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Garden Designers and Landscapers
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We aim to offer a professional service to landscapers and garden designers. We are always delighted to share our knowledge of the English Roses and many other roses. We offer:
* Advice on selecting roses, planting and rose care
* A review of any planting scheme which includes roses
* A free rose garden design service for major landscape projects
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The English Roses are much more varied and easy to grow than is often understood. Some varieties have magnificent, heavy blooms held on arching stems. Others are quite compact, producing many neat, upright-facing rosettes on a bushy shrub. They are world-famous for the strength and complexity of their fragrances. The warm US climate tends to intensify their scent and gives many varieties extra vigor.
Areas of partial shade can be transformed by the use of English Roses, which will thrive, providing they have at least four or five hours of sunshine every day. When planting roses, always avoid areas which are overhung by trees and where there is great competition from the roots of other plants.
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In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that some varieties of English Roses are amongst the most effective and beautiful climbing roses in the world. Their ability to repeat flower, producing large, fragrant blooms, makes them worthy of a prime spot near to the house.
David Austin junior has always believed that many English Roses are exceptionally attractive hedging roses. In his own very English gardens, he is growing four long hedges of roses which act as boundaries to the meadow. They quickly form prickly barriers and are covered in flushes of blooms over a long season.
The picture on the left shows the early-summer flowering Constance Spry growing on a fence in Emeryville, California (picture courtesy of Jeffrey Wincek).
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The English Roses are a new kind of rose with a particular type of beauty. They are far removed from the hybrid tea rose, yet many varieties will perform a similar role as well, or better.
They are easy to care for and very forgiving, and do not require complex pruning routines. When they are grown as shrubs or hedging roses it is perfectly acceptable to prune them with a hedge trimmer: in fact that is what we tend to do in David Austin's official rose gardens.
Prune them hard to create a smaller plant or lightly if you would like a larger plant next year. In hotter climates, we recommend that the more vigorous varieties are summer pruned after each flush of flowering.
They can easily be incorporated into mixed planting schemes or can be grown in any kind of rose bed or border.
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We offer a landscaper's discount, subject to minimum order quantities and proof of trade status. All our roses are premium quality and are covered by our standard 12-month guarantee, giving extra reassurance for you and your clients. For further information or to request an application form and a copy of our latest wholesale brochure, please contact our US wholesale team:
- By phone on 903 526 1806 or 903 526 1807
- By emailing landscapers@davidaustinroses.com
- By writing to The Landscaper Program, David Austin Roses, 15059 State Highway 64 West, Tyler, TX 75704
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