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I recently highlighted some of the new roses from two of Britain’s relatively new rose nurseries, David Austin Roses and Peter Beales Roses . So it only seems fair also to focus on those from a nursery that’s been around, one way or another, for over one hundred and thirty years – Harkness Roses . They...
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Peter Beales Roses are famous as champions of old fashioned roses. By making so many old roses available to gardeners and showing off so effectively in the Norfolk rose gardens, they’ve inspired a huge number of gardeners to grow them. In recent years they’ve also been developing new roses under the...
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At Chelsea this year, David Austin Roses again launched a batch of new varieties. They had five this year, all with the familiar David Austin combination of an old-fashioned look but with the modern attributes of a long flowering season, disease resistance and compact growth. Boscobel (Auscousin), named...
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Four new roses created by David Austin make their first appearance in the 2012 RHS Plantfinder, but Wollerton Old Hall (‘Ausblanket’) just pips the other three in being available from more nurseries. It first saw the light of day at last summer’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and in what has become...
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At the National Plant Show , back in the summer, I was very taken with a dainty new rose in the old-fashioned style. It didn’t win any prizes, unfortunately the actual specimen on show was not at its peak, but I marked it down as a rose to look out for when it appeared on the market. And here it is....
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New roses appear every year and at the forthcoming Hampton Court Palace Flower Show there will be a flood of newcomers. But one of the most interesting of this year’s new introductions was launched at Chelsea and short listed for the Chelsea Plant of the Year Award . Claire Marshall (‘Harunite’) is a...
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We see so many new roses launched every year, mostly through the familiar rose nurseries we see at the Chelsea and Hampton Court shows, that it's refreshing to see some good new varieties from a less familiar source. Delbard Roses in France has a long tradition of introducing fine varieties. They...
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OK, this really is the last new Hampton Court Palace Flower Show plant. The trail has gone cold on the new astrantia I spotted but one slipped through the net along the way: Harkness Roses finally introduced the last of their new roses for the year, Red Hat Lady (‘Harpeep') . This was held back from...
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Peter Beales Roses is a rose nursery best known for its invaluable collection of old roses and for following in the footsteps of Graham Stuart Thomas in bringing information on old roses to a wider public. But Peter Beales Roses also breed and introduce new roses and after some fine new introductions...
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As the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show enters its final day two new Floribunda roses continue to take the attention of visitors on the Pococks Roses exhibit in the Tudor Rose Festival . Rose ‘Durrell' is a very unusual colour. With coppery red young growth, each semi-double flower is deep red and...
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C & K Jones have some great new roses at this year's Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Earlier I talked about ‘Josephine' and about their Rose of the Year ‘Absolutely Fabulous' . But I also took a look their other two newcomers. One of the recurring themes of the new roses introduced...
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The Tudor Rose Festival is one of the highlights of the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and many of the rose nurseries who are exhibiting there have new roses on show. Style Roses from Lincolnshire have a fine new Hybrid Tea raised by Edward Smith, it's called ‘Bride and Groom' . It reaches...
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Over in the Tudor Rose Festival marquee at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show the award for the best exhibit went to Mattocks Roses who also introduce a lovely new Hybrid Tea. Rose Pink Perfection ('Korpauvio') is a neat-growing plant featuring high-centred pink flowers which open widely and...
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Rose nurseries make a big deal about the Rose of the Year - and quite right too. Each year they all vote on the best new rose and it's launched at the Tudor Rose Festival here at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show . The winner for 2010 has just been announced - Absolutely Fabulous ('Wekvossutono'...
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Last year the Rose of the Year , Lucky , was a Fryer's rose and although they year they don't have Rose of the Year Fryers do have two fine new varieties launching here at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show . Both are Floribundas. ‘Super Trouper' , named for the ABBA song, is a vivid coppery...
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