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Constance Spry

One of our most beautiful Shrub Roses. Its magnificent clear pink blooms are
of true old fashioned type and exceptionally large, with a luminous delicacy
that is hard to compare with any other rose. It forms a lax-growing shrub of some 6 to
7 feet tall and as much across. Although often used as a shrub, it
makes one of the most glorious of all climbers; as anyone who has seen it at
Mottisfont Abbey, will agree. It has a strong myrrh fragrance; in fact, it
was this rose that introduced the myrrh fragrance to the breeding of the
English Roses. 12-15 ft. or more.

Eglantyne

We regard this as one of the most beautiful of the English Roses. The flowers are quite large and of exquisite formation - the petals turning up at the edges to form a shallow saucer filled with small petals. The growth is ideal, being of medium height and bushy, with nice foliage and little disease, making it in every way an excellent garden plant.

It is sweetly fragrant - a charming and delicate Old Rose scent.

Named after Eglantyne Jebb, the Shropshire woman who founded the ‘Save the Children' charity fund. 3.5 ft. X 3 ft.

English Garden

A true 'Old Rose', opening flat and perfectly formed, with numerous small petals. The colour is a soft apricot-yellow at the centre, paling a little towards the edges. The growth is upright, and the foliage pale green. Suitable for a border, but also a good bedding rose. 3ft. x 2.5ft.

Evelyn

Evelyn bears giant, apricot colored flowers of a shallow, saucer-like shape, with numerous small petals inter-twined within. This is not the most vigorous of English Roses, but the individual flower is absolutely magnificent.

Its great glory is its wonderful fragrance, which is similar in style to an Old Rose, but with a sumptuous fruity note reminiscent of fresh peaches and apricot.

Named on behalf of Crabtree & Evelyn, who used it in their range of rose perfumes.

Gertrude Jeykll

The flowers of this rose start as perfect little scrolled buds and soon open into the most beautiful, large, rosette-shaped flowers of rich glowing pink. The growth is upright and vigorous and in every way reliable.

A beautiful and well balanced Old Rose scent - the quintessential rose fragrance.

Gertrude Jekyll was a famous gardener of one hundred years ago, who has had a profound effect on the gardens of the present day.

Glamis Castle

Pure white, cup-shaped flowers of typical Old Rose character. Its growth is quite short and bushy with numerous twiggy branches, upon which it bears flowers with quite exceptional freedom and continuity - making it ideal both as a border rose and for bedding. It has an English Rose, myrrh fragrance. Glamis Castle is the childhood home of The Queen Mother and the legendary setting of Shakespeare¹s play 'Macbeth'.

3ft. x 2.5ft.

Golden Celebration

This is one of the largest-flowered and most magnificent of our English Roses. Its color is rich golden yellow and the flowers are in the form of a giant, full-petalled cup. It has excellent shapely growth, forming a nicely rounded, slightly arching shrub with ample foliage. It is very reliable and easy to grow. An ideal rose to mark any celebration or important event.
The flowers are initially Tea-scented but often develop a wonderful combination of sauterne wine and strawberry.

Graham Thomas

One of the most widely sought-after of the English Roses. It has cupped flowers of medium size; their color being an unusually rich and pure yellow that would be hard to match even among modern Hybrid Teas. The growth is upright but bushy and very vigorous, with shiny, pale green, disease-resistant leaves. It is an excellent rose, both in beauty and performance.
There is a fresh Tea Rose fragrance, with a cool violet character typical of its color group.
Mr. Graham Thomas is one of the most influential rosarians of our time.

Heritage

One of the most popular of our English Roses. The blooms are of perfect, cupped formation and of medium size; they are a very soft, clear pink at the center, while the outer petals are almost white. This is a flower of delicate shell-like beauty. The growth is excellent, showing signs of its grandparent Iceberg , with a smooth, rather ‘Musk Rose' foliage and clean stems with only a few thorns. It is strong and bushy with excellent repeat-flowering properties and will grow to form a shapely, well-rounded shrub.
It has a beautiful fragrance, with overtones of fruit, honey and carnation on a myrrh background.

LD Braithwaite

This rose has the brightest crimson colouring of all the English Roses; standing out when viewed from across the garden.
It is related to Mary Rose and has many of that rose's good garden qualities. The flowers open wide and slightly cupped. They are produced freely and with remarkable continuity. There is little scent until the
flower ages, when it develops a charming Old Rose fragrance.

Mary Rose

One of the most widely grown English Roses and it is not difficult to see why. It forms a good bushy shrub, that is particularly winter-hardy and blooms with unusual regularity throughout the summer. The flowers are of attractive, loose-petalled formation and of strong rose pink coloring. A first class garden shrub that mixes well with other plants.

The delicious fragrance is of Old Rose character, with a hint of honey and almond blossom.

It was named after Henry VIII's flagship when it was recovered from the Solent after more than four hundred years. 5 ft. X 4 ft.

Sharif Asama

An exquisite rose of true Old Rose charm. The
blooms are shallowly cupped at first and gradually reflex to form a perfect
rosette. A most delicate blush pink, fading to almost white on the outer
petals. Short, rather upright growth. One of the most beautiful English
Roses, but it can be damaged by very hot sun. A distinctive and beautiful
fragrance with fruity notes reminiscent of white grapes and mulberry.

Sweet Juliet

Attractive, neatly formed and medium-sized rosettes in shades of glowing apricot. The growth is particularly strong, sending up numerous upright branches from the base - making it suitable for further back in the border. For good flowers, this variety requires pruning to half its size. Reliable and disease resistant. A delightfully fresh fragrance in the Tea Rose tradition, developing a cool lemon character as the flower
develops

Tess of the Durbervilles

Large fragrant flowers of bright
crimson colouring. They are of a nice, deeply cupped shape in the early stages; the petals turning back to give a less formal but still attractive
flower. They bend over with their weight, to give an elegant effect. The
growth is robust, bushy and spreading and the leaves large and dark green.
Named after the character from Thomas Hardy¹s novel. 4 ft. X 3.5 ft. (6-8 ft. as climber)

Winchester Cathedral

A lovely, white version of the beautiful Mary Rose , It has all the virtues of its parent and is similar in every way, except that its flowers are white with occasionally the slightest touch of buff-pink at the center. The overall effect is excellent, with a mass of flowers held on a bushy shrub, which blooms at regular intervals throughout the season.

The fragrance is of Old Rose character with a hint of honey and almond blossom.

Named after one of the finest Cathedrals in Britain. 4 ft. X 4 ft.