Bare root rose season runs from November to April, making the cooler months a lovely time to introduce new roses to your garden. Whether you're planning a new border, adding to an existing collection or planting a climbing rose against a favourite wall, there is plenty to look forward to.

Across the year, you'll find two different forms of David Austin^® rose available. For much of the year, our potted roses are ready and waiting,  cut back and dormant during the cooler months, in leaf and growth through the warmer ones. Then, once the growing season draws to a close, our bare root roses come into their own, dug fresh from the field and sent out while fully dormant, just as English roses have been grown and shared for generations.

Bare root roses arrive simply, as stems and roots, quietly waiting for the garden to bring them to life. With care, they can transform into lush, flowering plants, filling a garden with colour, fragrance, and presence. Affordable, easy to handle, and a traditional favourite among gardeners, they offer both charm and reward.

Bare root climbing and rambling roses bring both structure and romance to the garden, offering a traditional and sustainable way to cover walls, fences, and arches with abundant blooms. Planted between autumn and early spring, these roses establish naturally through the cooler months, ready to send out vigorous new shoots when warmth returns. With a little preparation and care, they will reward you for many years with graceful growth and exquisite fragrance.

Bare root shrub roses are a perfect choice for growing in containers, offering beautiful, bushy growth and abundant, fragrant blooms throughout the summer and into autumn. Planting them in a pot allows gardeners without a garden bed to enjoy the elegance of English Roses, while giving the plant the freedom to establish strong roots in a controlled environment. By following a few careful steps, your rose will settle naturally and flourish for years to come.

Bare root shrub roses are a gardener’s delight, offering a traditional, sustainable, and rewarding way to add colour and fragrance to your garden. Delivered simply as stems and roots, they are designed to work in harmony with the seasons. Planted in autumn through to spring, they settle naturally into the soil over the colder months, ready to burst into life and reward you with blooms the following year. Easy to handle, they are a dependable choice for both new and experienced gardeners.

Growing without peat is a change many gardeners are becoming familiar with. Peat-free compost behaves a little differently from traditional compost, so it is quite natural to wonder whether your roses will grow and flower just as beautifully.

Roses are wonderfully resilient, and sometimes a change of position is all that is needed to help one flourish. Perhaps a border is being redesigned, a rose would benefit from more sunshine, or a much-loved plant simply needs a little more room.

Rambling Roses have a natural affinity with trees. Their long, vigorous stems can be encouraged upwards into the branches, where they gradually weave through the canopy and open their flowers amongst the leaves. As the rose matures, the effect becomes increasingly natural, with great trusses of bloom appearing high above the ground and tumbling softly from the branches.

It is perfectly possible to grow beautiful, healthy roses without routinely using chemical sprays. The key is to concentrate on the health of the rose and the garden around it, rather than trying to prevent every aphid, marked leaf or other sign of nature.

By the height of summer, many repeat flowering roses will already have given a wonderful display, with some moving through their second flush of flowers. As blooms begin to fade, a little thoughtful care can help keep plants looking their best and encourage further flowers to follow.

Tiny, elusive and surprisingly hungry, spider mites are one of the most common pests to appear on roses during warm, dry weather. Although they're difficult to spot, the damage they leave behind is much easier to recognise. Fortunately, once you know what to look for, they're straightforward to manage, especially when caught early.