Rosa ‘Gertrude Jekyll’
Jun 16, 2021
2 minutes
by David Austin
Jack Watkins
‘One of its most esteemed characteristics is its scent, “a proper Old Rose fragrance”’
WHEN he was interviewed a few months before his death at the age of 92 in 2018, nurseryman David Austin, dubbed the ‘Father of English Roses’, marvelled at his fortune in having ‘been able to make a life out of breeding roses’.
The son of a Shropshire farmer, he had already developed an
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