David Austin Roses Limited

Roses for bedding:
Ambridge Rose, Charlotte, Darcey Bussell, Mary Rose, Molineux,
Sophy’s Rose, Winchester Cathedral.
Thornless roses:
These roses are completely thornless, or nearly so. These
varieties can all be grown as shrubs or trained as climbers:
A Shropshire Lad, Heritage, Tea Clipper.
Garden roses for cutting:
Almost any double-flowered rose is suitable for cutting to
create arrangements for the home. Roses are very beautiful
when cut freshly from the garden, but have a very short vase
life, so we recommend that they are plunged in a bucket of
water as soon as they have been cut to help extend their lives.
These are some of our favourites:
Brother Cadfael, Charlotte, Eglantyne, Golden Celebration,
Graham Thomas, Jubilee Celebration, L.D. Braithwaite,
Molineux, Noble Antony, Sir John Betjeman, Tess of the
d’Urbervilles, The Alnwick Rose, William Shakespeare 2000.
A listing of our new luxury cut roses can be found on page 57.
Please note that these are only available as stems for bouquets,
events and weddings, not as garden plants.
English Standard Roses:
Standard Roses (sometimes known as Stem Roses) are a great
way to add height to a border or can be used as specimens in a
lawn or on either side of a path. English Roses have a natural
growth habit and beautiful fragrant flowers, making them
ideally suited to being grown in this way. In a large bed, a
group of three or four planted closely together can be very
effective. Here are some of our favourites:
Golden Celebration, Grace, Mary Rose, Molineux, The Alnwick
Rose, The Endeavour, William Shakespeare 2000, Windermere.
Hedges
Roses make excellent hedges either as impenetrable barriers or
as very floriferous internal boundaries within a garden.
Shorter hedges form an attractive dividing wall, while taller
hedges may require support from a fence or wire netting.
Please see page 48 for more information. Here are some of our
favourite hedging roses:
Anne Boleyn, Charlotte, Crocus Rose, Darcey Bussell, L. D.
Braithwaite, Mary Rose, Molineux, Munstead Wood, Sophy’s Rose,
Scepter’d Isle, Strawberry Hill, Teasing Georgia, The Alnwick Rose,
The Mayflower.
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English Roses in a mixed border