{"id":611960521030,"date":"2025-11-13T14:14:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/uncategorized\/david-austin-roses\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T07:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:06:42","slug":"david-austin-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/roses\/david-austin-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"David Austin Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What makes David Austin roses different?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"David Austin roses combine the fragrance, fragility and romance of traditional English roses with the disease resistance and repeat-flowering capacity of modern hybrids. His colours work unusually well \u2014 strident varieties like Gertrude Jekyll and Princess Anne look vibrant rather than jarring; pastels like Desdemona and Wildeve sing rather than appearing washed out. All are strongly fragrant, making them excellent cut flowers and garden plants.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Are David Austin roses good for gardens and cutting?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Yes on both counts. The strong fragrance and beautiful flower forms make them excellent cut flowers. In the garden, their colours and forms evoke a sense of English heritage and romance \u2014 named after icons like Darcey Bussell, The Lady of the Lake, and Munstead Wood, they tend to become garden favourites quickly.\"}}]}\n<\/script>\n<!-- merlin:related start --><h3>Related guides<\/h3><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/roses\/best-rose-varieties-shady-gardens\">Best Rose Varieties for Shady Gardens<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/roses\/best-roses\">Which rose should I buy? Choosing the right rose for walls, borders, scent, shade and cutting<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/roses\/growing-climbing-and-rambling-roses\">Roses \u2013 to climb or to ramble?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/roses\/how-deadhead-repeat-flowering-roses\">How to deadhead roses \u2014 when to stop, and varieties you should leave alone<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/roses\/how-to-grow-floribunda-roses\">How to grow floribunda roses \u2014 planting, pruning and care<\/a><\/li><\/ul><!-- merlin:related end --><h2>On that note, what started as a warm November has meant that my Simply Beautiful rose &#8211; a cheeky little Ashridge number for Valentine&#8217;s day, tragically bought by me\u2026 for me &#8211; budded up again and despite recent frosts the flowers opened to greet the month.<\/h2>\n<p>All of this incredible rose fecundity and floriferousness may be partly to do with the weather but is also down to the skill of our rose breeders and perhaps the one with the most derring-do is David Austin. People are still beguiled by the English Rose and want them for their gardens. You can suggest prairies of grasses, armouries of Red Hot Pokers, maelstroms of Monardas, Marguerites or Magnolias but nearly everyone plants at least one rose, and we are finding that David Austin&#8217;s unique way of harnessing all of the fragility, fragrance and romance of the traditional English rose together with the longevity, superhero-immune system and Duracell Bunny flowering capacity of modern hybrid roses makes his creations irresistible. Somehow his colours just &#8216;work&#8217;; they are like the Farrow and Ball of the rose world but you don&#8217;t need three coats. His more strident colours, found in roses like Gertrude Jekyll or Princess Anne, do not jar but, to use a technical term, just look hot. His pastels like Desdemona or Wildeve are never insipid or washed out, they sing. And none of this fragrance-free nonsense for him; his roses reverberate with smell, so they make wonderful cut flowers or pausing places in the garden. 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