David Austin Roses

Breeding Exquisite English Roses Since 1961

For almost 60 years David Austin has been breeding exquisite English Roses. Renowned for their beautiful, often many petalled, repeat flowering blooms and enticing, rich fragrances there are now over 200 rose varieties bred by David Austin, each one making a fantastic contribution to any garden.

Still Made By Hand

Today, most of our growing is still carried out by hand, just as it was at the very beginning. Every plant that we sell has been hand-budded, a traditional and intricate skill carried out by our experts millions of times each year.

A Lifetime Of Breeding Excellence

In the early 1950s David Austin set out to create a more beautiful rose. Sixty years on, this simple objective remains. Rose breeding is often described as being as much an art as a science.

All David Austin roses have a collective style and reflect one man’s vision. All have beautiful blooms and in most cases wonderful fragrance held on graceful attractive shrubs. A garden of these outstanding roses is hard to beat for sheer exuberance of flower and fragrance.

Breeding an English Rose

Breeding a new rose is a unique mix of art and science requiring patience and dedication. From pollination to sale, the whole process of creating a new English Rose takes 10 years.

Little Red Nursery will carry the following varieties this year ~ We are now accepting pre-orders via the form on our website or by contacting office personnel. Half-down is required at time of order.

CARDING MILL®

English Shrub Rose Bred

The blooms are a beautiful blend of pink, apricot and yellow, giving the overall impression of orange. They have a lovely myrrh fragrance. It forms a bushy, rounded shrub with quite straight stems.

DARCEY BUSSELL

(Ausdecorum) English Shrub Rose Bred

When young, the outer petals of each bloom form a perfect ring around an inner cup, gradually opening out to form a perfect, medium-large rosette. The color is a deep, rich crimson-pink, taking on a tinge of mauve just before the petals drop.

GRAHAM THOMAS®

(Ausmas) English Climbing Rose Bred

With its vigorous, upright growth, it makes a very good climber, both in beauty and performance. It bears medium-sized, cupped blooms of an unusually rich, pure shade of yellow. They have a light Tea fragrance.

LADY OF SHALOTT

(Ausnyson) English Shrub Rose Bred

Rich orange-red buds open to chalice-shaped blooms, filled with loosely arranged, orange petals. The surrounding outer petals are salmon-pink with beautifully contrasting golden-yellow undersides.

BEST FOR FLOWERING

LICHFIELD ANGEL

(Ausrelate) English Shrub Rose Bred

Pale peachy pink buds gradually open to form neatly cupped, cream rosettes. Each bloom has a perfect ring of waxy petals enclosing numerous smaller petals. Eventually the petals turn back to form a large, domed flower.

MOLINEUX

(Ausmol) English Shrub Rose Bred

Bears medium-sized neat rosette blooms – tinged with orange at first, quickly becoming rich yellow. It has a light-medium musky Tea Rose scent. The growth is compact, even and upright.

TEASING GEORGIA®

(Ausbaker) English Climbing Rose Bred

A particularly free-flowering climber, producing impressive displays of blooms into fall. The refined rosette flowers are rich yellow at the center, fading to palest yellow on the edges.

EMILY BRONTË

(Ausearnshaw) English Shrub Rose Bred

An exceptionally beautiful rose; the distinctive blooms are very neat and rather flat. Each bloom is a lovely soft pink, with a subtle apricot hue, the smaller central petals deepening to rich apricot and surrounding a button eye, which unfurls to reveal deep-set stamens. The strong Tea fragrance becomes more Old Rose, with delicious hints of lemon and grapefruit. It forms a bushy shrub with strong, healthy, upright growth.

BEST FOR HEALTH

BEST FOR FRAGRANCE

TRANQUILLITY

(Ausnoble) English Shrub Rose Bred

Beautifully rounded flowers, with neatly placed petals making up perfect rosettes. The buds are lightly tinged with yellow but as the flowers open they become pure white.

PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF KENT

(Ausmerchant) English Shrub Rose

The unusually large, bright pink flowers are full-petalled and deeply cupped. In spite
of their size, they are never clumsy, being held nicely poised on a well-rounded shrub.

BEST FOR FLOWERING

BEST FOR FRAGRANCE

Pre-Order

Little Red Nursery is proud to be carrying the following select varieties of David Austin Roses, available for pre-order by filling out and submitting this form. All pre-orders require half down with this form. Someone from Little Red Nursery office will reach out to you for payment after order is received. The remaining balance will be due when your order arrives.


ALL ROSES ARE $69.99 PLUS TAX (final total figured upon contact from LRN personnel)
DELIVERY ~ IF APPLICABLE $35.00 (delivery in Lubbock & surrounding areas up to 15 mile radius flat rate)
NUMBER ORDERED / VARIETY

DELIVERY FEE (flat rate of $35.00/see above)

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