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Old World-Heirloom and David Austin English roses are the ones I mostly grow. Click on the links at the bottom of the page for my world of roses grown on several plots at our homestead. Pictures were taken with a Minolta Z-1digital camera in late spring when the blooms are at their finest. Also check out the Heirloom Rose Links at My Favorite Links on the Home Page.
David Austin Official Web Site http://www.davidaustinroses.com/
David Austin Roses From Jackson&Perkins Catalog - "Famed for their delicate form and old rose essences, David Austin English roses bring a timeless quality to the modern garden. Their unique beauty and fragrance, strong growth and repeated blooms result from a careful crossing of old roses with modern hybrid teas and floribundas."
From Heritage Old Garden Roses - "David Austin's English Roses are bred by crossing Old Garden roses with more modern roses to achieve the superb fragrance, delicacy and charm of the old style blooms combined with the repeat flowering characteristics and wide color range of Modern Roses. David Austin has recaptured the romance and poetry of the old roses."
Heirloom - Old World Roses
"Gardeners are asking themselves, if the Hybrid Teas are a class of roses with barely one hundred years of history, what came before? the answer is, quite simply, Old Roses. Gardeners today can partake of this extravagant inheritance and experiment with the same truly ancient roses that once graced Empress Josephine's garden outside Paris or President Jefferson's beloved Virginia plantation. We can plant a rose that grew in a medieval monastery, enjoy roses that Shakespeare immortalized, and experience the seductive perfume of a rose that Romans harvested for religious festivals solemnized in temples on the Seven Hills. .. Each season, more nurseries are discovering taht the demand for Old Roses is not just a fad, the gardening public is actively seeking out and planting them.... Never in our lifetime have there been as many Old Roses available to the public as there are right now. " Clair Martin - 100 Old Roses for the American Garden.
Recommended Reference Books
Smith & Hawken 100 English Roses for the American Garden Clair G. Martin Workman Publishing Press NY 1997
Smith & Hawken 100 Old World Roses for the American Garden Clair G. Martin Workman Publishing Press NY 1999
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