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"No plant breeder could have been blessed with so wide a range of parent material as I was when I first set out to breed English roses in the early 1950s," says David Austin. Nonetheless, the roses that his nursery has produced over the years have been breathtakingly beautiful; his mission to combine the distinctive looks and perfume of the old roses with the repeat-flowering and wide colour range of the modern roses has been overwhelmingly successful. At his nursery more than one million roses are grown for sale every year.See the full content of this document
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Winter Warmers ; Gardening News
In his new reference book, The English Roses (Conran Octopus), Austin presents a new and fascinating classification of his roses, which helps the reader appreciate their great diversity.
But above all it is a mouthwatering catalogue t...See the full content of this document
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