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.

According to the David Austin Site:

The flowers are beautiful at all stages. Exquisite little buds open to half-enclosed cups, eventually becoming wide, shallow cups. The colour begins as soft-apricot pink, gradually changing to pure soft pink over time. With its upward facing blooms and pleasing formality of form, it is a particularly good rose for cutting to create flower arrangements in the home. There is a classic myrrh fragrance – a scent closely associated with the English Roses.

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Named to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between Queen Christina of Sweden and Oliver Cromwell of Great Britain in 1654.

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