![]() ![]() It starts flowering early and carries on very reliably until late in the year. The flowers start a very soft peachy pink but quickly turn white, and unlike many plants with white flowers, don’t turn into a nasty brown mess after rain. It is tricky finding good white roses, but ‘Desdemona’ is excellent. Photo: Michael Marriott/David Austin Roses The flowers are a rich apricot with a warm, tea-like fragrance, and the plant reaches about 1.5m when pruned as a shrub or 3m as a climber. It is seldom out of flower from June through to October or November. ‘Lady of Shalott’ is one of the best of the English Roses excellent for both the mixed border and as a climber. ![]() Like a number of David Austin’s English Roses, it can be grown as either a 1.5m shrub or a 3m climber, depending on how it is pruned and trained. This was introduced some years ago, but with the combination of beautiful flower and truly superb old rose fragrance, it is still a firm favourite. A very select list of some of the most gardenworthy roses begins with Rosa ‘Gertrude Jekyll’. When choosing roses, it is worth spending some time selecting the best varieties for that particular spot in the design and for that climate. Health is also enhanced by planting in mixed borders, although it is important that other plants are not allowed to creep around the bases of the roses. The health of roses used to be an issue, but breeders have made great advances and there are many varieties that are both beautiful and disease-free. Their value as fragrant plants is also legendary. Roses are an extremely variable and versatile group and there is a rose to fit just about every situation in the garden, from the wild to the very formal, from the traditional to the modern, and from the miniature to the gigantic. Times have changed, and people are again recognising what wonderful plants roses are for most parts of the garden. There was a time, not so long ago, when many garden designers thought roses mainly belonged in the formal rose garden. Michael Marriott suggests top roses for different garden needs and situations ‘The Generous Gardener’, a fragrant, repeat-flowering climber to 3-4m. ![]()
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