{"id":10876,"date":"2021-05-23T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/?p=10876"},"modified":"2025-06-07T14:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:54:38","slug":"literary-english-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2021\/05\/literary-english-roses.html","title":{"rendered":"Literary English Roses from David Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Purchase David Austin roses<\/a> directly from the company. Great five year guarantee!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Austin roses are the roses for literature lovers. I\u2019m a writer and avid reader, so these gorgeous selections made my heart flutter. Suddenly I\u2019m ready to sit in the garden and read a good book! Anyone up for some Shakespeare? See what you think of these stunning roses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The David Austin company provided the original images that accompanied this article. They were sent to me with a press release and link to the media center and can only be used to promote David Austin roses. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Literary English Rose Tradition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

David C. H. Austin was an author and poet who had a special place in his heart for English classic literature. In the 1950s he decided to start breeding English roses<\/a> to have bountiful blooms and exquisite fragrance. He also decided to combine his love of roses with his love of English literature. Though Austin died in 2018, the tradition of naming roses for beloved literary characters and authors continues today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is seen in the 2021 new varieties<\/a> \u2018Eustacia Vye\u2019 and \u2018Garbriel Oak\u2019, both characters from novels written by Thomas Hardy. \u2018Eustacia Vye\u2019, from The Return of the Native, is a medium sized shrub that is great for container gardening or for borders with flushes of blooms throughout the season. \u2018Gabriel Oak\u2019 from Far from the Madding Crowd, is slightly larger but also provides repeat flowering. It makes a striking border or grouping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More Literary Beauty from David Austin English Roses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Eustacia Vye\u2019 and Garbriel Oak\u2019 aren\u2019t the only English roses named for Thomas Hardy characters. There is \u2018Bathsheba\u2019 also from the novel Far from the Madding Crowd. \u2018Bathsheba\u2019 is an English climbing rose<\/a> with delicate apricot flowers. \u2018Tess of the D\u2019urbervilles\u2019, named for the Hardy novel of the same name, is a slightly smaller climber with deep red repeating blossoms. \u2018Jude the Obscure\u2019, named for the novel, is a medium shrub with soft yellow, fruity fragranced flowers that continue all season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Shakespeare is more your style, you\u2019ll want to check out \u2018Desdemona\u2019 from Othello, either as an English standard tree rose or as a shrub. With its lovely white repeating blooms and affinity for all soil types, you can\u2019t really go wrong with either one. Then there\u2019s \u2018Gentle Hermione\u2019 from A Winter\u2019s Tale and its large pink flowers. And Richard II was the inspiration for \u2018Scepter\u2019d Isle\u2019 which is also available as a shrub or tree and has light pink flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A mid-pink English rose, \u2018The Ancient Mariner\u2019 was named for the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Who could forget Geoffrey Chaucer and his masterpiece Canterbury Tales? It inspired \u2018The Pilgrim\u2019, a soft yellow climbing rose. And \u2018The Lady of the Lake\u2019 is a pale pink rambling rose inspired by Sir Walter Scott. And Alfred Tennison wrote The Lady of Shallot which inspired the deliciously orange rose of the same name, available as a large shrub or a rambling rose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tribute to Authors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

David Austin roses aren\u2019t just names after fictional characters. Some of their gorgeous English roses are named for exceptional writers. For example, \u2018Gertrude Jekyll\u2019 is a bright pink shrub or climber<\/a> named for the British garden writer. Emily Bront\u00eb inspired the soft, creamy pink shrub named for her. And what better color than apricot for the author of James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVanessa Bell\u2019 a pale yellow tea-scented shrub, isn\u2019t named for an author or a character. Rather, it is named for an influential British woman who was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group in 1905. This was a group for artists, writers and other intellectuals one of whom was her sister, famed author Virginia Woolf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storybook Garden<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know about you, but all these beautiful roses<\/a> named for my favorite literary works and authors makes me want to plant a storybook garden. Or rather, a literary garden. If you\u2019re inspired too, you\u2019ll find an English rose to fit every area of your garden on the David Austin roses<\/a> website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original images that accompanied this article were provided by the David Austin company through their publicist and used with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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