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Gardening How To Reader Trials
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Over the last two seasons, we've sent five varieties of David Austin's English Roses to take part in tests carried out by Gardening How To Magazine's member panel, which is part of the National Home Gardening Club. We are delighted that all the varieties tested have now been approved.
This means that we're able to show the following roses together with the Gardening How To member tested and recommended logo. During the trials, panel members grow the roses in their own gardens and provide a report back to the magazine. To be awarded the recommended seal, 90% or more of the reports must be positive.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Carding Mill, The Alnwick Rose, Golden Celebration and Huntington Rose have all been approved and have either been featured in Gardening How To Magazine or will be featured in the next few months. We've described the roses below.
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Repeat-flowering English Rose
The Alnwick® Rose is strong and healthy with the plentiful, polished foliage typical of the Leander Group. It is reliable and easy to grow.
The rose produces many, medium-sized cupped blooms which have a rich old rose fragrance with hints of raspberry.
The Alnwick® Rose was named for the Duchess Of Northumberland, who has created one of the most impressive large gardens of recent times in England, near Alnwick Castle. The garden contains a magnificent display of roses, including thousands of English Roses.
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Repeat-flowering English Rose
Carding Mill has a beautiful and unusual coloring of mixed shades of pink, apricot and yellow. This effect is due to a characteristic that Carding Mill shares with several other English Roses, including Pat Austin and Abraham Darby. These roses all have petals with a contrasting, softer shade on the reverse of each petal and a deeper color within. There is a strong and beautiful myrrh fragrance.
This variety forms a bushy shrub rose, each bloom nodding gracefully on the stem in the classic English style.
The rose is named after a beautiful English Valley.
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Repeat-flowering English Rose
Tess of the d'Urbervilles has attractive, cerise-crimson coloring. The beautifully-formed blooms are deeply cupped, with many intertined petals; the outer petals eventually reflexing back. There is a pleasant old rose fragrance.
The rose is named after the heroine in Thomas Hardy's novel of the same name, which was first published in 1891.
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Repeat-flowering English Rose
Golden Celebration has magnificent, beautifully-formed blooms of soft golden-yellow. They have a delicacy and poise: a fine illustration of how even the largest blooms can be held, perfectly poised, on the branch.
There is a lovely, strong, complex scent which tends to be carried in the air. This variety forms quite a large shrub which compliments the flowers as everything is quite in proportion.
Create a superb specimen rose by planting three roses together in a group of three and pruning to form a single shrub shape.
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Repeat-flowering English Rose
The beautiful Huntington Rose has true Old Rose character, in flower form, fragrance and foliage. It is a particularly tough and healthy, producing arching stems which, at maturity, form a graceful, well-rounded shrub.
This rose is named for the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. Their historic rose garden celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2008. Michael Marriott of David Austin will join the celebrations with a rose lecture on 28th September 2008. For further details, please contact Clair Martin at the Huntington Library.
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