Roses Ideal For...

We've curated a selection of roses that will thrive where planted in your garden. Get inspired to add some beautiful blooms to your garden.

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David Austin Roses

With its giant, rich yellow blooms, Golden Celebration (Ausgold) not only brings a vibrant splash of colour but also radiates a wonderfully strong Tea fragrance with delightful notes of Sauternes wine and strawberry.

David Austin English shrub rose 'Scarborough Fair' - A very pretty rose which is very tough, healthy and reliable.

Roses Ideal for Attracting the Bees

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Purple -magenta rambling rose 'Veilchenblau' - Clusters of fragrant flowers, which are a beautiful an unusual mix of colours.

White climbing rose 'Iceberg' romping away and filling the available space. Very floriferous throughout season.

David Austin English climbing rose 'The Pilgrim' creating a vibrant focal point - Clothed in blooms throughout the summer and into autumn.

Roses Ideal for Adding Height

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This variety has particularly beautiful blooms. The buds open to reveal many petalled cups, which gradually form large, flat rosettes. The colour is a very attractive shade of soft yellow, the petals paling prettily towards the edges. The flowers have a medium strength fragrance, which is a perfect balance of Tea and myrrh. It will quickly reach some height and still produce flowers and leaves lower down the plant.

They are held in large clusters against dark, shiny foliage. It starts to flower around midsummer, continuing into September. The long, flexible growth makes it easy to train.

A repeat-flowering rambler; it bears unusual, very attractive flowers of soft salmon-pink, fading to light pink. They are medium-sized and very full, the quill shaped petals radiating out from a button eye. There is a strong apple scent with a hint of chrysanthemum. Its graceful lax growth is easy to train.

Roses Ideal for Front of House

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This exquisite rose produces an abundance of large, many-petalled blooms on a bushy, upright shrub. The flowers open to a soft mid-pink hue at the centre, delicately transitioning towards the edges, ultimately revealing a mesmerising cluster of golden stamens.

David Austin English shrub rose 'Desdemona' - Exquisitely beautiful, strongly fragrant blooms.

Roses Ideal for Pots & Containers

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Peachy pink buds open to beautiful, white, chalice-shaped blooms, with a pinkish hue. The incurved petals create an arresting interplay of light and shadow. The strong Old Rose fragrance has hints of almond blossom, cucumber and lemon zest. It forms a most attractive neat, rounded, bushy shrub.

Our UK Plant Centre is a little different from most others. We attract visitors from all around the world, many of whom travel thousands of miles to visit the home of the English Roses. We aim to make sure that all gardeners and rose lovers will enjoy their visit, from complete beginners to the most experienced. Expert staff are always on hand to help and advise visitors in any way they require.

Pale peachy pink buds gradually open to form neatly cupped, cream rosettes. Each bloom has a perfect ring of waxy petals enclosing numerous smaller petals. Eventually the petals turn back to form a large, domed flower. It forms a vigorous, rounded, almost thornless shrub, its blooms nodding attractively on the branch.

Roses Ideal for Mixed Borders

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The beautiful blooms of Vanessa Bell (Auseasel) are pale yellow, paling to white at the edges, each with a rich yellow eye. Enjoy their unique fragrance, a delightful blend of green tea, lemon, and honey. Perfect for forming a bushy, upright shrub in your garden.

Transform a simple wall or large fence into a stunning border with a fragrant and blooming rambling rose, such as Paul's Himalayan Musk showcased here. Love this concept? Save it for later and share it with a friend.

Roses Ideal for Shady Areas

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Hydrangea And Rose Garden

Modern Rose Garden

Rose And Hydrangea Garden

Rose Garden Landscape

Rooting Roses

Creating a Rose hedge | Queen of Sweden (Austiger)

Transform your garden with a tapestry of beautiful roses knitted together to form a quintessentially English rose hedge. Blooming all summer through to the first frost, rose hedges are not only charming and fragrant but also create picturesque divisions and protective parameters. For added privacy, consider climbing roses to create beautiful, natural hedges and screens, for inspiration visit the blog on our website.

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Deadheading Roses

Large Hydrangea

Single Flowers

Royal Botanic Gardens

White Rose | Kew Gardens (Ausfence)

The beautiful Kew Gardens (Ausfence) English shrub rose was named in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London. Featuring small, single flowers in large, hydrangea-like heads, Kew Gardens blooms nearly continuously from early summer through autumn. Ideal for attracting bees, the healthy and almost thornless Kew Gardens is perfect for mixed borders, pots, containers, rose hedges, and shady areas. Its versatility makes it a striking addition to any garden.

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Climbing Rose In Container

Tree Roses In Containers

Golden Showers Climbing Rose

Sally Holmes Climbing Rose

Generous Gardener Climbing Rose

Food Plot

Garden Companion Planting

Roses for Pots and Containers | Dannahue (Ausa6b15)

Almost any rose can thrive happily in a pot if it has ample space to grow. Planting roses in pots and containers allows you to move them around your garden, enjoy their fragrant blooms on a balcony, or create a striking display by training a climbing rose around your front door or porch.

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Rose Container Gardening

Rose Container Garden

Drift Roses In Containers

Container Roses Garden

Landscaping With Roses

Roses for Pots and Containers | James L. Austin (Auspike)

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Standard Rose Garden Ideas

Rose In Container

Pelargonium Attar Of Roses

Best Roses

English Rose (windermere)

Roses for Pots and Containers | Kew Gardens (Ausfence)

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Roald Dahl (Ausowlish) | English Shrub Rose

As radiant as James’s Giant Peach. Like Dahl’s wondrous story, the Roald Dahl (Ausowlish) rose embodies whimsy and charm with its soft orange-red buds that open into medium-sized, apricot-cupped rosettes, mirroring the vibrant imagination found in the author's tales.

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Ronald Dahl

English Gardens

Soft Orange

Roald Dahl (Ausowlish) | English Shrub Rose

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Vanessa Bell (Auseasel) | English Shrub Rose

The beautiful blooms of Vanessa Bell (Auseasel) are pale yellow, paling to white at the edges, each with a rich yellow eye. Enjoy their unique fragrance, a delightful blend of green tea, lemon, and honey. Perfect for forming a bushy, upright shrub in your garden.

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Ancient Mariner (Ausoutcry) | English Shrub Rose

This exquisite rose produces an abundance of large, many-petalled blooms on a bushy, upright shrub. The flowers open to a soft mid-pink hue at the centre, delicately transitioning towards the edges, ultimately revealing a mesmerising cluster of golden stamens.

two yellow roses are blooming in the middle of some purple and yellow flowers with green leaves

Yellow Roses | Golden Celebration (Ausgold)

With its giant, rich yellow blooms, Golden Celebration (Ausgold) not only brings a vibrant splash of colour but also radiates a wonderfully strong Tea fragrance with delightful notes of Sauternes wine and strawberry.