Rose Care Advice & Inspiration
Roses are easy to grow and are remarkably tolerant. However, with a little extra care and attention your roses will really thrive. Follow the rose care advice guides created by our rose experts to help you look after your rose plants or be inspired by our show gardens and articles on how to best use roses within your garden.
Rose Care & Advice
Learn how to care for your roses with our step by step guides and top tips.
How to Feed a Rose
Feeding provides your rose with key nutrients to keep it healthy, allowing it to produce better blooms and resist pests and disease.
How to Mulch your Roses
Mulching is the addition of a protective layer around the base of your roses. This process helps roses to retain moisture, suppresses weeds and provides valuable nutrients for your roses as they grow.
How to Prune an Established Climbing Rose
Pruning is arguably the most important job you can do for your roses. It gives your rose shape, structure and encourages new blooms for the season ahead. In this video, our Head Gardener, Steve, will show you how to prune an established climbing rose. When we use the term ‘established’ we mean a rose that has flowered for two or more years.
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rose inspiration
Ideas on how to use roses within your own garden.
Roses Inspired by Great Women
Every single David Austin English Rose has its own unique character, each one beautiful in its own way. It is therefore unsurprising that many of our roses are named after great women.
Mixed Border Colour Scheme: Cool Pinks
Our how to video and planting guide show you how to combine light and bright pink roses with blue tones such as lavender and nepeta, silvery grasses and dark foliage.
Roses in Mixed Borders
Planting roses in a mixed border is one of the easiest ways of enjoying roses in your garden. Combine shrub roses, other shrubs, perennials and annuals to create a tapestry of different colours and textures.