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Mystery Rose, can you help identify it?

b.bithellb.bithell Posts: 2
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Hello all, we have a rose in the garden that is very fragrant and beautiful. We are moving and the bush is too large to dig up and move so I'd like to enlist your help to identify it please. I think it has been in the garden for about 10 to 15 years.



The bush itself grows in shade with late afternoon sun, is about 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide. The blooms are on individual stems and it is flowering now but continues on with regular dead heading. Does anyone know what it's called please?

Thank you in advance.
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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    If you don't move until September you could take hardwood cuttings off it to take with you.
    @marlorena is good at identifying  roses.
  • b.bithellb.bithell Posts: 2
    Sadly we are moving at the end of this month.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    It does have the look of a David Austin English Shrub rose, but there are thousands of yellow roses and it’s a challenge to say definitively what it is, even if I was any good at ID, which I’m not! The shape of the blooms do look very like my wonderfully fragrant Golden Celebration but my foliage is a lighter, fresher green colour so not certain there. Yours could even be a discontinued variety. 

    More photos would help, of the whole bush, the rose canes showing thorns, more of blooms on the bush at varying stages of opening etc.

    Hopefully someone will be along to help more, but I would take a load of cuttings anyway. If you keep them in a cool shady corner some may well take. I think my one and only successful cutting was taken in summer!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’s possible to take semi-ripe rose cuttings in a deep pot of very gritty compost. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Arthur1Arthur1 Posts: 542
    Still worth taking cuttings in June. They grow well on their own roots. I agree it looks like one of the David Austin roses
  • ShepherdsBarnShepherdsBarn Posts: 401
    Is it worth contacting David Austin? 🙂
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @ShepherdsBarn I have contacted them recently, very helpful.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    It looks a bit like Roald Dahl from David Austin, but that only dates from 2016.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,290
    edited June 2022
    Like @Nollie said, the flowers look like Golden Celebration. Caveat, I'm not very good at rose identification.
    @b.bithell I think you can take cuttings now and take them away with you. Nothing to lose.
    Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth :)

  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    It's important to supply adequate photos of your rose - in the garden.. which means a close up of the bush and a distance shot, we need to see the foliage, thorns and shape of the plant.  You say it's very fragrant, what type of scent? fruity, musky?  all these things help.  A few blooms stuck in a vase is not sufficient, sorry..

    However we can usually whittle things down quite a bit, as most people these days plant David Austin Roses, and two that could be considered are 'Golden Celebration' and 'Jude the Obscure', both meet the fragrance, flower form, scent and date of planting.. but the foliage is important to see.

    Here's a photo of 'Jude the Obscure', now I'm not saying it's this for sure, but you can see the similarity in just an odd bloom or two, and how difficult it is to i.d. without more information.


    East Anglia, England
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