre appears to glow with a beautiful yellow/orange shade. I have underplanted it with a very dark blue lavender and it's a stunning combination.
Coming home on a stll sunny day is such a pleasure. You can smell my roses long before you get to my gate.
These are not like a quick-fix bedding plant. One of these roses will cost between £8 to £12 but it may well outlast you and even if you don't take care of it at all once it's established, it will just go on taking care of itself.
Tips for all you no chemical devotees follow.
Mulch in autumn. In spring rake it up again and burn it. Mulch with compost again. Plant a few cloves of garlic around the plant and give a feed and spray with liquid seaweed every month from spring to late summer. I'm not sure which of these is the effective bit but this even works on older varieties so I keep doing them all.
Advantages: long lasting flowering span Disadvantages: tend to make mess where they drop
...as they typify the perfect English garden, I thought this was as good a place as any.
The beauty of roses is that most types flower over long periods. Mine start to flower in about April, and providing the dead heads are removed keep flowering until about September.
I think they give the English garden that good old fashioned look and because they are permanent if you buy a rose bush theres no question of getting value for money.
When I first ... ...have a garden all planted with roses, but I was a bit frightened to know how and when to prune them.
My father in law offered to come along and do the task in hand and did them while I was at work, when I arrived home I was nearly in tears. All that was left was a few sticks on each bush, I was convinced he had killed them!
Next spring they absolutely flourished and grew back at an amazing rate with beautiful blooms. Needles to say my confidence ...
y2krosebuddie 24.03.2001
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Advantages: Beautiful flowers Disadvantages: Hard to grow - i think, based on the amount of work my Granny puts in!
The English Rose could be described as the british beauty. It comes in a whole range of colours although the most common is red and it's fragrance is clear and sweet. The flower has a very defined shape and is often seen as representational of love.
COLOUR RANGE, SCENT & ROBUSTNESS:
Red is the most common as for-said. This red has alot of intensity, and is almost a blood red. As deep as the colour is, so is its sweet fragrence and its symbolic ... ...is not so common: pink petals with a yellow interior. These roses are very delicate and are not as robust as the red rose. The shape is not so well defined either, nor the scent so clear and precious, but this is a softer and in some ways more beautiful rose and you can make a gentler statement by giving these.
The most rare, but most beautiful roses around have white petals with a deep red interior. The white symbolising innocence and purity whilst ...
Kram_Eniarrol 16.03.2001
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Advantages: Great roses, excellent service, hard to find roses Disadvantages: A bit pricey
of the plants I needed from David Austin and they duly arrived more or less exactly the week that they had led me to believe in the late Autumn and they were of a particularly high calibre, with some splendid Old English style roses, like Gertrude Jekyll and Graham Thomas, and I was absolutely delighted. They all worked out splendidly and have been absolutely true to the catalogue description which was first rate.
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Advantages: They're pretty and smell nice Disadvantages: They sometimes attack you
high with an equal spread, in full bloom and cost £10.95. I'll admit that compared to the £2.99 roses that are sold in plastic packages in supermarkets, this probably seems a bit steep, but you really have to see the quality of he plants to appreciate the prices difference and you'll certainly never find the same variety of choice in a supermarket. The choice is huge! I don't have a definite figure but there must be at least a thousand different roses available ranging from David Austin's speciality, the EnglishRose, to Floribundas, Ramblers, Gallicas, Damask, Shrub Roses, Ground Cover Roses, Wild Roses and Standard Roses, each beautiful in its own right.
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