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Ellen
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We mail order our bare-rooted roses in June, July and August to NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland, and cease dispatching on August 31st. Of course there is always a very wide selection growing in 20 cm pots available at the nursery throughout the year.
Advance Orders:
We take advance rose orders from October 31st onward each year. Following placement of your order, a confirmation will be sent by Honeysuckle Cottage.
Substitutions
If you wish to substitute for any roses that may have sold out please list some substitutes with your order. While some customers are requiring very specific varieties of roses, others may be completing a planting scheme and a very close match to a chosen rose would be acceptable. We are always happy to advise by email or phone (02) 4572 1345 (other than Wednesdays when the nursery is closed. if you wish to substitute or require advice on the selection of roses to suit your needs, climate, aspect and soil type.
All plants are sent by post. Our plants are carefully packaged by experienced packers, and we guarantee that roses leave us in good condition. However no responsibility will be taken for courier abuse or delay and should a problem occur in transit it should be immediately referred to the courier Australia Post whose responsibility it is We regret we cannot dispatch roses in pots, nor can we send bare rooted roses after August 31st.We give no warranty as to the growth of the roses as we cannot be responsible for factors which are beyond our control. Every effort is made to ensure plants are of the description and kind specified.
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Gertrude Jekyll
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Abraham Darby
This remains one of the finest of the English Roses bred by David Austin and has stood the test of time. It is a shrub rose to 1.3-1.5 m with a beautiful arching well-clothed form with shining clean deep green foliage. It flowers profusely and continuously throughout the season, in small clusters of large, luscious, very double saucer shaped blooms in a blending of soft rich apricot tones. It also holds very well as a cut flower.
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Claire Austin
Great white and cream roses are few and far between. It says everything that David Austin named this rose for his horticulturist daughter Claire. It is an impeccable and exquisitely old-fashioned rose. Plump lemon buds open slowly to large very double globular flowers with that delightful intense myrrh fragrance which David Austin specialises in, mixed with vanilla. The dense petals are exquisitely arranged in dense concentric circles. The arching shrub is hardy and healthy with mid-green foliage and is a prolific flowerer throughout the rose season. It grows to 1.5m (5 ft), and can also be grown as a short climber if wished
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Comtes de Champagne
This variety forms a very healthy bush to 1.0 m. While its constitution may be tough, the roses are all delicacy. They are semi-double, cupped, opening to a luminous golden yellow with golden stamens, then fading gently through several shades to soft primrose yellow. The massed effect is breathtaking. The flowers are borne in clusters and have a deliciously warm honey scent with a touch of myrrh. Those familiar with rose history will remember the Comte as the knight and troubadour Thibaut IV who returned from the Seventh Crusade in 1250 with what became known as 'The Rose of Provins' (the 'Apothecary's Rose' or 'Red Rose of Lancaster'). The rose simultaneously honoured Taittinger's finest champagne and its president M, Claude Taittinger who is a direct descendent of the Comte..
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Constance Spry
This was David Austin's earliest released rose. It blooms only once a year, but with heart breaking beauty and for several precious weeks, so that it remains one of the most romantic of all roses. Every bloom is a huge bowl filled with ethereal, luminous, clear pink petals and the most delightful myrrh fragrance. It was bred from a cross between the old Alba rose 'Belle Amour' and the charming 'Dainty Maid'. While it is usually grown as a shrub it also makes a delightful shorter climber fanned across a wall or trellis, or trained over an arbour (medieval style with an enclosed seat and cushions would be total perfection).
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Darcey Bussell
Named to honour the great ballerina who was appointed Principal Dancer of the Royal Ballet Company when just 20 and has been highly honoured world wide, this rose is a just tribute. We have been absolutely delighted with this rose. The very double flowers are exquisitely formed, the outer petals making a nearly perfect circle and when fully open they resemble a perfect Gallica rose. The colour is the richest, deepest red and the blooms have a fresh fruit and herbal fragrance. The bush is exceptionally healthy and grows to around 90 cm.
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Ellen
This is one of Judyth's favourite David Austin roses, an older one released in 1984, with flowers like huge bowls of petals in a delicate luminous mix of apricot shadings and filled with fragrance. It forms an excellent strong shrub to 1.3 m and loves Australian conditions.
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Evelyn
Often rated in the top ten David Austin roses, Evelyn was named in honour of Crabtree and Evelyn who released a range of toiletries based on the glorious old world fragrance of this rose. Evelyn makes a substantial shrub (which can also be used as a short climber), flowering prolifically and continuously through the rose season with very double, large, cupped blooms which pass through a delicious range of delicate colourings from peach to apricot to buff-apricot. The fragrance is simply stunning.
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Gertrude Jekyll
This RHS award winning rose included the gorgeous 1860 Portland rose 'Comte de Chambord' among its ancestors and was named for the famous and very influential Edwardian English landscape designer who did much to popularise the cottage garden style. The buds have an exquisitely scrolled form and open to large, glowing, rich pink, fully double blooms of old fashioned form that have the strongest and most delightful old rose fragrance. As David Austin noted, it is "often described as being the quintessential old rose fragrance." The shrub is very robust and reliable, upright growing to around 1.5 m, and free flowering.
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Golden Celebration
This is a superb award winning medium shrub rose which produces an abundance throughout the season of huge, double, richly golden, cupped flowers, each filled with delicious Tea rose fragrance which, as David's highly perceptive nose detected, develops into "a wonderful combination of sauterne wine and strawberry". This is one of the most luscious shrub roses in the world and it has won awards both for fragrance and as a shrub Rose.
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Grace
This is a charming heart-warming rose. The abundant very double flowers open slowly from a cupped shape to perfect rosettes and are shaded from a rich, glowing, soft apricot in the centre to pale apricot at the edges. They are filled with an intense warm summery delicious fragrance. The well-shaped shrub gros to around 1.2-1.4 m, is very healthy and very free flowering through the rose season. Grace is also an excellent cutting rose.
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Graham Thomas
Named for the famous English rosarian, horticulturist, author of several books on garden plants, and botanical artist, this rose is a fitting tribute and in a class of its own, causing a sensation at the Chelsea Flower Show. It is a remarkably elegant vigorous upright shrub to around 1.4 m with almost thornless arching flexible stems. The large, double, purest golden yellow flowers are cup shaped and filled with a delicious cool Tea Rose fragrance. The foliage is a shiny light green and disease resistant It has won awards past mentioning and has been voted the World's Favourite Rose by the World Federation of Rose Societies. In 2009 it was inducted into the society's Hall of Fame. It is also a beautiful cutting rose.
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Heritage
Romantic 'Heritage' rose is one of the favourite David Austin roses in Australia where it grows very easily and to perfection It makes an upright, well-rounded, very healthy. and almost thornless shrub to around 1.3-1.5 m, and is a remarkably floriferous variety bearing charming medium sized pure blush pink blooms of perfect old fashioned cupped form. It is very fragrant, a mixture of fresh citrus, sweet rose, honey and a dash of carnation. Mmmm! Each petal is like a perfect pink shell. The earlier flowers of the season are very large while big sprays of slightly smaller blooms celebrate autumn. The foliage is dark green, glossy and disease resistant.
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Jude The Obscure
This is a lovely deep yellow rose shaded with apricot and one of the most fragrant. The blooms are large, very double, chalice shaped to globular, and look as if they have just emerged from a 19th century painting. The fragrance is intoxicating, a blend of candied citrus, honey, sauterne and vanilla. It is a strong vigorous grower, healthy and disease free. It makes a wonderful shrub. If you are looking for a golden rose to grow along a fence, this would be excellent. Just tie the canes along the fence and they will flower repeatedly along their length. The rose was named for Thomas Hardy's last novel.
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Lady of Megginch
A luscious rose with every virtue. It officially reaches 1.2 m but in our climate it is likely to grow to 1.5 m, and it makes a spectacular focal point in a garden. As a shrub it is hardy and disease resistant with lush glossy foliage . It is virtually never out of flower during the season with large, very double, saucer-shaped, rich rose pink flowers with a delicious raspberry and old rose fragrance.
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Lichfield Angel
Released in 2009, this gorgeous variety makes a stylish, healthy, rounded shrub to 1.2 m. and flowers profusely through the rose season. The very double old-fashioned blooms begin globular in shape before opening to a perfect old-fashioned saucer shape and they begin in the softest light apricot before turning through lemon sorbet to rich clotted cream and finally to frosted lemon. The fragrance is light and sweet with a touch of clove spice. This is a wonderful rose for cutting and is hardy. For those who wondered about the name, it was was bestowed in honour of a recently discovered 8th century limestone panel in Lichfield Cathedral.
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Mary Rose
Named to celebrate the recovery of Henry VIII's flagship in 1983 after it had lain for 400 years below the Solent, this variety is utterly charming, very floriferous and rarely out of flower. The deeply fragrant blooms, borne in small clusters, are large and full petalled, opening cupped then expanding to saucer shaped. The fragrance is of Old Rose that is deliciously and extraordinarily mixed with almond blossom and sweet honey. The colouring is a soft shade of deep rose pink. The shrub is hardy, resilient, well clothed with disease resistant foliage, and grows to 1.2-1.4 m. .
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Mayor of Casterbridge
A lovely, very repeat flowering and floriferous rose with very full, perfectly formed blooms that resemble its parent, the famous 'Louise Odier'. Borne in small clusters, the blooms are a soft clear mid-pink with a light sweet Old Rose and fruit scent. It forms a vigorous healthy upright shrub to 1.5 m and can also be used as a short climber to 1,8 m.
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Molineux
The colour of this very double multi-award winning variety is just so rich, a deep golden yellow, and it won the coveted Henry Edland medal for the 'Best Scented Rose' at the Royal National Rose Society Trials with its delicious strong Tea Rose fragrance. We find it often has a hint of apricot in its depths in the early stages of opening. To add to its many desirable characteristics, the upright bush flowers very heavily and repeat flowers throughout the season, grows to around 1.0m or a little more, and has very good disease resistance. We know of no other rose with quite this colouring.
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Pat Austin
This is one of those spectacular roses that turn heads. The flowers are large to very large, globular then deeply cupped, and in an amazing luminous and mutable blend of rich apricot and copper, while the petal reverses are a pale copper yellow. This combination of colouring is of great rarity and reminiscent of the old Austrian Copper Rose or Capucine Rose R. foetida bicolor. The scent is a warm sensuous variation on Tea Rose. This rose was a wonderful tribute to David Austin's wife. The shrub is a strong healthy grower to 1,2-1.4 m.
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Princess Alexandra of Kent
This glory of a rose was a sensation at the Chelsea Flower Show. The huge, very double, warm and glowing pink, cupped flowers have slightly lighter outer petals and are filled, as David Austin unerringly described, with "a delicious fresh Tea fragrance which, interestingly, changes completely to lemon as the flower ages - eventually taking on hints of blackberry". These huge bowls of roses are each held strongly on a neat bush that glows with health and grows to around 1.2 m. It was named for Princess Alexandra of Kent, the youngest granddaughter of King George V and the daughter of Prince George of Kent who was killed on active service in WW II and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark . Princess Alexandra dazzled and charmed Australians during her 1960s visit and was the Princess Diana of her day. She has carried out royal duties on behalf of her cousin Queen Elizabeth since the 1950s. .
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Radio Times
A prolific flowerer throughout the rose season, this variety has formal, old-fashioned, rosette shaped roses in a bright, glowing mid pink, and they hold beautifully on the bush. The fragrance is richly Old Rose. The neat bush is short to 90-100 cm, well clothed with disease resistant foliage, and perfect for a smaller garden, a large container, or a mixed border.
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Redoute
Named for the great painter of flowers, particularly of roses, who was commissioned by the Empress Josephine to paint the then world's largest rose collection in the gardens of her chateau Malmaison near Paris. This truly lovely rose is a well deserved tribute to the great artist. It flowers abundantly and continuously to the end of autumn, and is one of the earliest to flower in spring. The blooms, borne in small clusters, are large, cupped, very double, and an exquisite light pink. The delightful fragrance is so sweet, a mixture of Old Rose, honey and almond. It makes a medium sized, bushy, healthy and hardy shrub to around 1.2 m.
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Sharifa Asma
This is without doubt one of the most romantic and beautiful roses in existence. The full-petalled cupped blooms are of exquisite delicacy in palest cream blushed from the centre outward, paling to the faintest blushed pale cream in the outermost petals. There is a golden glow deep in its innermost heart. The fragrance is a seductive mixture of Old Rose and myrrh. It makes a very healthy strong shrub to approximately 1.4 m, is never without flower in our experience and flowers from spring into early winter. In addition it makes a very good as a cutting rose. It was bred from the David Austin roses 'Mary Rose' and 'Admired Miranda'
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Sir Walter Raleigh
This luscious creation would have looked perfect on romantic Edwardian picture hats. The warm pink blooms are huge, double, cupped, airy and silken, and deliciously fragrant. It flowers abundantly and repeatedly throughout the season.. It has large very healthy foliage and makes a strong well shaped shrub to around 1.4m, and has been compared to a Tree Paeony in its garden impact..
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Skylark
Simply delightful, this is the perfect bush rose for small gardens, or to grow in a large container, or among perennials. It smothers in old-fashioned, semi-double, cupped to globular small blooms which open a glowing deep pink and age to lilac pink creating the effect of an old-fashioned tapestry. The sweet scent is a mixture of apple pie and Tea Rose with a hint of sweet musk. It grows to 90 cm high and 50 cm wide.
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St. Swithun
Positively gorgeous! This hardy variety growing to 1.4 to 1.5 m is used both as a shrub and as a low climber. The large very fragrant blooms are cupped and filled with lightly frilled soft pink petals which frost toward the edges of the flowers. The foliage is large, handsome and disease resistant. It was named in honour of St. Swithun, the 9th century bishop of Winchester who became the patron saint of the cathedral, and to celebrate Winchester Cathedral's 900th anniversary.
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Strawberry Hill
This luscious rose release won a Prix d'Honneur for fragrance in 2007. It is a taller grower to 1.5-1.8 m with cascading branches which makes it perfect for use as a specimen planting, as a background shrub for a border, or as a short climber. With its graceful form, it should not be pruned back to conform to a particular shape. The abundant very double old-fashioned cupped blooms are a gentle rose pink and spill forth an intense fruity fragrance. The foliage is glossy, deep green and healthy.
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Summer Song
We can think of no other rose which glows with such luminous intense colour. In form it might have stepped out of a Redoute painting with its huge globular very double flowers opening to old-fashioned saucer shaped blooms. But the colour! How was such an incredible unfading sun-burned orange conceived in England? Yet the colour is not at all harsh, but instead delicate and rich, and the strong fragrance is extraordinary - a fruit salad of mango, peach, banana and pineapple. 'Pat Austin', 'Evelyn' and Ellen would blend delightfully with it, picking up the paler complementary hues.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Deep, dark and delicious as was Tess herself, the big, very double, flowers open cupped and a bright deep crimson. full of the rich Old Rose fragrance. The flowers are borne prolifically on a robust bush with deepest green foliage and it repeat flowers throughout the season. It is used both as shrub to around 1,4 m or a apectacular short climber trained to 1.8 - 2.2 m. This rose is named for the heroine of Thomas Hardy's second last (and originally censored) books. 'Jude the Obscure' was his last novel. .
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The Alnwick Rose
Launched at The Chelsea Flower Show, this easy to grow variety has rich bright medium pink blooms that resemble a Centifolia rose with its many petalled, deeply cupped, perfect conformation. Fully opened the blooms form a wide saucer shape.. The fragrance is delightful, a rich mixture of true Old Rose and fresh raspberries. The well formed, medium sized, hardy and healthy shrub repeatedly flushes with abundant flowers until the onset of winter, and the blooms are complemented by excellent shiny foliage.
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The Dark Lady
This is a very large flowered rose which has reminded many of a Chinese double paeony rose, packed with loosely arranged deep crimson petals and elegantly nodding. The fragrance is sweet and light, of Old Rose. Over time it becomes a substantial larger bush to 1.5 m in our climate and is ruggedly healthy. The excellent plentiful foliage reflects its Rugosa parent. This lovely creature was named for Shakespeare's Dark Lady from his sonnet.
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The Pilgrim
Strong healthy pure yellow roses are few and far between - the yellow pigment originating from the Persian Yellow rose came at a high price for rose breeders - a susceptibility to balckspot. This variety shows none of the problems associated with the colouring, It is hardy and displays very healthy strong growth that is resistant to fungal diseases, making an upright growing shrub to around 1.2-1.4 m high. The blooms are very double, medium sized and borne in small clusters. They are in the softest pure lemon-and-sunshine yellow, frosting toward the edges, and totally charming. There is none of that difficult-to-place harsh brilliant yellow of modern roses. The fragrance is delightful, of classic Tea Rose mingled with the famous myrrh scent. It was bred from the great rose 'Graham Thomas', and named for Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'. It is stunning in flower arrangements.
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William Morris
This is one of the most recent of the David Austin Roses and can be used as a spectacular, slightly arching, exceptionally healthy, hardy, and reliable shrub at the back of a border or alternatively as a short climber. It reaches 1.5 m in cooler areas and up to 1.8 m in warm climates and is rarely out of flower during the rose season.. The prolific large blooms are very double, of perfect rosette form, and in the softest luminous apricot-pink. The fragrance is strong and delicious - imagine Tea Rose and fruit salad. It was named for the multi-gifted 19th century great designer (particularly of fabrics and wallpapers), artist, and writer William Morris who was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In partnership with Dante Gabriel Rossetii and the artist Edward Burne-Jones, he was immensely influential in interior decoration of both domestic residences and churches. This rose would have been much to his taste.
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William Shakespeare
We know of no rose that more closely resembles the old Gallica roses, or which dries whole to such perfection for use in pot pourri and craft work. The very abundant very double blooms each with around 120 petals form a perfect quartered rosette in velvety shades of deepest plush crimson and are filled with warm, rich Old Rose fragrance. As they age, like Gallica roses from which this variety is descended, they pass through luscious deep grape shadings. If you have fairies in your garden, this is certainly where they will rest at night. The bush is hardy, very disease resistant, almost never out of flower except in winter, and has a neat growth habit to around 1.2 m.
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Winchester Cathedral
This sport of the famed 'Mary Rose' is quite simply exquisite, comparable only to the 'Centifolia Alba' rose ('Unique Blanche') in its ethereal beauty, and even shared that rose's blushed pink buds. But unlike the 18th century rose it is rarely out of flower. It blooms profusely and tirelessly with large double white blooms of old-fashioned form, sometimes with a faint touch of buff in the heart. The fragrance is a delicious strong mixture of Old Rose, almond blossom and sweet honey. This is simply one of the finest white roses in existence. Expect it to make a shrub up to 1.4 m, to be one of the first roses to bloom each year, and for it to bloom on until winter descends.
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Windermere
In that rarest and most coveted of shades, a rich cream aging to palest cream, sometimes with a hint of apricot in the heart, this is a very special rose. The masses of delightfully plump buds borne in small clusters open to very double, cupped blooms with a delicious fruit-and-citrus fragrance. 'Windermere' is early to flower and is one of the last to yield to winter. The shrub is a compact grower to a metre high, just right for small gardens.
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