Walking in the garden we are time and again drawn to this lovely creeature, surely one of the most perfect roses ever bred, beautiful at every stage. She started life in a large pot, was beautiful there, but now transferred to open ground is unbeatable.

I’m not a ‘good’ gardener & don’t have much of a clue but…my Olivia Rose Austin hedge’ planted against part of the house are incredible. Planted as an afterthought in very little soil, more house ‘footings’ than anything else, never fed in the 5 years since planting, never watered, but worst of all never properly pruned; I deadhead them occasionally. Now two of the plants are over 7’ high and writing this review on 19th April, there are many already in flower, not in bud, in actual flower.

This is the second i bought - it is fabulous

Healthy rose now planted and doing well so far.

Suffers terrible black spot. Planted in large container in full sun so it’s possibly stressed. In third year will be feeding throughout summer more often to see if helps although there’s no suggestion for this on the David Austin website. Perhaps there should be.