Lovely garden. A few tips. Don't spray the roses in the evening as it will easily get blackspot and other nasty stuff as it won't dry out during the night, just spray it in the morning if ever. Also, your climbers are not meant to be pruned really - you need to let them grow those long stems and then tie them horisontally so they can put on more flowers. Otherwise you're just getting a few flowers at the very top - a generous gardener is a good example, try to put all of those stems to 0-45 degrees and they will shoot next year with lots of blooms. For shadier spots in the garden, you can try to install mirrors, either decorative ones or traffic lights style that will reflect some sun into the shadier spots to allow more healthier growth for the roses. Also, you can buy slow-release fertiliser granules (even Austin sells them) to feed your rose literally once a year in end-March, then you can give it some farmyard manure ( large £5 bag from the garden centre will cover all of your roses, just put a couple handful around the base of each plant in the spring) just to ensure your soil stays reach and holds moisture well. Your house is lovely and I do get why you prefer the pale colors but having bright accents in the garden can be also beneficial. Great video!

Summer gap fillers. Cosmos, dahlias, zinnias and salvias. Beautiful garden!

I love the flow and serenity that your garden offers. A suggestion to fill in the gaps for the shady areas could be Astilbe. There are so many different colors and sizes to choose from, and I have a white one in my garden that is constantly buzzing with pollinators! Love your videos!

I have recently been adding more roses into our permaculture-light garden space. They are amazing for beneficial insects, including our native Australian bees. After watching your video I was convinced I needed more David Austins! I started with a Pat Austin a few months ago, added a Jude the Obscure standard a few days ago. And have ordered Wollerton Old Hall as a bare root for winter to climb an arbor alongside a grape. I never thought I would enjoy a standard rose - most people seem to grow them all on their lonesome and they can look rather leggy and out of place. But tucked into a garden bed next to other plants, alongside a path, they are perfect for saving space and ensure the blooms are at head-height. Just loving it.

I have a suggestion for gaps! Chives! They're light and pretty and useful and keep bugs away. And easy to pull up in favour of something else when you're ready.

Lovely! We have a 30 year old Felicité Perpétue and love her, (Fell iss ih tay Perp ett you). We also love our Francis E Lester - you got a bargain there! She is vigorous, and beautiful with pretty hips. Fill the gaps with geraniums - can recommend Ger. Johnson’s Blue, and Ger. Kashmir Purple as good-doers!

Love some of the gap filler suggesting already like hydrangeas and cat mint. There's a variety called cats pajamas that grows short so it's good for the front of a border. Didn't see anyone menton daisies, cone flowers, penstemon (midnight masquerade is my favorite), yarrow (so so many colors and heights), day lilies, or sedum (autumn joy, rock n grow, lemonjade are my top 3). I don't know why it's taken me so long to find your channel given all the garden videos I watch, but I'm so happy I did! I will try to remember to like every video to help you come up more in the algorithm!

Hi sweet friend thank you so much for sharing your beautiful cottage garden with us all the beautiful roses all about your property you did a beautiful job on your video hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy and Debbie

My favorite rose that i used to grow, and which i will always miss, is an oldie called Little White Pet.

Love your skirt really nice!and your garden is lovely.

Your videos are not only inspiring, but they are like mini courses of practical gardening tips and do's and dont's. Very enjoyable and educational at the same time! Thank you!

I only just discovered your channel this morning and I’ve subscribed! When I watched a few of your latest videos heard you mention you would upload a rose tour “in a few weeks” and I thought “hmm I hope she uploads that soon” 🤔 What a lovely coincidence 🤗🌹 Love your garden and your home, very inspirational to someone saving to buy their first home with a large garden space!! Xx

Your Garden IS Beautifuuul... For the gaps, i would probably fill it in with all soorts of berries. Maybe less showy. But wonderful snacks. You can do all sorts of things with your rose petals aswel, besides composting

Gorgeous !! English roses and antiques are my passion. Sadly I lost my Pilgrim rose (the only one, it came all the way to me in Italy from DA in UK )Lovely to see yours.

I love David Austin roses 🌹

Japanese Anemone come in pink or white and do well in shade or sun. They flower late in the season

Try some hydrangea in your gaps. There are hydrangea plants that love shade and others that love sun. The Limelight series do very well in both. Years ago I lived in Crantock in Newquay. When you were showing your back garden it looked so much like our row house. You have a lovely garden. Karen in Kansas City, US.

Compassion is a wonderful rose , so very prolific .

For y0ur garden gaps I use Astilbe , ferns, columbine and hosta!! Love your roses! I have quite a few all in different shades of pink!!🌸🌸

Have you tried separating the petals, mixing it with crushed red sugar crystals, keeping it in a glass bowl under the sun for several days mixing it every day so that it forms one jam-like mass, and you eat it with butter! We call it "Gulkand" in India.

Beautiful garden! When you asked about filling in the gaps, I thought of currants, red or black. I like the plants, and the fruits are delicious. I make jams, sauces, pies, and wines with them.

Just lovely. Well done.

Like a dream-lovely garden

Writing a list of roses i want to get😍😍 I've ordered Winchester Cathedral, Olivia Rose Austin, and Princess Anne

So so beautiful, inspirational for my new cottage garden thank you !

All your roses are so beautiful!

Love your garden and share your passion of David Austin roses. 🌹 spring is coming. Yay!

thanks for the tour 🐞

Love the roses

Dear Mona, I really enjoyed your garden tour. I love roses so so much, especially blush pink and golden- peachy ones. Your garden is very beautiful. 💕🥰

Rose among roses

I really love all the views of our whole garden, and the roses are just so beautiful (:

So pretty. Your garden is beautiful

Recent subscriber on YT but have been following on IG for a while. So so glad that YT showed me this video. I absolutely adore these! They bring such a sense of calm, and the editing is so lovely. Thank you so much 😌

Love love pink roses

You sold me with orangey peachy yellowy color lol! Googling compassion climber. Lol!

Gorgeous ❤️

Love your style ❤

Hydrangeas would be perfect to fill those gaps! H. Paniculata are beautiful, they bloom in summer and can take full sun

Looking beautiful

As I watch your beautiful videos, I am transported into a Frances Hodges Burnett book with Tasha Tudor illustrations.❤

👏❤️❤️❤️Beautiful Garden

I love your garden. I like Brunnera macrophylla for filling in shady nooks. They have silver heart shaped leaves for most of the year with very pretty blue flowers in the spring that look like forget-me-nots. I usually plant them next to my hydrangeas.

Beautiful, beautiful garden and video!!! I would love to see clips of how the different flowers progress maybe a little nature asmr style? The explanations here were lovely but also I want to feel like I'm sitting in your garden just listening to the ambient sound. Just an idea!

I have just found your channel and it's very inspiring. I got plenty of ideas from you (even though my garden is really small). Thank you for this relaxing content.

I love your garden

300 subs today? oh man you're gonna be HUGE!!!!

Yellow roses are so so beautiful 😍 💛

I love your garden, it's magical. :-)

I think I've watched this video ten times, I love it! Your garden is so beautiful. I've added 5 roses to my garden this year, and I think I'll need a bigger garden if I want more😂

Roses do best on a clay soil . So a very good choice for your garden. Roses are my favourite flowers . K

Magical looking plot! I was so thrilled when you announced the Generous Gardener, she’s my current fav and was my first purchase from DA. Shame it wasn’t in flower for your video because it is the most enchanting rose, and it’s perfume! 😍

Your gardens are magnificent. I especially love the roses. Over the years I've probably had 50+ old English (David Austin roses). There's a great book if you can find used (believe its out of print) called Smith and Hawkins 100 English roses for the American gardener and goes over the ins/outs, loves, dislikes of so many of these roses. Gertrude Jekyll - tho hot pink so may not be a fave, is a lovely scented rose that's been harder to find of late... if you come across it. I live in a coastal environment so it's been a real hit/miss with some of the varieties (in some instances too much fog/shade for some). Thx you for sharing!

So beautiful girl and lovely garden ❤

I recently discovered your channel and have inhaled all your videos in the past few days. Your garden is so calm, lovely and inspiring; thank you for sharing it with us. I would agree with your observation that rose flower colours change from year to year, and I find that it is related to weather, but not the way one might think. In hotter summers bloom colour in our roses seems to be more saturated - not what I would really expect, as more sunshine should surely bleach out the colours faster? I wonder if it's also related to rainy and sunny springs, but I haven't managed to keep track of any correlation there. You mention having gaps in shady areas - are these damp shade, or the sort of dry shade that happens under trees? Suggestions would be different for each of these situations. For damp shade I'd agree with the other commenter who suggested hydrangeas - maybe the lacy ones rather than the more out-there mop heads. The flower luminosity of the white ones is amazing in the evening. Dry shade - you might get away with hostas given that your ducks will feast on the inevitable slugs! I'd avoid Japanese anemone, personally, as I've found them very invasive, though I haven't had them in shade, where they may be less thuggish. Dry shade has been good for spring bulbs, for me - snowdrops and crocuses are so lovely; unless you're all crocused out in other parts of the garden. Very best luck with all your plans; love from not-very-distant Gloucestershire!

Ben from North Lodge Cottage, has really good advice about growing Claire Austin - he says it is not a shrub and not a climber, so it is better to grow it up an obelisk or post, as it won't bend sideways as well as a normal climber. He has videos on KZfaq.

Your roses are beautiful…I’ve a few of the same ones ❤…try out a deep red like William Shakespeare….its rich and delicious ….try some Thalictrum …whispy and beautiful or Diascia …the tall pink perennial one …cuttings take ridiculously easy…I also love sanguisorba

I really love rose hips. Some time would you show us how the rose hips look in the winter?

Pruning makes Roses grow ! K

I think you need more sunlight. I live in a woodland but somehow i manage to find light. My DA roses do pretty well I have about 20 I think (i live about 20 mins away from DA) the ones of mine that don't do so well is lack of sun they really do need about five hours a day but I hate cutting back trees. I keep seeking pockets of light ☀️ .

The Coral bells is a good plant for part shade it works out really really pretty and it comes back every year so yeah that would be a good one try it okay good watching your show okay bye

Lovely tranquil garden. Another superb climbing rose is Mme Alfred Carriere, probably the very best rose for growing in shade. It's an old Noisette rose, is creamy-white with a pink centre, fragrant and grows very readily from cuttings. Not sure whether you wanted suggestions for shrubs or for perennials but some perennials might be: salvia, catmint, lychnis, astrantia, penstemon, lady's mantle.

Pinky winky hydrangeas would be a good filler and can be pruned in Freeform or left as a shrub. They come in mini, mid an large shrub sizes.

I enjoy seeing your garden, especially the abundance of it all. I can't help but wonder, with so many flowers, greenery and grass - do you have any issues with wasps?

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Gap fillers hydrangeas! They are a perennial, can be quite large and hold their blooms from summer all the way through winter for great winter interest. Also in the super shade, hostas! I would also check your soil there, maybe there is a reason things aren't growing well.

I'm loving your roses and your garden. I too became intersted indavis Austin roses last year and have planted many. Some have done better than others but I must learn to be patient haha. May I ask what the beautiful pink flowering shrub/tree is opposite your Olivia standard in a pot? It's behind you as you are dead heading. It's beautiful x

Your garden is beautiful! Catmint would make a nice filler, and easily grows from seed!

❤lovely gardens😊😊since UK has a very wet & humid weather due to global warming, u need a greenhouse to protect all your DA roses from Black spot , Powdery Mildew & Kanker😊 buy a good fungicide ya or grow resistant varieties to sub-tropical weather in summer like # Evelyn by DA, # Duftjewel , # Fragrant Cloud, # Fragrant Plum, # Prosperity etc😊 Good luck! Liming with dolomites can neutralize a very acidic clay soil & u need to dig deep to remove all clay & dump in sandy compost with well drainage one ya😊

So beautiful! Your garden is lovely. I love my roses but a lot of mine have black spot and it’s a constant battle to keep it under control. It seems once they have it and it’s got into the soil, it’s almost impossible to get rid of. I don’t want to use fungicide or anything that will harm bees/wildlife, so I guess I’ll just have to live with it. I have a wishlist of David Austin roses - hopefully I can get some of them in the near future! 🌹

If your Pilgrim rose is a climber you can train it to go over the door and the window xx with climbers you can use the fan effect so main canes can go to the left and to the right and then you with get lateral growth from the canes. Lovely video xxx

This is my dream one day ☺️new subscriber!

Your roses are breathtaking! Thank you for sharing them , and for your tips on growing roses ! Very helpful. I’d love to learn about your rain barrel . What you think of yours , how to use it , any tips ? I really want to get one . I look forward to each video you make !!

Hello, I’m a new subscriber 👋

Lovely garden tour. Love your roses. I recently planted Gertrude Jekyll by David Austin. It’s a spectacular rose that you may love. Though it is a pink. I lean toward the pinks also. To fill the n the gaps perhaps some annuals or I love lavender in the garden. It’s great for bringing the pollinators in. Thanks for the fantastic tour. 🌸

I just discovered your channel and just love your style! I planted a David Austin James Galway and a Emily Bronte rose in my garden this year, and neither have bloomed. Maybe they need more sunlight? I am not sure. I will give them another year to see how they do before I move them.

Lovely garden. May I recommend 'Sweet Honey' to you. No scent but otherwise amazing! I paid £7 for mine! ATB, Gav

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Black spot isn't spread by tools. It's everywhere in the air. I wouldn't worry. Roses hate competition. Don't under-plant roses in pots or in the ground with anything at all. It will slow them right down.

How beautiful, I have been trying to get the Mary 🌹 rose, my mum passed away recently and now they are not available for a few months 😞 does anyone know where you can get a Burma star rose ? For the U.K.? My grandfather was a fepow and I am desperate to get one

"Seagull" is not the same rose as "Rambling Rector". They look similar but are not the same rose.

Are you ramona on tiktok?