According to the David Austin Site:

Light crimson buds gradually open to reveal very deep velvety crimson blooms, with lighter coloured outer petals. The flowers are large cups at first, becoming shallowly cupped with time. As the flowers age, we get glimpses of the stigma and stamens amongst the petals. There is a strong Old Rose scent which our fragrance expert, Robert Calkin, assesses as “warm and fruity with blackberry, blueberry and damson notes”. A healthy variety.

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Munstead Wood was the name of the horticulturalist and garden designer Gertrude Jekyll’s home in Surrey, England. It was designed by the architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens, whose professional partnership with Jekyll was one of the most influential of the Arts and Crafts movement. Gertrude Jekyll wrote her many gardening books at Munstead Wood and it was her home for most of her life.

Taken with a Sony A77II and Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm f2.8 Macro.

According to the David Austin Site:

A well-rounded shrub bearing numerous, very large, cup-shaped flowers in shades of apricot and yellow, becoming tinted with pink as they age. It has a rich, fruity fragrance with a refreshing sharpness.

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Named after one of the founding figures of the Industrial Revolution, who lived in Shropshire, UK, where our nursery is located.

Taken with a Sony A77II and Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm f2.8 Macro.

According to the David Austin Site:

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 many small petals. There is a button eye in the centre. It is sweetly fragrant, with a charming, medium-strong Old Rose scent. The foliage is attractive with little disease.

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Named after Eglantyne Jebb, from Shropshire, who founded the Save the Children fund.

Taken with a Sony A77II and Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm f2.8 Macro.

According to the David Austin Site:

This is a particularly robust and healthy rose, producing long arching branches that flower very freely. The flower buds are blush pink at first, later opening to reveal flowers of blush touched with apricot. The outer petals are almost white with a hint of blush – the light reflecting among the petals to enhance the whole effect. The blooms have a perfect rosette shape and are distinctly quartered. They have a lovely, fresh, medium-strong fragrance. The foliage is quite small for an English Rose, very clean looking and remarkably free from disease.

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Named after the character in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native.

Taken with a Sony A77II and Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm f2.8 Macro.

According to the David Austin Site:

‘Crown Princess Margareta’ bears quite large flowers in a lovely shade of apricot-orange, which shows up well across the garden. The flowers are in the form of neatly arranged rosettes filled with many petals, which mingle to excellent effect in the centre of each bloom; the outer petals falling back and becoming paler. There is a strong, fruity fragrance of the tea rose type.

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Crown Princess Margareta was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and an accomplished landscape gardener and artist. With her husband, King Gustavus VI Adolfus of Sweden, she created the beautiful gardens at their Summer Palace, Sofiero Castle in Helsingborg, Sweden.

Taken with a Sony A77II and Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm f2.8 Macro.