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40 Mind-Blowingly Beautiful English Roses

By: Andrew Sisk and Felicia Feaster

British rose breeder David Austin creates some of the most beautiful flowers in the world. Find out which types of English roses are most in demand in American gardens.

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'Boscobel'

'Boscobel' features beautifully formed small-petaled salmon colored flowers. It has a medium-strong myrrh fragrance with hints of elderflower, pear and almond.

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'Royal Jubilee'

Like other roses in the English Alba group, 'Royal Jubilee' has a light, airy, vigorous growth habit that works well in borders. The big, semi-doubled flowers are a deep, velvety pink held against glossy, grey-green foliage. These repeat-flowering shrubs grow to 5' tall by 3' wide and have very few thorns. There’s a note of blackcurrants in the flowers’ fruity fragrance.

This rose’s light perfume changes as the flowers age, opening with Tea Rose and ending as myrrh. The shrubs grow up to 5’ tall and 3’ wide, making them a good addition to mixed perennial borders. The loosely cupped petals are a soft apricot color and have darker, golden-apricot stamens.

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'The Lark Ascending'

This rose's light perfume changes as the flowers age, opening with Tea Rose and ending as myrrh. The shrubs grow up to 5' tall and 3' wide, making them a good addition to mixed perennial borders. The loosely cupped petals are a soft apricot color and have darker, golden-apricot stamens.

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Photo: Image courtesy of David Austin Roses

'Golden Celebration'

'Golden Celebration' (Ausgold) features giant, full-petaled flowers.

40 Mind-Blowingly Beautiful English Roses

'Boscobel'

'Royal Jubilee'

'The Lark Ascending'

'Golden Celebration'

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