How-To and Design
Beginner's Guide to Bare Root RosesThose unfamiliar with bare root roses can be taken aback when their first mail-order delivery arrives. Take heart — that clump of sticks with roots attached is just dormant. Here's a step-by-step planting guide to give novice gardeners a boost.
Practical Tips: English Roses and Mixed Border DesignChoice is a big part of what makes designing with English Roses such fun, say the experts at David Austin Roses in Albrighton, England. To this, add the fun of choosing bloom partners. When a particular rose and its partners hit it off, when your plants mesh in terms of color, height and texture, when they hit the mark for bloom time, sunlight and hardiness, when all of that comes together it’s magic.
Charming Bloom Partners for English Roses
(A Short List)Roses are jewels of the summer garden. As with their mineral cousins, their beauty is enhanced when placed in the right setting. According to the experts at David Austin Roses Ltd in Albrighton, England, English Roses are beautifully suited to mixed garden borders. The trick to combining roses successfully with other garden plants lies in knowing which will play well together.
(A Short List)Roses are jewels of the summer garden. As with their mineral cousins, their beauty is enhanced when placed in the right setting. According to the experts at David Austin Roses Ltd in Albrighton, England, English Roses are beautifully suited to mixed garden borders. The trick to combining roses successfully with other garden plants lies in knowing which will play well together.
Excellent Companion Plants for English Roses
(A Long List)David Austin’s English Roses have a romantic informality that is prized in garden design. The roses are beautifully enhanced by similarly relaxed companion plants such as cottage garden favorites and small-flowered plants with the look of wildflowers. This list of perennials, biennials and annuals includes options that are fairly easy to grow and likely to bloom when English Roses do, either exactly or with close overlap. Some bloom with English Roses earlier in the season, some later. Others have exceedingly long bloom seasons or may rebloom themselves as the roses rebloom.
(A Long List)David Austin’s English Roses have a romantic informality that is prized in garden design. The roses are beautifully enhanced by similarly relaxed companion plants such as cottage garden favorites and small-flowered plants with the look of wildflowers. This list of perennials, biennials and annuals includes options that are fairly easy to grow and likely to bloom when English Roses do, either exactly or with close overlap. Some bloom with English Roses earlier in the season, some later. Others have exceedingly long bloom seasons or may rebloom themselves as the roses rebloom.
