David Austin's English Roses A Growers Handbook

David Austin's crossing of the classic roses with modern hybrid teas and floribundas has led to a new style, which combines the open flower and the fragrance of old roses with the long flowering season of the moderns. This handbook describes how these roses behave in New Zealand gardens. It offers practical advice on selection, planting and transplanting, feeding, mulching, pruning, dead-heading, propagation from cuttings, and on control of pests and diseases. Drawings and diagrams illustrate the text, and there are two sections of colour plates. Foxing, wear on cover. 102 pages.