#davidaustinrose

My joy in the morning on a hot Texan summer day: An unfolding bloom of the David Austin Rose ‘Munstead Wood’. This rose might be toast a few hours later in our relentless summer heat, but when I water the garden in the early morning hours it is still perfection. Roses here are very fleeting in the summer and just remind me to live in the moment and enjoy them when they are at their best without expecting them to last. What a great lesson they teach each day! Hope you are all having a lovely weekend! #organicgardendreams #rose #roses #munsteadwood #munsteadwoodrose #davidaustinroses #davidaustinrose #davidaustin #cottagegardens #organic #organicgardening #inmygarden #inmygardentoday #mygarden #flowers #blooms #flower #bloom #redroses #redrose #austingardener #austingardeners #centraltexasgardener #gardening #rosegardener #fortheloveofroses #rosesofinstagram #instarose #instaroses #instagramroses (at Austin, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTE1bHHrwNk/?utm_medium=tumblr

Nothing quite like home grown! This beautiful David Austin rose smells beautiful in my garden, if only I could remember the variety name of it!! #davidaustinrose #englishrose #gardenrose #flowers (at Nottingham, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0wmktQHwSn/?igshid=19puh2sb294n

Gosh, how I miss beautiful, opulently flowering, sumptuous roses in my new garden here in Austin, Texas. Of course, I have planted a few new rose bushes already, to be precise, exactly three, but they are tiny own root babies that have a long way to go until they are able to produce plenty of decent size blooms. Austin, with its high heat and humidity, is also not really known for a climate in which roses thrive. But anyway, I will try to learn how to organically grow the best roses possible here. It will for sure take some patience and I have to admit that I wonder if I will ever see rose blooms like the ones on my photo in my own garden. Are you also growing roses in a challenging climate? By the way, the rose variety in my image is ‘Carding Mill‘, another enchanting David Austin rose that is supposed to do well in warm climates and comes with a heavenly strong fragrance. The picture was taken at the International Rose Test Garden in Portland a few years ago. . . . #rose #roses #rosesofinstagram #flowers #blooms #cardingmill #flowerphotography #rosecardingmill #cardingmillrose #apricotrose #gardening #davidaustinrose #englishrose #englishroses @david_austin_roses (at Austin, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBN2TdQAo0q/?igshid=f7ze91yvo2fr

Another beautiful and very romantic rose from Rosemoor! I came across this beauty in this RHS Garden located in Devon, England a few years back. I don’t know the exact name of this one, but I am pretty sure it is a David Austin Rose. Any guess, my fellow rose lovers? I hope your week is off to a good start! . . . #rose #roses #pink #pinkrose #romantic #davidaustinrose #davidaustinroses #davidaustin #rosemoor #devon #england #rhsgardenrosemoor #roselover #passionateaboutroses #roseconnoisseur #beautiful #lovely #englishrose #englishroses #publicrosegarden #rosegarden #publicgarden (at RHS Garden Rosemoor) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_xKOMOgwzS/?igshid=1jbqf4auhgljl

This is the first flower of ‘Munstead Wood‘ a David Austin rose creation, blooming in my new garden here in Austin! Our hot spring has bleached the usually dark deep velvety crimson/burgundy blooms to a much lighter crimson red color but nonetheless I am over the moon that it finally started to flower. This English Rose comes with an enchanting strong Old Graden Rose fragrance that makes it even more alluring. So far it is pretty healthy and I am really expecting great things from it in the future! Today is Memorial Day here in the US, so let’s not forget to take a moment and reflect about and thank those who have given their life so that we can live ours in freedom and safety! 🇺🇸🥀🖤 . . . #munsteadwood #munsteadwoodrose #rose #roses #red #redrose #redroses #inmygarden #mygarden #privategarden #privategardens #austin #texas #centraltexasgardening #centraltexasgardener #davidaustinrose #davidaustinroses #crimson #crimsonrose #englishrose #englishroses #memorialdayweekend #memorialday #memorialdayrose @david_austin_roses (at Austin, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAnMQ7AAs2n/?igshid=1efw0gnshybmc

The New Year is already well on its way and my motto is change. I hope I will be able to make many changes in my life and I have successfully started already. As far as the garden is concerned, overall last year was a pretty bad year for my beloved roses. I think, I watered them not enough, I probably fertilized too little, and the horrible infestation of chilly thrips for the first time in my garden last autumn really took it out of the roses and me as their steward. So I made the tough decision to reduce the total number of roses that I have and take the best possible care of the ones remaining, and if the chilli thrips return, probably trying to spray the roses with an organic insecticide. That is a big change for me since so far my garden has been completely no spray. But that is as far as I am willing to go. I will not resort to other types of spraying or systemic treatments that are more harmful to the environment and even if that means that I can’t grow roses in my garden anymore, which admittedly will be super tough for me, so be it! Please wish me luck! What are changes in your garden that you are planning to make this year? By the way, the romantic rose beauty on the photo is Scepter’d Isle, one of my all time favorites! . . . #rose #roses #pink #pinkroses #softcolored #softcoloredroses #romantic #romanticroses #scepterdisle #scepterdislerose #englishrose #davidaustin #davidaustinrose #romanticrose #roselover #roselovers #organic #organicrosecare #organicgardening #organicgardendreams #sandiego #southerncalifornia #california (at San Diego, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsgPzKFFTMS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10z7apci4du7b

‘The Prince’ (David Austin, 1990) is one of the most beautiful and fascinating roses that I grow in my garden! It is blooming right now and I am over the moon to see and smell its absolutely gorgeous flowers, again. These velvety, burgundy, wine red flowers that age to the darkest royal purple are so exquisite and they come with the most pleasing warm old rose fragrance that you can imagine. Can you tell that I am in love? I grow this rose on its own roots and the rose bush stays small and is not very vigorous in my garden. It is also not a prolific bloomer and suffers from powdery mildew frequently when the conditions are right, but the unsurpassed beauty of the blooms make me happily put up with all of his shenanigans. After all he is a prince! #rose #roses #rosa #theprince #theprincerose #davidaustin #davidaustinroses #davidaustinrose #inmygarden #inmygardentoday #organicgardendreams #fascinating #beautiful #winered #burgundy #purple #fragrant #oldrosefragrance #love #velvety #unsurpassedbeauty #exquisite (at San Diego, California)

Usually I am not into yellow roses, but who can resist the beauty of 'Teasing Georgia'? Photo taken at the rose garden at Mottisfont Abbey. #rose #roses #yellowroses #yellow #teasinggeorgia #rosateasinggeorgia #rosa'teasinggeorgia' #davidaustin #davidaustinroses #davidaustinrose #mottisfontabbey #mottisfont #beautiful #love (at Mottisfont, National Trust)