Vanessa Bell® Rose

Vanessa Bell is a new release from David Austin for 2017. Being the palest yellow she is a welcome addition to the our range of David Austin roses for sale which has plenty of golds, but fewer yellows.

Vanessa Bell's charm begins her buds which are very slightly blushing pink and rounded. The mature flower is shades of yellow - the more richly coloured central eye is surrounded by petals that blanch to a creamy white giving the flower a lovely luminous aura. Its shape is rounded and full with a generous clothing of large petals. The flowers grow in clusters and seem ever-present through the summer and into the autumn. Vanessa Bell has fantastic posture, holding herself upright at all times and is not leggy although reasonably tall. Her scent is a little lemony, like her colour, with a whiff of green tea and honey. Delicious.

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Vanessa Bell's soft yellow colouring will fit in with virtually any other scheme in the garden, from pastel hues to vibrant primary colours. Whether your garden is an unruly bohemian affair or a terse and ordered place, Vanessa Bell will shine. Concentrate upon the fact that her rounded bushiness and embarrassment of flowers mean that you could use Vanessa Bell as a stunning hedge - to make a change from all of our other hedging plants. Plant Vanessa Bell with the deep yellow Charlotte to bring out her golden highlights or introduce her to Winchester Cathedral whose pure white flowers would also emphasise her subtle colouring.

Features

Height: up to 1.2 m
Width: up to 75 cm
Colour: palest yellow/white
Shape of flower: cupped, double
Size of flower: medium
Scent: medium, green tea and lemon
Flowering: repeat through summer
Group: Shrub, English Musk hybrid

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Vanessa Bell was named after the artist and interior designer who founded the Bloomsbury group. The sister of Virginia Woolf, her home, Charleston in East Sussex, is now open to the public and a percentage of the sales of each Vanessa Bell rose goes towards the Charleston Trust which maintains the house.

How to plant Vanessa Bell roses

Dig a hole deep enough to allow the graft to finish at soil level when planted and with plenty of room for the roots. Improve the soil from the hole by removing large stones, weeds, roots and other rubbish and mixing in about 25% by volume of well rotted compost or manure. Wet the roots and sprinkle with Rootgrow so it stays in contact with the roots. If planting a pot grown plant gently loosen some of the roots before planting.

Position your Vanessa Bell so the roots ar e spread out and it is set at approximately the same level in the soil as it was before being transplanted. The union should be level with the soil when you have finished planting. Backfill the hole with the planting mix, firming it down as you go. Water in thoroughly. Water again a day or two later and then keep watering in dry spells.

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Delivery: The basic delivery charge for orders of bareroot plants is £6.50 + vat, which increases to £12.55 + vat if you add any pot-grown plants, standard trees or fruit trees to the order.
Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.

Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week if there is no heavy rain.

Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.

Misc	Shrub, Wildlife Value
Area	Frost Pockets, Scotland & The North
Colour	Yellow/Gold
Type	Hedging
Also Good	Repeat Flowering
Flowering	Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep

	NUMBER OF ROSES
SIZES	1-2	3+
BAREROOT ROSE	Stock = 6 £16.95	Stock = 6 £15.25

Vanessa Bell® Roses by David Austin

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Vanessa Bell® Rose

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How to plant Vanessa Bell roses