We are hugely proud to announce that we have been awarded a Gold Medal at Chelsea Flower Show 2022. It is a delight to have returned to the show this year and secured our 26th gold medal.
At this year’s
#ChelseaFlowerShow
we would have been officially releasing our new 2020 varieties including Silas Marner. As we can’t do so this year, we’re giving one of you the chance to win one for your garden. Simply retweet to enter!
#FreebieFriday
#WIN
a Lady of Shalott bare root
#rose
. This is a stunning orange rose with chalice-shaped blooms and a pleasant, warm Tea fragrance, with hints of spiced apple and cloves. Simply retweet and follow us to enter.
#FreebieFriday
#WIN
a Gertrude Jekyll
#rose
for your garden.
Gertrude Jekyll is one of our most-loved roses for its unforgettable bright pink blooms and beautifully strong Old Rose scent.
Simply retweet to enter!
#FreebieFriday
In celebration of this year’s virtual
#RHSHamptonCourtWeek
, we’re giving one of your the chance to win a Roald Dahl Rose for your garden. Simply retweet to enter.
#FreebieFriday
To celebrate the start of bare root season, we’re giving one of your the chance to
#win
a bare root 'The Lark Ascending' Rose to add to your garden. Simply follow us and retweet to enter.
#FreebieFriday
There is something very special about white
#roses
. They bring a sense of calm and tenderness to your
#garden
.
Can you guess the name of this beautiful white rose?
Continuing the news of our awards from this year's National Rose Trial Garden of
#Australia
. Est.1996, we are pleased to announce Roald Dahl won
#silver
in the Irwin Award for ‘Most Pest and Disease Resistant Rose’
#RoseAwards
Olivia Rose Austin is an outstanding variety with an exceptionally long flowering season. To celebrate this much-loved rose we are giving one of you the chance to win one. Simply retweet to enter.
#FreebieFriday
#Win
your very own
#CharlesDarwin
rose, loved by many of you for its gorgeous scent. Wavering between soft floral Tea and pure lemon, this delicious fragrance fills your garden. Perfect at times like these. Simply RT and follow us to win. Ts and cs apply.
#FreebieFriday
Wishing you all a very happy start to
#August
and a wonderful weekend.
What are your gardening plans for the
#weekend
? We’d love to know!
#HelloAugust
Rose blooms dusted in frost are a reminder of the intricate beauty of nature through all seasons.
Our English Roses have been bred to be as equally hardy as they are beautiful, making them tolerant of wintery conditions without much fuss.
Princess Alexandra of Kent is a wonderful variety with magnificent blooms and a delicious, award-winning fragrance. Today, we’re giving one of you the chance to win one for your garden! Simply retweet to enter.
#FreebieFriday
Beautiful, little, rosette-shaped
#flowers
are held in large open sprays, with an unbeatable strong, musk fragrance and can grow up to 40ft. Do you know the name of the wonderful rambling
#rose
?
Another day of rain here in
#Shropshire
. Our resident peacock is not impressed. Although it is great for the
#gardens
, we are keeping our fingers crossed for a
#sunny
weekend.
Wollerton Old Hall is one of our most fragrant English climbing
#roses
- its strong, warm myrrh fragrance has intense hints of citrus, offering the warmest of welcomes when grown around your front door.
Do you have this variety in your
#garden
?
Featuring on
@GWandShows
right now is Queen of Sweden. It’s exquisite little buds open to half-enclosed cups, eventually becoming wide, shallow, upward-facing cups of pleasing formality. The colour begins as soft-apricot pink, gradually changing to pure soft pink over time.
One of our favourite parts of attending shows such as
#RHSHamptonCourtShow
, is getting to talk to fellow
#rose
lovers and introducing our new varieties.
This year, we would have introduced Silas Marner and The Country Parson. Do you have either of these in your
#garden
?
Looking to brighten up a shady area in your
#garden
or on your balcony? We have a selection of charming
#roses
perfect for adding a splash of
#colour
. Some of our favourites include Eustacia Vye, Kew Gardens and Charles Darwin.
We love seeing photographs of your
#roses
in bloom throughout the season. As we are well into the first flush, share with us your
#RoseOfTheSeason
for us to share!
New to bloom in the
#gardens
this week is Wollerton Old Hall, one of our most famous fragrant
#EnglishRoses
.
Hi
@TheMontyDon
, we are so sorry to hear the passing of Nigel. He was loved by us all and will be greatly missed. We would love to send you a rose to plant in his memory. Best wishes to you all.
I am very sorry to announce that Nigel has died.
He slipped quietly away with no pain or suffering and is now buried in the garden with lots of tennis balls.
Rest now old friend. See you in the sweet bye and bye.”
#Win
your very own
#TheCountryParson
rose, loved by many since its release earlier this year for its fully open, medium-large, almost flat rosettes of pure yellow. Simply RT and follow us to win. Ts and cs apply.
#FreebieFriday
Beautiful, little, rosette-shaped flowers are held in large open sprays, with an unbeatable strong, musk fragrance and can grow up to 40ft. Do you know the name of the wonderful rambling rose?
Lady of Shalott is a striking
#rose
with beautiful chalice-shaped
#blooms
. It has a pleasant, warm Tea
#fragrance
, with hints of spiced apple and cloves.
Do you have this rose in your collection?
Boscobel is one of our most-loved pink
#roses
.
It features the most beautiful myrrh fragrance with delicious hints of hawthorn, elderflower, pear and almond.
Do you have this delightful variety in your
#garden
?
So lovely to see our very own Gertrude Jekyll
#rose
on this weekend’s
@GWandShows
in Christine’s beautiful garden.
Always one of the first
#EnglishRoses
to start flowering, its perfect scrolled buds open to large, rosette-shaped flowers of bright glowing pink.
#GardenersWorld
As the Platinum Jubilee celebrations draw to a close, we want to say a royal congratulations to Britain’s longest reigning monarch, Her Majesty The Queen.
Once happily established,
#roses
are a real source of pleasure, bringing colour and fragrance to your
#garden
year after year.
Which rose is next on your list?
Here is Silas Marner, released this year.
Wisley 2008 is a sweet, pink
#rose
.
The perfect rosette
#flowers
are shallowly cupped and are a pure-light pink, with the outer petals paling prettily towards the edges.
Do you have this variety in your
#garden
?
A little distraction for us all, we thought it would be a nice idea to share our favourite photos of roses.
Here’s Princess Alexandra of Kent looking glorious in a terracotta pot.
Tweet us yours!
Planting roses in shady positions is a great way of adding colour and interest to forgotten areas of the garden. Here are some of our recommended roses which can thrive with only 4 hours of sun each day.
Good morning from our resident peacock, left to his own devices, roaming our Shropshire Gardens in peace during lockdown.
Here he is just outside Mr A’s house.
It can be great fun getting out into your
#garden
this time of year and mixing up your garden beds or borders. An easy way to do this is to combine
#roses
with a selection of companion
#plants
in varying tones.
Discover more online here:
Gertrude Jekyll is a beautiful rose loved for both its beautiful pink blooms and quintessential Old Rose fragrance.
Do you have this fragrant variety in your garden? If so, tweet us your photos as we’d love to see!
Fabulously fragrant and glowing with colour Eustacia Vye is happy, healthy and can tolerate a little shade - perfect for adding a splash of colour and fun to a shady spot in the garden.
The Lady of the Lake looking particularly beautiful in the
#gardens
today.
It has pretty, semi-double
#flowers
, held in sprays on long, slender and flexible stems, with a fresh citrus fragrance.
Today marks the 75th
#NHSbirthday
, which is the perfect time to place the spotlight on the wonderful Nye Bevan.
Released in 2021 in honour of the founder of Britain’s National Health Service, this reliable shrub rose is uplifting and illuminating in equal measure.
#rosewednesday
Welcome to our fresh new
#rose
varieties for 2020 – ‘The Country Parson’ and ‘Silas Marner’. We’ll be telling you more about these elegant additions soon, but at first glance, which is your favourite?
Looking to create a beautiful rose hedge in your
#garden
? We’ve put together our best
#roses
for creating the perfect hedge.
Shop our hedge bundles here:
Photographed here is Lady of Shalott.
Named to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the consecration of Winchester Cathedral, this is our St. Swithun rose. It is a short, vigorous climber bearing large, saucer-like blooms, each packed with over one hundred frilly petals.
#StSwithunsDay
Wishing a very Happy Birthday to HM Queen Elizabeth II.
Here are some photos of David Austin Snr and David Austin Jnr welcoming Queen Elizabeth II to our Chelsea Flower Show Garden in 2018.
Today is
#WorldPhotoDay
and we want to see your best photos of our roses.
Tweet us yours and we’ll share our favourites!
Photographed here is The Country Parson.
Many of you have tweeted us to share the new
#rose
varieties you have added to your garden this summer.
We would love to know which rose is your favourite new addition to your
#garden
.
This week is
#GardensAndHealthWeek
, created by
@NGSOpenGardens
to raise awareness of the physical and mental health benefits of gardens and gardening.
We are proud to be supporting them with £2.50 from the sale of each Generous Gardener Rose being donated to them this year.
We’re celebrating
#WorldKindnessDay
by giving you the chance to
#win
a rose of your choice. To enter we’d love to know what your favourite rose variety is. Ts and Cs apply:
Photographed here is ‘The Mayflower’ perfect for mixed borders and shady hedges.
Princess Alexandra of Kent in beautiful
#bloom
.
The unusually large, bright pink
#flowers
are full-petalled and deeply cupped. In spite of their size, they are never clumsy, being held nicely poised on a well-rounded
#shrub
.
#GoodMorning
from our Shropshire gardens. The
#sun
is shining and the skies are blue, the perfect day for a spot of
#gardening
. Let us know what your gardening plans are for today!
Are you team Gabriel Oak (Auscrowd) or Eustacia Vye (Ausegdon)?
You'll find both of these equally sensational varieties in our best for fragrance category, sharing a powerful and delicious fruity scent that's as striking as their colour.
#englishroses
#rosewednesday
Stop and smell the roses, it's proven to boost your mood and trigger the release of endorphins, helping you to feel uplifted and relaxed. So why not treat yourself to a highly scented variety such as Claire Austin (Ausprior)?
So wonderful to see Dame Judi Dench on the cover of
@BritishVogue
this month. A true inspiration, and one of Britain’s most beloved stars of stage and screen, one we named a rose after.
Here is Silas Marner, a rose variety we released last year. But, we want to know if you were to breed your own rose, what colour would it be? And what scent would it have?
#RoseGarden
#DavidAustinRoses
Wishing you all a happy Easter Sunday.
On this day, we can't help but think of our favourite yellow roses, including our newest variety, Nye Bevan.
Be sure to share photos of your favourite signs of Easter, whether it's yellow roses, daffodils or chicks, we'd love to see!
We are pleased to say our new variety, Nye Bevan (Auspital) is now available to pre-order for delivery in May. UK only.
To find out more about this variety and to order, click here:
We hope everyone at
@WynyardHall
had a wonderful day
#celebrating
the Wynard Hall Gardens 5th birthday.
If you haven't visited the
#gardens
at Wynard Hall yet, we recommend you do so. Explore the Walled Garden and discover 3,000 David Austin
#roses
bursting with colour.
Rosa Iceberg in beautiful
#bloom
.
This is a quick growing variety that produces large clusters of medium-sized, lightly double, white
#flowers
, sometimes tinged with pink. The scent is wonderfully light and sweet.
Lady of Shalott and Roald Dahl are two beautiful
#roses
, but we want to know which is your favourite?
Love them both? Take a look at our blog post to find out how to mix them into your garden border this
#autumn
.
We are very excited to be seeing more and more of our roses blooming this month. Have your roses come into flower yet? If so, tweet us a photo as we’d love to see!
Here we have St. Swithun flourishing in the sunshine.
Introducing ‘Silas Marner’: An unfussy rose of soft mid pink, the petals are pale on the reverse and fade at the edges creating a gentle quality. Held on red stems, the medium-sized cupped blooms have relaxed, almost ruffled petals which are set around an attractive button eye.
Getting out and about into your garden and taking in the sights, sounds and smells of nature can help to calm and improve your mental wellbeing.
#WorldWellbeingWeek
In just a few weeks time, you may start to notice the first scatterings of cheerful daffodils erupting into colour 🌼
Capture the same joyous feeling this summer, by injecting splashes of yellow into your garden. Here's four contagiously joyful yellow roses that we recommend.
We are very pleased to announce that rosa Olivia Rose Austin won
#gold
plus two trophies at this year's National Rose Trial Garden of
#Australia
. Est.1996.
The awards included Australia’s Rose of the Year & Marion de Bohme Memorial Award for Best Rose of Trial.
#RoseOfTheYear
We are very excited to announce our two new varieties arriving in the USA this spring, Eustacia Vye and Gabriel Oak.
From first glance, will you be adding any of these two varieties to your garden?
#NewRoses
#DavidAustinRoses
Can you guess the name of this
#rose
?
This is an exceedingly pretty variety with soft, glowing apricot-pink
#blooms
, with a deliciously strong fruity fragrance.
Today we would like to wish the late
#GertrudeJekyll
a very happy birthday. To celebrate, we’ve taken a closer look at our much-loved rose named after Gertrude.
Read the article here:
When choosing
#roses
, we believe it is often as important to select varieties for their
#fragrance
as it is for their
#beauty
.
One of our favourites is Princess Alexandra of Kent for its beautifully strong tea fragrance that lingers in the midsummer air. Do you have a favourite?
Wollerton Old Hall is one of our most fragrant English climbing roses - its strong, warm myrrh fragrance has intense hints of citrus, offering the warmest of welcomes when grown around your front door.
Do you have this variety in your garden?
A beautiful photo of The Lady Gardener in bloom.
This rose has a beautiful shade of pure apricot, paling towards the edges. There is a lovely Tea fragrance, with hints of cedar wood and vanilla.
A truly fragrant favourite, and always one of the first to bloom. On a warm summers day, the Old Rose fragrance of Gertrude Jekyll (Ausbord) can often be detected long before you lay eyes on the large, strikingly pink blooms.
#rosewednesday
One of our most asked questions is, which roses have the strongest fragrance? Our top recommendations would include Eustacia Vye, The Poet's Wife and Gertrude Jekyll. Do you have a favourite rose for its enchanting scent?
A fantastic photo of our Head Gardener Steve busy in the gardens this
#summer
.
Even though the
#gardens
have been closed, Steve has been ever so busy maintaining the beauty of our
#roses
.
Good morning
A photo to lose yourself in for a Sunday morning
@DAustinRoses
we have garden envy - what a stunning scene, all kept looking beautiful with a little help from our tripod ladder & wheelbarrow - Steve also has a hi-step!
#roses
#staysafe
#gardening
One of the most vibrant roses in our collection, the deep pink tones of James L. Austin (Auspike) are instantly recognisable, set off beautifully by its dark green foliage.
#rosewednesday
Good morning and happy 1st of
#June
! Today marks the start of
#NationalRoseMonth
and we can't wait to share with you our favourite roses of the season. We're starting the month with The Lady of the Lake, a very healthy and floriferous rambler, bearing sprays of pretty flowers.
Our orange and apricot roses are some of our most-loved, due to the beautiful depth of colour they add to any garden.
Here we have Dame Judi Dench and Roald Dahl, which is your favourite?
An exceptionally beautiful rose with distinctive neat blooms, Emily Brontë has a strong, long-lasting fragrance of tea, eventually becoming more Old Rose with delicious hints of lemon and grapefruit.
#NationalTeaDay
Can you guess the name of this rose?
Extremely floriferous, this rose has soft pink, semi-double flowers held in large open sprays and has the most wonderful musky, Old Rose scent.
Are you looking to add some pink
#roses
to your garden this
#autumn
?
Here are some of our top recommendations: Olivia Rose Austin, Silas Marner, Queen of Sweden and Hyde Hall.
#AutumnGardening
Not only does the physical activity of gardening help to keep us fit and connected to nature, but it can help the mind too. Getting out and about in the garden and taking in the sights, sounds and smells can help to calm and improve your mental wellbeing.
#MentalHealthWeek