{"id":103857,"date":"2019-02-10T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-man-who-put-romance-back-into-roses-for-valentines-day-allan-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2019-02-10T13:03:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T06:03:58","slug":"the-man-who-put-romance-back-into-roses-for-valentines-day-allan-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-man-who-put-romance-back-into-roses-for-valentines-day-allan-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"The man who put romance back into roses for Valentine\u2019s Day | Allan Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTry David Austin\u2019s colourful, fragrant and repeat-flowering roses for something personal, surprising and original on the 14thValentine\u2019s Day, when unromantic people splurge on overpriced roses and expensive restaurants. It doesn\u2019t have to be this way. Roses don\u2019t have to come in red buds and straight stems, they don\u2019t have to smell of desperation. For this we have to thank David Austin, the rose guru, who died at 92 on 18 December last year.Mr A, as his staff knew him, brought romance back to roses, creating the English Rose, a marriage between fragrant Old Roses and the repeat-flowering Hybrid Tea varieties which had largely replaced them before the young son of a Shropshire farmer decided to change all that. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Try David Austin\u2019s colourful, fragrant and repeat-flowering roses for something personal, surprising and original on...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-r17","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":102622,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/david-austin-obituary\/","url_meta":{"origin":103857,"position":0},"title":"David Austin obituary","date":"January 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Plantsman determined to breed a flower that combined the shape and fragrance of Old Roses with the modern Hybrid Tea varietyDavid Austin, who has died aged 92, put romance back into roses. 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