Rosa Gabriel Oak®
David Austin Gabriel Oak Rose

Rosa Gabriel Oak®

£33.00

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Empathy Rootgrow Mycorrhizal Fungi, 60g
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Features

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The dark foliage of robust Rosa Gabriel Oak® (Auscrowd) creates a perfect foil for its large, free growing blooms (held on mulberry stems), the outer petals of which lighten in colour as they mature. Forming a well-rounded bush, it thrives as a specimen in a large container or en masse in borders.

Please note, our roses are available to purchase all year round, so depending on the time of year your rose may either arrive in bloom or have been pruned or deadheaded appropriately for the season.

Insights

David Austin named this rose after the stalwart hero of Thomas Hardy’s Victorian novel, 'Far from the Madding Crowd'. In this, the most optimistic of Hardy’s love stories, Gabriel Oak is portrayed as the enduring friend of the headstrong and beautiful farmer Bathsheba Everdene, whom, after many vicissitudes, he eventually marries.

Details
  • English shrub rose grown for flowers and scent
  • Flowering period: repeat, from late spring to first frost
  • Fully hardy
Planting
  • Classic plant for herbaceous border and containers
  • Enriched, well-drained soil
  • All aspects
  • Full sun
  • Exposed or sheltered
Care

Dig a hole larger than the root ball and loosen surrounding soil, sprinkle with Mycorrhizal Fungi to promote root growth, position rose, infill and water well. Deadhead spent blooms to promote new buds. Please see our Rose pruning guide - Shrub rose

Scent

Strong, fruity fragrance

David Austin Gabriel Oak Rose