David Austin Roses

David Austin Roses represent over six decades of breeding roses at Albrighton in Shropshire, where the David Austin family has combined the charm of old roses with the vigour and repeat flowering of modern roses. The result — David Austin's English roses — offer garden roses of exceptional fragrance and beauty, bred to grow in almost every position in United Kingdom gardens. At Boma, our David Austin collection includes shrub roses such as the apricot-pink 'Roald Dahl', the blush 'Olivia Rose Austin', and 'The Lark Ascending', alongside climbing roses and ramblers for walls, arches, and pergolas. Our extensive collection is chosen for reliable performance and outstanding roses features in UK growing conditions.

David Austin roses grow in a wide range of garden conditions but perform best in full sun with six or more hours of direct light per day, planted in a fertile, moisture-retentive rose bed enriched with well-rotted garden compost before planting. David Austin recommends deadheading regularly to encourage repeat bloom through summer into autumn — a key advantage of modern roses over old roses that flower only once. Feed with a specialist rose fertiliser in spring and again in midsummer for strongest performance. The disease resistance bred into Austin roses across generations of breeding roses in Shropshire reduces the need for spraying compared to many old garden roses and species roses, keeping the garden healthy with minimal intervention.

For London gardens, David Austin roses excel in beds, containers, and mixed borders with other plants. Shrub roses such as 'Kew Gardens' and 'Crocus Rose' suit smaller spaces, forming bushy mounds of bloom through summer and autumn. Old roses such as 'William Shakespeare 2000' offer the deepest crimson blooms with classic quartered rose form and intense fragrance. For vertical planting, climbing varieties including 'The Generous Gardener' and 'Lady of the Lake' transform walls and fences with cascades of old garden rose-inspired blooms.