David Austin® Wedding Roses and Garden Roses
Exploring Their Differences
David Austin® Roses are loved for their beauty and character, yet they serve two very different purposes. Our garden roses are created to live and flourish outdoors, returning year after year with timeless colour, fragrance and charm. Our Wedding Roses by contrast, are grown exclusively for the floral industry, crafted to create exquisite bouquets and floral arrangements for life’s most memorable moments.
Wedding Roses: Designed for Bouquets and Floral Arrangements
Our wedding roses, sometimes called cut roses, are bred and grown with floristry in mind. Grown under cover in equatorial climates to ensure year-round flowering, they offer long, straight stems, generous blooms and exceptional performance. Every detail has been considered to help floral designers create bouquets, centrepieces and installations that are truly breathtaking.
Think of the soft ivory ruffles of Leonora™ Auswagsy (US PP32531), the blush-toned romance of Juliet™ Ausjameson or the warm golden glow of Beatrice™ Auslevity US PP26365. Each is designed to hold its beauty from the first look down the aisle to the final dance. These are the roses of the moment, intended to be admired in the hand, in a bouquet, or as part of a floral story that defines your wedding day.
Garden Roses: For Life’s Everyday Romance
Our garden roses are designed for planting, growing and enjoying as part of your home and landscape. They weave themselves into the rhythm of the seasons, filling borders, arches and containers with abundant flowers and enchanting fragrance. These are roses that you live with, roses that greet you on summer mornings, catch raindrops on their petals and bloom faithfully, year after year.
Because garden roses are bred to grow naturally, their stems are often shorter and their shapes softer and more relaxed. They are not intended for floristry but for beauty in situ, where they can truly flourish and evolve over time.
For many couples, there is something profoundly meaningful in planting a garden rose that mirrors the ones they carried on their wedding day. It becomes a living reminder of love, creating a thread between one perfect moment and a lifetime of shared seasons.
Shared Heritage, Singular Purpose
Whether gracing your garden or starring in a bouquet, every David Austin rose is born from the same vision. Our founder, David C.H. Austin (left), dreamed of combining the charm and fragrance of old roses with the repeat flowering and colour range of modern varieties.
That vision lives on in every bloom, whether it is planted at the heart of your home and returning each year, or captured forever in your wedding photographs. Each rose may have its own purpose, but both share the same spirit: to bring beauty, joy and unforgettable memories to life.
Let Us Help You Choose the Perfect Roses
Whether you are planting a rose to commemorate your wedding day, selecting a living legacy for your garden, dreaming of wedding flowers that will take your guests’ breath away, we are here to help, because every chapter of life deserves its own perfect rose.
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Growing a Love of Roses with ChildrenGuest blog by Helen Cross - Author, Journalist, Presenter, and School Gardening Champion. At the start of every gardening session with a new group of children, I always ask them what flower, fruit, or vegetable they would like to grow in their school garden. You might be surprised, but over the last five years, three or four out of every ten children have told me they want to grow roses.Read more2 days ago -
David Austin® Wedding Roses and Garden Roses: Exploring Their DifferencesDavid Austin® Roses are loved for their beauty and character, yet they serve two very different purposes. Our garden roses are created to live and flourish outdoors, returning year after year with timeless colour, fragrance and charm. Our Wedding Roses by contrast, are grown exclusively for the floral industry, crafted to create exquisite bouquets and floral arrangements for life’s most memorable moments.Read more16 days ago -
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