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In this
issue...
Crimson shrub
roses for
hot areas
Special Offer –
free
rose
Valentine’s Day
bouquets
Philadelphia
Flower
Show competition
News
from
England
Valentine’s
Day
bouquets
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In
this month’s issue, we focus on crimson English Roses and have a
special offer for newsletter readers. We highlight our Valentine’s
Day bouquets and have details of our latest competition and news of
our plans for the Philadelphia Flower Show.
Our
recommended shipping window for gardeners in the far South, the
South Eastern coastal and Western coastal regions will soon close.
If you haven’t yet placed your order, and are not sure which roses
to choose for your garden, here is a selection of our favorite
English Roses for these areas.
Few of us can resist the beauty
of a crimson rose. Even if you’re not expecting to receive a
Valentine’s gift this year, by treating yourself to a beautiful
shrub rose, you can enjoy the romance of garden roses all summer
long. With our Valentine’s Day theme in mind, we’ve chosen five deep
crimson shrub roses - all very different in character - to
demonstrate the diversity of our collection. These reliable roses
enjoy the heat and withstand humid conditions well. They are all
great for cutting and are winter hardy down to zone 5, with the
exception of The Dark Lady. Please bear in mind that these are bare
root roses and will not be shipped for Valentine’s Day.
The
Dark Lady
This rose excels in warmer areas and so performs
much better in US gardens than in England. The large, sumptuous
blooms have a wonderful Old Rose fragrance. In warmer areas it tends
to be a rich, deep pink color.
More
information….
Tess of the
d’Urbervilles
This rose can be fanned out to create a
sensational short climbing rose on a wall or pillar, but will remain
surprisingly compact in warmer areas if summer pruned. There is a
lovely old rose fragrance.
More
information….
Darcey
Bussell
Our featured rose is one of our best and most
reliable crimson varieties. It flowers freely and has a nice,
compact, bushy habit. It’s perfect for the front of the border or an
oversized pot or planter.
More
information…
LD Braithwaite
This is
the brightest crimson rose in our collection. The blooms are
beautiful wide rosettes and are produced freely. This shrub rose has
pride of place in the border at the entrance to our UK Plant
Centre.
More
information…
William Shakespeare
2000
One of our most popular crimsons. The color is deep and
velvety, gradually developing rich purple tones. The flowers are in
the shape of wonderful quartered rosettes and have a powerful old
rose fragrance.
More
information…
Special offer – free
rose
As a thank you for reading our newsletter, we are
offering one rose free when you buy four or more roses. Please
select the roses you would like to buy, then enter the code NL3 in
your shopping basket and click update to qualify for your free rose.
Our special newsletter offer applies until March 31st
2010.
Your free rose cannot be a tree rose or a new
introduction. Our free rose offer cannot be combined with other
offers – for example, our offer does not apply to roses ordered as
part of collection offers.
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here to shop for roses
Click
here to see our rose collections A to G
David
Austin’s new roses for 2010
We are sorry that Munstead Wood,
one of our new introductions has already sold out. We still have a
little stock remaining of Wisley 2008, Princess Alexandra of Kent
and Sir John Betjeman, but expect Young Lycidas will run out of
stock shortly. If you plan to buy these roses, we recommend that you
place your order as soon as you can.
Click
here to see our new English Roses
Philadelphia
Flower Show
We’re really excited that for the first time in
seven years or more, David Austin will be exhibiting at the 2010
Philadelphia International Flower Show. We’re really looking forward
to the chance to meet American gardeners and rose lovers after all
this time. We’ll be proudly showcasing our new luxury cut roses and
we have chosen a small, but choice selection of garden roses which
we’ll be selling during the show. The event is open to the public
from Sunday February 28th through Sunday March 7th, 2010. Please do
make a
note to call in and say ‘Hello’ if you’re planning to be
at this wonderful gardening event.
We’re offering two lucky
newsletter readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to the show
on Saturday 6th March. Simply tell us why you think we should choose
you for this horticultural treat. To enter, please send an e-mail
titled ‘Philadelphia’ with your answer in 75 words or less to competition@davidaustinroses.com to reach us by 22nd February
2010.
Photography Competition
results
We are sorry that it has taken us so long to choose
the winners of the last photography competition and promise to do
better next time. We always say that the quality of the entries
received gets better every year and that was certainly true this
year. We have written to congratulate our winners and have awarded
some extra runners up prizes to try to make amends.
News
from England
The Huntington Library in San Marino,
California, and New York’s Manhattan Rose Society, hold an annual
series of lectures dedicated to the “Great Rosarians of the World”.
Last month, David CH Austin was thrilled to be named the lecture
series’ 2010 honoree. Now aged 83, David CH Austin doesn’t find it
quite as easy to travel as he used to. Instead, he sent a video
message which he recorded earlier in the summer when Clair Martin,
curator of Rose Collections at The Huntington Library, visited the
rose gardens here in Albrighton, UK.
We always enjoy
receiving visitors from the United States. If you’re planning to
visit the UK this summer, you might like to know that the best time
to catch our world-famous rose gardens in full flower is usually
late June. Of course as the garden is overflowing with fragrant
English Roses, they will repeat flower in flushes during the summer.
This means that the gardens will look good until the end of
September, after a brief resting period in late July following the
roses’ first main flush of flower.
Our philosophy is to offer
gardeners a broad collection of English Roses, each with its own
individual character. Our Handbook of Roses and our website
are designed to help you to choose the best varieties to suit your
individual preferences and gardening style. We want you to grow
roses that will perform well in your part of the country and that
will suit the position you have available in your garden or
yard.
With so many beautiful roses to choose from, we are
always happy to offer individual advice about rose selection. If you
would appreciate help to place an order, or if you would like advice
on any of our new varieties, please contact our customer service
team toll free on 800 328 8893 between 8 am and 6 pm Central Time,
Monday to Friday or e-mail your question to
us@davidaustinroses.com
Valentine’s Day
Bouquets
There’s still time to order a sensational hand-tied
rose bouquet for Valentine’s Day – but only just!
David
Austin’s irresistible rose bouquets are the perfect choice if your
loved one prefers the natural beauty of garden-style cut roses. For
a classic, contemporary look, you might like to consider one of
David Austin’s elegant Rose Bouquets, made to please the purist,
with roses alone. For a more opulent effect, our Rose Garden
Bouquets combine twelve roses with an alluring blend of herbs,
foliage and dainty seasonal flowers.
Click
here to view our collection
How to
Order
Orders can be placed online at www.davidaustinroses.com.
Scroll to the bottom of the page for more options, for example to
view all our bouquets by color or by price or to learn more about
each individual variety.
If you’d like help to choose the
perfect bouquet, please call our customer service team toll free
between 8 am and 6 pm Central Time on 800 328 8893. Prices start
from $80 plus shipping for our current featured bouquet: our twelve
stem Juliet Rose Bouquet in sophisticated shades of peach.
We loved Mariana Greene’s fantastic article ‘Making Sweet
Scents’ in The Dallas Morning News, which explains how David
Austin’s garden-style cut roses differ from other commercially grown
roses. If you didn’t get a chance to see this feature, you can click
here to read it online.
If you’re looking for a fragrant
bouquet, you might like to consider one of these popular single
variety designs.
Patience Rose Garden Bouquet
Our
delightful buttermilk rose, Patience, has many ruffled petals, like
fine lace. The complex old rose fragrance has elements of fruit,
lilac and myrrh. To purchase this bouquet please click
here
Phoebe Rose Garden Bouquet
Phoebe’s
wide blooms have many inner petals beautifully arranged around a
traditional button eye. There is a mouth-wateringly fruity
fragrance. To buy Phoebe Rose Garden Bouquet, please click
here
Bouquets ordered before 12 noon on Thursday will
be delivered by courier on Friday. Due to the timing of Valentine’s
Day this year, our normal Saturday morning delivery surcharge will
be waived.
To view our bouquet collection, please click
here
Your feedback is very welcome and we are always
pleased to receive your ideas and comments for future newsletters.
If you’ve not already done so, you might like to add
us@davidaustinroses.com to your address book or safe
list.
Very best wishes from all at David Austin
Roses
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