David Austin Roses are Here!
Add Some Beautiful Color and Fragrance To Your Garden! David Austin's English Roses combine the forms and scents of old roses with the repeat flowering of modern roses. They can be grown as wonderful shrubs or as short climbers.
David Austin Roses
Benjamin Britten ® (Ausencart)
A beautiful variety with blooms of a distinct red colouring. Strongly fragrant.
Here is a variety of unusual colouring for an English Rose - strong salmon-pink that changes with age to a particularly strong shade of pure pink. Deeply cupped flowers gradually develop into an open, slightly cupped rosette.
Benjamin Britten is a useful rose to provide a highlight among the softer shades of most English Roses. It is of medium height; vigorous, with dense growth and excellent foliage. Ideal for the border or may be grown in a large pot or container.
The fragrance is intensely fruity, with aspects of wine and pear drops.
Named to commemorate the life and work of the famous English composer, conductor and performer.
Benefits from summer pruning.
4 ft. x 3 ft. or 8-10 ft. climber
David Austin Roses
Lady of Shalott (Ausnyson)
This rose promises to be one of the most robust and hardy roses in our collection. It is also highly resistant to disease and it will bloom with unusual continuity throughout the season. Indeed, it is an ideal rose for the inexperienced gardener.
The young buds are a rich orange-red. These open to form chalice-shaped blooms, filled with loosely-arranged petals. Each petal has a salmon pink upper side which contrasts beautifully with the attractive golden-yellow reverse. The chalice shape means that the undersides of the petals are clearly seen, revealing glimpses of the deeper colour in the heart of the bloom. There is a pleasant, warm, tea fragrance, with hints of spiced apple and cloves. Lady of Shalott quickly forms a large, bushy shrub with slightly arching stems. The mid-green leaves have attractive, slightly bronzed tones when young.
Named for the Tennyson Society to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s birth. The name is taken from one of his favourite poems of the same name.
4 x 3½ft or 8ft as a climber.
David Austin Roses
Munstead Wood (Ausbernard)
David Austin Recommended Variety
New deep crimson roses are always a welcome addition to our collection. The flowers of this variety are in fact light crimson in the bud but, as the centre gradually reveals itself, it becomes a very deep velvety crimson while the outer petals remain rather lighter in colour. They are of large size and cupped at first, becoming shallowly cupped with time. As the flower ages we get glimpses of the stigma and stamens amongst the petals.
The growth is quite bushy, forming a broad shrub with good disease-resistance. The leaves are mid-green; the younger leaves being red-bronze to form a nice contrast.
There is a strong Old Rose fragrance with a fruity note. Our fragrance expert, Robert Calkin, assesses this as ‘warm and fruity with blackberry, blueberry and damson’.
Munstead Wood was Gertrude Jekyll’s own garden in Surrey where she worked on her many gardening books.
3 ft. x 2.5 ft.
