Gertrude Jekyll is a stunning Rose with s lovely scent, I am sure I read it can be trained as a short climber but the staff at David Austin can advise you. If you can you should visit the garden/ nursery it's a lovely day out and the cakes in the restaurant are amazing!
For me the best DA overall shrub is desdemona as it ticks all the boxes...stunning white/pink chalice flowers..lovely citrus scent. But best of all its not fussy. I put two in this summer and both are doing well. He also seems to grow desdemona quite a lot at his gardens
GJ has the best scent from da imo and flowers are beatiful..but perhaps not quite as healthy or lush as demondoma. Munster wood, olivia austin rose are also stunning shrub types
Wollerton old Hall, Shropshire lad and strawberry hill are nice climbers too
Gertrude Jekyll is a stunning Rose with s lovely scent, I am sure I read it can be trained as a short climber but the staff at David Austin can advise you. If you can you should visit the garden/ nursery it's a lovely day out and the cakes in the restaurant are amazing!
Thanks for the recommendation. I do want something with a lovely scent. I’m In Northern Ireland but luckily Dobbies here sells David Austin Roses and they have a cafe too 😁
I have Princess Alexandra of Kent. Such a deep colour, and such a beautiful scent. Hope you find, as I have done, that they just get better and better!
At the moment my preferred rose colour would be white, cream or apricot but it could well be that scent wins the day when it comes to it.
It will be be my first ever selected rose although I do have a straggly one in a container left behind by a previous owner. I thought it had died in the heatwave as I didn’t water it but it is alive and greening up again. It may deserve a place in my border. Not sure what it is but is a small bright red rose currently not flowering.
Lovely roses, I hope they do well for you.... You should be advised though that 'Wollerton Old Hall' will soon outgrow your pot, so I hope you've got somewhere in the ground planned for that one in particular... it throws up very tall lanky canes that need support... best of luck with your gorgeous roses...
Mine ones I planted last year are much stronger this year, the new ones are still droopy but will get there. Three years is the reckoning before they get really good and strong. I have about twenty DA.s Lady of Shallott is lovely, but she does want to climb and will probably some support. Here’s my Gertrude Jekyll in a large pot, seems really robust and a good bloomer and L of S in the ground:
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sure I read it can be trained as a short climber but the staff at David Austin can advise you. If you can you should visit the garden/ nursery it's a lovely day out and the cakes in the restaurant are amazing!
GJ has the best scent from da imo and flowers are beatiful..but perhaps not quite as healthy or lush as demondoma. Munster wood, olivia austin rose are also stunning shrub types
Wollerton old Hall, Shropshire lad and strawberry hill are nice climbers too
It will be be my first ever selected rose although I do have a straggly one in a container left behind by a previous owner. I thought it had died in the heatwave as I didn’t water it but it is alive and greening up again. It may deserve a place in my border. Not sure what it is but is a small bright red rose currently not flowering.