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Shrub Roses and Climbing Roses: With Hybrid Tea and Floribunda Roses
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Product Description
The companion volume to Old Roses and English Roses by the distinguished rose breeder David Austin, this book is based on his rose compendium The Heritage of the Rose, published by the Antique Collectors' Club in 1988. An indispensable guide, in a convenient pocket-size format, this volume concentrates on Hybrid Tea, Floribunda, Shrub, Climbing, Rambling and Species Roses, and discusses some 560 roses in detail, with pointers as to flower and bud form and development, shape and size of plant, foliage, fragrance, date of introduction and breeder. Advice on cultivation and pruning is given for each main group of roses. David Austin is the proprietor of one of the world's leading rose nurseries, specialising in old and modern shrub roses and climbing roses.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #374455 in Books
- Published on: 1999-01-01
- Format: Illustrated
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
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About the Author
David Austin is the proprietor of one of the world's leading rose nurseries, specialising in Old and Modern Shrub Roses. He grows nearlt on thousand different varieties of rose and maintains one of the most beautiful rose gardens in Britain.
Customer Reviews
Excellent book on roses, including species and the old ramblers
This is a lovely book, which I have now read many many times and which led me on a voyage of discovery. Along with its companion volume (Old Roses and English Roses) it entirely dispelled my long-held conviction that roses were too difficult to grow. The delicious descriptions and lovely photographs are intoxicating and a cheering read on a winter day. Austin's taste, it should be said, is for the old-fashioned, highly perfumed single rose or full old-rose bloom, and for the natural shape of a good shrub rather than the stiffly pruned and often scentless bedding tea rose. This may not be everyone's taste, but it's certainly mine, which is one reason I enjoy these books. However, this book also led me to the world of the species rose, of which I was formerly entirely unaware, and species roses have become something of an addiction for me in my wild garden. I'm grateful to him for writing them.
