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English Roses from left to right on each row: Susan Williams-Ellis® (Ausquirk), Vanessa Bell® (Auseasel), Scarborough Fair (Ausoran), Bare Root Rose £21.50 Potted Rose £30.00.

Create a textured tapestry of colour inspired by great craftswomen, poets and songwriters. From Mary Delany, famous for her floral decoupage, to Vanessa Bell, artist and pioneer of the Bloomsbury group and Susan Williams-Ellis, founder of Portmerion Pottery.

English Roses from left to right on each row: Tottering-by-Gently® (Auscartoon), Bring Me Sunshine (Ausernie), Gertrude Jekyll® (Ausbord). Bare Root Roses from £21.50 Potted Roses from £30.00.

SPOTLIGHT ON MARY DELANY ™ (Ausorts)

English Climbing Rose 12ft (3.75m) BEST FOR FLOWERING BEST FOR HEALTH

An unusual climber with beautifully detailed light pink flowers and dark stems

BLOOM Her blooms are delicate and layered with an unusual loosely double formation creating an airy, pleasant effect with a soft intricacy to each bloom. Starting as dainty pointed buds, there is depth and detail to their light pink structure, enhanced by the deeper colour found at the centre of the bloom, the decorative golden stamens visible as the flowers open.

BEHIND HER NAME Named after Mary Delany, an English artist and keen gardener, known for her botanical drawings and detailed decoupage. Using layers of carefully cut tissue paper she would carefully construct intricate and botanically accurate paper flowers.

FRAGRANCE She has a light-medium Old Rose scent with a hint of fruits which suits her unusual but classic style, adding to her beauty.

HOW TO USE HER A skilled multi-tasker, she is exceptionally healthy and almost thornless with relatively small dark green leaves which complement her slender dark stems. Her mediumsized flowers are produced generously in large open sprays over a long season. For these reasons she is the perfect accompaniment to any doorway, wall or fence and will also display fabulously on a pillar or obelisk.

Wollerton Old Hall, Shropshire

OUTSTANDING OUTBUILDINGS Any type of outbuilding can be outstanding. From small sheds and garages to carports and home offices, a rambling rose or climbing rose trained along the roof or up a wall or pillar can transform the simplest structure into a wonderful garden room. A simple and cost effect way to update your outdoor spaces.

Francis E. Lester Rambling Rose BEST FOR FRAGRANCE

A beautiful tall rambler growing upto 20ft, smothered with huge bunches of small, single blooms. These are blush white, delicately tinted with pale pink at the edges, later becoming almost pure white, and creating the impression of apple blossom. He has a strong, pleasing musky fragrance, which carries over a wide area. Producing masses of small, oval, orange-red hips in the autumn, his growth is strong and bushy with elegant, pointed, glossy dark green foliage.