Honey Yellow Rose

This honey yellow rose is a most successful roses for a country garden, blending the old-fashioned look with robust growth and repeat flowering. I grow it on the hitching rail by the Stables. I used to think it was the David Austin rose Windrush - wrong!

Soft Golden Yellow

The flowers are semi-double, a soft golden yellow, with prominent darker stamens. The colours remind me of honey on toast. This rose has extremely pointy buds, too, and they are quite coppery-apricot in colour.

For more than ten years I've incorrectly named it 'Windrush'. But I've been oh so wrong! Oops... But just maybe I can blame the rose nursery - more than once they've got the rose labels wrong...

Update - 2010

Some roses come and go in my garden, some delight and others disappoint. The honey yellow rose is still featuring, a five-star rose in my late spring garden. And so healthy - I've never squashed a single aphid on it, nor have I ever seen a black spot on any of its shiny green leaves. Even though my rose spraying programme is fairly non-existent...

I've had to go all through my records and stop it being called Windrush. Sorry about that. If anyone thinks they do know the name, I'd be so grateful.

I particularly like the naturalness of this rose - in one cluster there'll be buds waiting, blooms in full flush, and older flowers drooping, their time in the sun finished. It's a big rose but not too big - just perfect!