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Winter is the perfect time to enjoy the calm of the slower season in the garden.
With fragrances ranging from citrus to spice and a variety of growth habits, there’s a rose to suit every style of garden whether you’re covering an elegant arch or creating a potted paradise. We take a look at four different types and how to grow roses that will have your garden perfumed to perfection.
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This beautiful rambling David Austin rose features semi-double, pale pink blooms in elegant sprays along slender stems. Its flowers have a citrus fragrance and golden-yellow centres. Reaching up to 3.5m tall and 2.5m wide, it’s perfect for training up an obelisk or draping over an arch or pergola. Plant in full sun with moist, well-draining soil enriched with organic matter.
Tip: Watch our step-by-step video on how to make your own pergola.
Bred by David Austin to celebrate the royal wedding, this charming rose produces white blooms with a myrrh-like fragrance. A compact shrub reaching 1.25m tall and wide, it’s great in pots and mixed borders. Add compost or well-rotted manure to the soil when planting and apply rose-specific fertiliser in early spring.
Tip: Watch this video to learn how to make your own compost.
This floribunda rose develops into a vigorous, bushy plant, featuring large clusters of deep-yellow blooms with red-pink along the petals’ outer edges and a mild fragrance. It offers excellent resistance against common issues such as black spot and powdery mildew. Growing up to 1.2m tall, it’s ideal for pots in smaller gardens or as part of a mixed border with lavender and salvias.
Part of the Showpiece™ Fragrant Shrub rose series, this highly disease-resistant rose grows into a tidy, compact bush up to 1m tall and wide. The Champagne varietal’s creamy-peach blooms have an intense, fruity fragrance, starting as classic hybrid tea roses and opening into full flowers. Prune hard in winter or early spring, cutting back to 25-30cm above the ground.
Find out how to prune roses properly in this helpful video guide.
Photo credit: GAP Photos, Anthony Tesselar Plants, Alamy Stock Photo, Adobe Stock.
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