I showed this video to several people who don't care about roses and they loved it. My husband said, "I guess it doesn't matter if you're interested in the topic or what it is, watching someone who is truly passionate about something is infectious and entertaining to watch".

gosh how fortunate you are to have so many lovely roses! picking favorites must be akin to picking a favorite child or pet, haha..cheers

Must be very pleasing to have a garden full with these beauties 👍🙂

I just planted three of the jubilee celebration in a triangle. I’m so excited.

I ve planted more than 30 roses this year. Thank you for these videos and recommendations.

You put the flowers in the bottle very carefully for us to see up close. I like your introduction and like your beautiful roses. 

I like that you are very thorough in your review not just the strong points but also their weaknesses.

Wow! These Austins are drop-dead gorgeous! Glad to see the company taking measures to improve the shrub architecture, stronger stems and disease resistance on the newer releases and garden varieties 🌹

Thank you for sharing your top 11 (15) of your favorite David Austen roses! 🌹 🌹💐...

I love your video I think I watch it like at least 5 times already. Thanks for good tips.

A fantastic selection 🍃🌹🍃

I was somewhat disepointed before you brought princess Alexandra of Kent to stage. I New you would! You made me lol🤩 ❤️👏🏻 Thank you for your top 10+! 👍🏻

Fantastic knowledge thankyou

amazing

Hello Ben, thank you for your great video. We have a natural garden with many David Austin Roses. They are amazing. Last year we got new neighbours on the west side of the garden. So I had to move the fence and all plants. 3 month hard work for us…but this year we can enjoy all of our old plants and 7 of your recommended roses. Country parson is my favorite, best performance in the first year and an amazing scent. Emma Hamilton and Ben Austin have been flowering more than the last years. Best regards Karina

Great video Ben, love those Roses ❤

My climate in the US is different but I enjoyed the video very much. Interestingly, Scepter d'Isle is my very, very favorite David Austin and the blooms are the visual equivalent of angels singing. It does not ball for me at all but Happy Child balls terribly here. Lady Emma Hamilton, despite the fabulous color, was my weakest performer and it died this year. I hardly ever kill roses but it was a weakling here. I have several others but Scepter d'Isle is my favorite and it isn't close!

Love this video. I can feel your joy across the screen! 🥰😍

WOW I love it

I don't blame you! I can't do top 10 too. 😅😂 They're all so beautiful ❤️.

Dear Ben! Really nice and very useful video ! Will be gread to have label/ names of varieties. Thank you.

The first one you said. Lady Austin..😊 my facorite is new dawn. Love that one!

Hello Ben! I’m here in dinky Wills Point, Texas. I have 5 acres to play with and boy am I in trouble I want them all! I ordered Roald Dahl standard, Olivia, Gertrude Jekyll and Gabriel Oak. I’m thinking of combining Olivia with Gabriel oak in a pot. I have quite a few antique roses as well Souvenir de la Malmaison climber, Mlle De Sombreuil climber which are two excellent performers here in Texas. Thank you so much for taking the time to show us your beautiful roses. I have to get Emma when she becomes available what a stunner!

So glad I found your video. It’s exactly what I needed to help me decide which roses I want for my garden. Many thanks 🙏 ( only problem is I want them all !)

Ben, It would be fantastic to see all the David Austin roses that you have in your garden. For those of us who don’t have the space to plant them all would be a great treat😀. I live in Bay Area of California with limited garden space. Have been growing DA roses for over ten years.

god bless you more

I was a bit deflated until you added # 11 😂….So happy that added Princess “Alexandria of Kent” to your list! My first David Austin Rose and I just love it!!

I just bought your number 1 yesterday!! My second rose ever. I'm in love with it!

Thank you for your video! It helped me to decided, all of them are so beautiful!! I'll go for the Lady Hamilton first ♡ greetings from Argentina

So interesting review and beautiful roses!🌹

Die 🌹 sind Traumhaft schön! Danke für das Teilen

Thank you for this video! I have roses planted: Desdemona, Crown Princess Margareta, Charlotte, Harlow Carr, Charles Darwin, Roald Dahl, Glamis Castle, Tranquillity. Roses freeze to the ground level (I live in climate zone 4a). In the spring they grow and bloom beautifully.

Watching your channel from Korea! Thanks for sharing lot of info! Can’t wait for spring✨

Just bought my first David Austin rose, literally can’t wait to see it flower. I have ‘Olivia rose’

Wow. They are beautiful

I don't know how you ended up on my feed but I'm glad you did! I enjoy your videos and appreciate the info. Somehow, out of all the videos I've seen people showing their DA roses, yours has me seeing the beautiful colors, texture and size of them. It gets me excited! I bought Olivia Austin and Roald Dahl and I look forward to seeing them grow.

I bought 5 Princess Alexandra of Kent last year, really looking forward to their flowering, not had that one before. I had about the same quantity as you many years ago, now again have space so building up a collection in our communal garden. I also currently have Roseraie de l’hay, Port Sunlight, Penelope, Shropshire Lass, Cornelia and another yellow one that was already here and I’ve forgotten the name! I only buy scented ones, to me that’s an essential part of these. But I never met a bad DA rose 😊

I just love Constant Spry just wish it bloomed more than once.It’s scent is amazing 😊Sandra Hall

Hello Ben, thank you for the list. All of these roses are so beautyful. I have a small garden with a mix of Kordes, Mailland, Tantau and David Austin roses. From David Austin are „Munstead Wood“ and „Lady of Shalott“ . Both where planed last october. On my list are: „Scepter d Island“, „Golden Celebration“ and „Eustacia Vye".😍 But „Emily Bronte" is also a beauty and, and, and……………………😟😉

I am so happy to see your video. Bought 2 variety of your rose which are growing healthy. I am waiting for October to buy more roses. Your list has given me ideas to choose. Thanks you DA

Wow! I just bought Alnwick and Tess of the Dubervilles. Can’t wait for those roses

I have Jubilee Celebration and just got it in January. It is currently in bloom with over 20 buds! I am in Southern Arizona and this rose and Abraham Darby perform the best in our heat and strong sun.

Amazing video! Thank you for sharing your expertise!

Good information… thank you😊

My lady Emma is absolutely my favorite rose. You have amazing taste

Very insightful! Thank you for the recommendations

Thank you very much for displaying your gorgeous roses! They're all equally stunning !

Wow! Thank you for wonderful education 👏👏👏

my mother in law bought me a lady emma hamilton when we were out at a garden center. it is extremely gorgeous and the name fits it perfectly.

They all are so beautiful!

I start plant DA rose past three years. I was confused which rose is the best for my front porch and yard. Your recommendation are very helpful.

Thank you SOOO much for this video!!

Excellent video. Thank you

Wonderful advice for top ten pick! Thanks

Margie from usa- Ben, so glad to hear your description of each rose. I Love d.a. roses and have really been eyeballing princess anne of kent. I am looking forward to more videos. Thanks!

I really loved the review! Grettings from Finland , I try to grow roses here up North but we get -25C

Thank you, Ben! Princess Anne, Boscobel, Darcey Bussell, L. D. Braithwaiite, Jubilee Celebration and many more are my favorites. Magic roses!

I have 2/11 Scepter 'd Isle and Tranquility in my rose garden. Tranquillity has blooms nearly all the time and throws tall canes that needs support

Lady Emma Hamilton’s fragrance is one of a kind

Thank you Ben! So much good information on selected DA roses. I will watch the video again, this time with a notebook at hand.

Lady Hamilton is absolutely beautiful and definitely in my top 3. My personal favourite is munstead wood because I love deep colours so much. I love both for their scents. I always go for the best fragrance, it is very important to me.

I just recently found your videos and we love David Austin roses also. We have found your reviews very helpful. I was wondering if you have any videos dealing with soil, watering and pruning?

Love the affectionate way you describe each one. Also like the rose-lover’s maths: ten is never ten!

Can't fault you on your selection... 😍 Thanks for sharing!

I am addicted to Austin Roses! It’s really hard work to make top-10 of them 😅

My top roses are olivia, gentle hermione, spirit of freedom, bishop castle, wisley 2004,

Hello Ben - Quick one please, for scent alone would you pick Sceptre D Isle, Clare Austin or Jubilee Celebration? for a shady area. Many Thanks

Thank you for a nice list. I probably have to buy at least some of them for My Swedish Cottage Garden! I´ll promise to publish a video as soon as they start flowering 😀

Hermosísimas!!!

You are awesome to watch and we all appreciate your intensity and love for roses. I only have 3 David Austins and only one is in your top ten but it is Lady Emma. The other 2 are Munstead Wood and Boscobel. I am in South Florida so I needed heat resistant types that could hold up to our climate and not ball in the heavy rains and high humidity.

Fantastic, some really beautiful roses and I’ve not grown one of them! - I love David Austin roses and have grown many different varieties over the years. - but here are some more to try! This is what I love about them!

Hi Ben, Thanks 👍 for the recommendation ☺️ I bought some French, Japan & English roses to try under Malaysia's hot & dry summer now. My town has a bit of a microclimate as Rawang is in the much cooler Highlands but, our sun ☀️ & rain is unpredictable lately :( l am so worried.

Super!!!

You are so gorgeous

Watched everyone of your video! Absolutely enjoyed them. Thanks so much for doing this. Looking forward to seeing your next series 😍

Loved this. So much fantastic information.

Thank you so much Ben for this fabulous video, very informative. Totally agree with you about PAOK, she is amazing. If I could ask your advice please on a climbing rose for a standard size arch, I was considering St Swithin (I would love Generous Gardener but I think it would be too big) so I'm drawn to St Swithin. I really would like a strong scent and think this would work. If you could help I'd really appreciate it. Many thanks (Tina - Dublin, Ireland)

Really enjoyed this review thanku Ben! I'm with you on princess Anne I have 5 planted at the side of our blue/grey shed and the hot purple pink against the cool blue I love. I cannot wait to get Lady Emma Hamilton this year 😁 thanks again!

Really interesting to hear your comments Ben and to see the flowers in each case. I love David Austin roses. I have Scepter'd Isle, Princess Alexandra of Kent and Munstead Wood together in a large raised bed; Eustacia Vye and The Mayflower both new this year and in pots; the rambler Lady of the Lake, the Pilgrim, Teasing Georgia and Claire Austin growing alongside a fence; 5 Kew Gardens as a small hedge out front (no thorns to snag passersby!) and 2 others in the back garden one is a small pink climber and the other a large deep red shrub rose whose names I've sadly forgotten! Oh and Emily Brontë how could I forget her?! But a real favourite of mine is Wild Edric - have you come across him? He's a bit like a rugosa rose with cerise flowers that open fully with a really strong scent. He's incredibly robust and free flowering but he is large and packs some pretty vicious thorns so don't put him somewhere where you're going to have to squeeze past him because he will bite! I do love him inspite of that. He's usually first to flower and goes on for months. I've pretty much run out of space now, hence the 2 roses in pots, but your videos are very tempting - maybe I can persuade my husband to reduce the size of his shed!

They so beautiful, l realy like roses, One of my favorite Lady of shallot, and today got rose named alchemyst 😍

Lovely and super help video

Hello Ben, I wonder if you own any of Old DA roses, like Evelyn, Julia, Abraham Darby etc? Could you review those as those are still popular although not available via DA anymore xx

Excellent informative video, your passion for roses shines out. I will take your recommendation for Eustacia Vye. Looking forward to your next video, till then enjoy your garden.

I have nearly made your top 10 well 11 lol except for Crown Princess Margareta i dont have room for that stunning rose

Thank you so much for this. Seeing them in the bottles next to you helps to judge the sizes. I just planted a Gentle Hermione in my garden and the blooms are stunning. I highly recommend. The blooms are enormous and the scent is very strong. I think it might droop so I am going to prop her up with some canes. But I can't get enough. I love David Austen roses. I really want this years roses - Elizabeth and Bring Me Sunshine. Particularly the last one. I can't wait to get my hands on one.

Agree with Lady Emma Hamilton at number 1. One of the most delicious fragrant on a beautiful flower.

OMG Rose extravaganza!❤❤❤❤❤

Very inspiring. Many thanks from Holland.

I started planting David Austin roses this year and your videos are amazing! I got David Oak thanks to you, and already had The Lady Gardener. I am looking for a pink / salmon rose to plant in a container, but I can't decide between Boscobel, Eustacia Vye and Jubilee Celebration. Eustacia Vye seems to be the most recommended due to the amazing flowering and health, but I really go for the multicolored petals

Personally I like Munsted Wood. So Wild and Smells of Blackberrys

but Jude… love your garden and your advice! Cheers:)

Love you ... Thank you so much

I just ordered some golden celebration cuttings. I think the golden will pair well with my bottlebrush.

Started my rose obsession with a Clare Austin and I think I might be killing it 😭 Bought it bare and it started off amazing. 🤷

Very nice list! I have some of them. The Generous Gardener is probably my favorite. It seems to bloom over and over again, unlike many of the other climbers I have.

Thank you!! I live in the NE USA. I'm finally going to purchase some David Austin roses but my problem is I want them all!! I've been doing some research on these roses, as I do before I purchase anything. Tea roses are beautiful but the aphids and Japanese beetles destroy them. I'm hoping I don't have this issue with DA roses.

Hi I just found your channel/vid! ❤️ Love this vid and thank you for sharing your knowledge! I just liked and subscribed! My 2nd year having 2 David Austen roses (crown princess and Gertrude Jekyll) and I was glad to find your recommendations!

I love Lady Emma Hamilton too

Could you give a review of Gabriel Oak and Munstead Wood please. Why didn’t they make the top 10 or 15?

This channel is amazing! Well done ! Please could you review Gabriel Oak, Golden Celebration, Summer song and Pilgim roses? XxThank you and take care x I have soft spot for Grace and Jubieliee Celebration because of flower and pettal shapes, they are perfect!