Abraham Darby Rose

Abraham Darby is a David Austin English rose which has been around for a while now. It is one of the strongest growing and most beautiful for New Zealand gardens.

I remember first seeing Abraham Darby some years ago, flowering in pots in a local display garden. I thought the colours were amazing, and I just had to buy three plants - greedy! I've already produced a fourth from a cutting (which is growing very well). The those three originals were shifted last year to an open sunny place in the Willow Tree Garden by the water race.

Abraham Darby grows large in New Zealand, and could easily use some support. Who was Abraham Darby? Apparently one of the founders of the Industrial Revolution...