Roses from a Chelsea Flower Show winner

With Chelsea Flower Show in full swing, we are proud to have one of its most famous Gold Medal winner's flowers in our own gardens.

A winner of 24 Gold RSH Medals, David Austen's 190 rose cultivars are renowned across the world for their beautiful blooms, wonderful fragrances and diverse shapes and structures - from shrub to climbing, white to red, iceberg to Darcey Bussell roses.

Our love for his rose varieties can be seen all around our gardens. The garden of Griffin House is one example. Planted with over five different rose varieties, the centrepieces of the garden are the Wollerton, a climber, and the Hyde Hall rose. The Wollerton rose is one of the most fragrant David Austin English roses, due to it's strong, warm myrrh fragrance, and the Hyde Hall, named after the RHS' Essex estate, which produces sprays of mid pink rosette blooms.

If you weren't lucky enough to visit this year's Chelsea Flower show why not visit the rose garden at Wrest Park (an English Heritage site) at Silsoe in Bedfordshire where walking tours are available every Tuesday and Thursday at 11.30 and 13.30.