9 David Austin orange roses
Selection of Roses to Brighten Your Garden
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Created by the renowned rose breeder David Austin, the David Austin English roses offer delightful and fragrant flowers for many months. They combine the qualities of old roses and modern roses. Taking the form of bushes or climbing roses, they enhance gardens with a romantic touch. If you love the colour orange, here is a selection of David Austin English roses to plant in your garden!
The rose 'Lady of Shalott', with its subtle shades of colour
The rose ‘Lady of Shalott’ is a bush measuring 1.25 metres by 1.10 metres, suitable for growing in the garden or in a pot on a terrace. It produces double, round flowers in warm, nuanced tones, from June to October. The petals offer a contrast of colours: on one side, they are salmon pink and on the other, golden yellow. The flowers emit a light fragrance of apple and clove. The stems are slightly curved and bear medium green foliage.
Very resilient, it pairs well with perennial plants that it towers over. Choose blue, yellow, or chocolate brown plants to create an eye-catching contrast. You can draw from Heucheras with their highly decorative foliage, Delphiniums, or even Golden baskets.
Rose ‘Lady of Shalott’
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5 climbing roses with orange flowersThe rose 'Crown Princess Margareta', the charm of rosette flowers
The rose ‘Crown Princess Margareta’ forms a bush 1.5 metres high and 1.4 metres wide, ideal for the back of a border. It produces double flowers from June to October, with tightly packed petals beautifully arranged in rosettes. They exude an intense fruity fragrance reminiscent of Tea roses. They measure 8 cm and display a soft light orange colour reminiscent of apricot. You can use them as cut flowers.
Very hardy and resilient, the rose ‘Crown Princess Margareta’ withstands frost down to -25 to -30° C. Place it in full sun or partial shade and pair it with other roses such as the rose ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, whose mauve violet colour will create beautiful contrasts with the apricot orange. You can also train it as a climbing rose and combine it with a multicoloured botanical rose like Rosa chinensis ‘Mutabilis’, which has yellow, salmon, pink, and magenta flowers. Complete the display with a clematis ‘Baby Star’ in white.
Rose ‘Crown Princess Margareta’ (photo Wikipedia)
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The rose 'Grace', with its beautifully delicate blooms
The rose ‘Grace’ boasts numerous qualities. The flowers of the ‘Grace’ rose unfold with a sensual and delightful fragrance, displaying a darker apricot orange at the centre and a lighter hue at the edges. They form a perfect rosette with slightly raised outer petals and bloom from June to October, surrounded by foliage that transitions from purple to bright green.
This bush rose reaches a height of 1 metre and a spread of 1.25 metres. Healthy and easy to grow, it is recommended for beginner gardeners. It can be planted in a flower bed or in a pot on a terrace. Pair it with other roses such as the David Austin ‘Golden Celebration’ with its yellow flowers and award-winning fragrance, or the ‘Blue Eyes’ rose with mauve flowers and a purple heart, featuring a lemony scent.
Rose ‘Grace’ (photo rexness)
The rose 'Pat Austin', an award-winning variety by the Royal Horticultural Society
The ‘Pat Austin’ rose boasts beautiful qualities, featuring a warm colour rich in nuances and a heady Tea rose fragrance. From June to October, it produces flowers in soft coppery orange tones leaning towards ochre, salmon, and yellow. They open in very double cup shapes revealing 40 bicoloured petals, coppery orange on the outside and yellow on the inside. The small bouquets of roses are highly fragrant with warm Tea rose scents. Its characteristics have earned it awards in England from the Royal Horticultural Society, despite the sensitivity of its foliage to rose diseases.
The ‘Pat Austin’ rose grows into a bushy shrub, reaching 1.30 metres in height and 1 metre in width. It harmonises well in a border alongside a dark-leaved Physocarpus such as Physocarpus opulifolius ‘Summer Wine’, a white rose like the ‘Winchester Cathedral’ rose, or a mauve rose like the ‘Charles de Gaulle’ rose.
‘Pat Austin’ rose
The rose 'Lady Emma Hamilton', a symphony of colours
The ‘Lady Emma Hamilton’ rose offers a flowering display with rich colour variations from June to October. The petals are mandarin orange on the front and yellow-orange on the back. The buds are a deep red streaked with orange. The flowers emit a powerful fruity fragrance of pear, grape, and citrus trees. The foliage is bronze green and purplish.
The ‘Lady Emma Hamilton’ rose grows into a bush 1.25 metres high and 90 cm wide, making it ideal for small gardens or for growing in pots. Healthy and elegant, it can be paired with campanulas or delphiniums in blue hues, or with silver foliage such as wormwoods.
‘Lady Emma Hamilton’ rose (photo pemberlolly)
The rose 'Summer Song', with intense colours and fragrance
The rose ‘Summer Song’ is a plant full of surprises. Blooming from June to October, its flowers are rich in numerous shades ranging from caramel to orange. The petals are arranged in regular rosettes. The flowers are also highly fragrant and offer elusive scents, with notes of banana and Tea rose. The 9 cm roses make beautiful cut flowers for arranging in a vase at home.
The rose ‘Summer Song’ is a bush that reaches 1.25 metres in height and 90 cm in width, making it suitable for planting in a garden bed, pathway, or passage to fully enjoy its intense and unique colours and fragrance. It can be paired with other roses in similar yellow or orange hues. For example, try combining it with a David Austin rose ‘Crown Princess Margareta’ in softer tones. You can also underplant it with gypsophila such as Gypsophila paniculata ‘Bristol Fairy’, which produces clouds of delicate white flowers from July to September. You can even use it to enhance your bouquets, adding a touch of lightness!
Rose ‘Summer Song’
The rose 'Carolyn Knight', a powerful honey fragrance
If you love the scent of honey and soft tones, the ‘Carolyn Knight’ rose might just enchant you. It is a variation of the ‘Summer Song’ rose in a softer colour palette, ranging from golden coppery orange to warm pink hues. Its flowers appear from June to October. They measure 9 cm, are very double, and consist of petals arranged within a circle of outer petals. Their intense fragrance releases notes of honey, almond, myrrh, blackcurrant, and tea rose. The foliage is a bright green.
This bush, 1.25 metres tall with a spread of 1 metre, brightens up borders with its upright habit and scents the pathways. The stems bend slightly under the weight of the roses, adding to its charm. Plant it at the back of a border and surround its base with tall phlox, hardy geraniums, purple linaria, or blue nigella. You can also plant it at the foot of other bushes like a lilac or a Holodiscus discolor with its stunning panicles of trailing white flowers.
‘Carolyn Knight’ rose
The 'Fighting Temeraire' rose for twilight colours
The flowers of the rose ‘Fighting Temeraire’ have an unusual shape for an English rose. With a diameter of 11 cm, they are large and single, composed of 10 petals in twilight shades opening in a cup shape over a golden yellow heart. Their colours are bright and vibrant, ranging from intense apricot to orange-yellow. The leaves, initially purplish-red, turn to satin green. Grouped in a bouquet, the roses emit a fruity fragrance with a dominant note of lemon zest.
The rose ‘Fighting Temeraire’ grows into a bush 1.5 metres high and 1.25 metres wide. Plant it in a flowering bed next to a purple Cotinus like the Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Purple’, which is very ornamental with its foliage and clouds of purple flowers. You can also highlight the rose ‘Fighting Temeraire’ by placing it in front of a hedge of box or yew. This rose can also be trained to climb.
Rose ‘Fighting Temeraire’
The rose 'Port Sunlight', with regular and highly fragrant blooms.
The ‘Port Sunlight’ rose produces charming flowers in regular rosettes with dark apricot shades at the centre, contrasting with a lighter corolla of petals around the edges. They appear between June and October, offering a powerful Tea rose fragrance. The foliage, initially bronze-red, later turns dark green.
Healthy and vigorous, this bush has an upright habit of 1.5 metres high and 1 metre wide. It fits well in flower beds, at the back of perennials, or in a landscape hedge. For example, you can plant it in groups of three and surround it with a small boxwood hedge next to yews.
‘Port Sunlight’ rose (photo rexness)
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