MAKING THE CUT
There’s a special pleasure in cutting flowers fresh from your own garden. That pleasure is tenfold when the flowers you cut grow in such abundance all season that taking some for the vase still leaves plenty in garden beds. For gardeners, this makes repeat-blooming garden roses an ideal cut-flower treat, with many considering David Austin’s fragrant English roses best of all.
“Wandering the garden, cutting shears in hand, feels nearly decadent once the English roses begin to bloom,” says Michael Marriott, the longtime technical director of David Austin Roses in Albrighton, UK. “But it’s not really decadent, when the roses you’re cutting are covered in blooms from early summer ’til frost.”
It’s the spontaneity of cutting from the garden that Marriott loves most:
