When it comes to English Roses it is assumed that they are the roses of David Charles Austin, botanist, writer and one of the most important English hybridizers recently passed away. In his roses he blends ancient and modern hints. They are reflowering roses, very healthy and very vigorous like modern roses (even if they love the English climate more than the Mediterranean one), but they often bear very large flowers, with many petals and a shape reminiscent of ancient roses.
“Jude the Obscure” with its cup-shaped corollas, the curving apricot-yellow petals and the strong citrus scent speaks to us of the sun. For this reason he won the Perfume Award in Monza in 1996. David Austin likes to baptize his roses with the name of literary characters. Jude the Obscure is the main character in the novel of the same name by Thomas Hardy, an English writer of the nineteenth century. This area of the Rose Garden is the area of large and very decorative shrubs, suitable for spacious gardens, which are pruned very little at the beginning of the season, to allow them to develop in free form.