{"id":91562,"date":"2018-06-16T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-peek-inside-the-garden-of-the-uks-top-rose-breeder-jane-perrone\/"},"modified":"2018-06-16T17:03:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T10:03:02","slug":"a-peek-inside-the-garden-of-the-uks-top-rose-breeder-jane-perrone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-peek-inside-the-garden-of-the-uks-top-rose-breeder-jane-perrone\/","title":{"rendered":"A peek inside the garden of the UK\u2019s top rose breeder | Jane Perrone"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe rose expert on the wonder of a career spent breeding his favourite flowers \u2013 and finally having his own rose garden, at the age of 92Look at a rose bred by David Austin and you may assume it has been wreathing cottage doorways and filling vases since time immemorial. And yet Austin\u2019s blooms, known as English roses, burst on to the scene only in the 1960s. Over many decades, he learned to cross the beauty and fragrance of the genuinely old rose species \u2013 the musks and the gallicas \u2013 with the disease-resistance and repeat flowering of roses bred in the modern age.At first, nurseries would not sell them \u2013 they were seen as old-fashioned \u2013 but Austin persisted, breeding more than 200 new varieties in the past few decades. In the process, he slowly but surely changed horticulture\u2019s obsession with the stiff, scentless formality of the hybrid tea rose, embracing instead the softer, scented pastel shades that are now his signature style. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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