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David Austin (1926 – 2018) was considered one the great rose breeders in the world and his legacy lives on in the roses he created that we can now enjoy in South Africa.

An English rose breeder, David Austin took the old garden roses with fragrance and only a seasonal flush of blooms and crossed them

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