David Austin Rose

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So I'm very new to attempting to garden, having moved to our house in 2018. My DGF passed away last year and so I bought this DA "Tranquility" rose. It was pure white when I planted a couple of days after his funeral in July. It's just bloomed again (which I'm happy about) but look! Pink tinges around the edges. Any ideas why has this happened?

No idea, how does it smell? Looks beautiful regardless

I think roses can do that sort of thing if they're stressed in some way - maybe the prolonged dry and sunny spell has something to do with it?
It's a very pretty effect anyway!

Is that the first flower of the year on that rose?

I’ve noticed that some David Austin roses do what I’d call a trial run where they chuck out a few slightly different coloured and shaped flowers at the start of the season before forming the flowers you’d expect to see.

May be it’s something like that?

Also some of their roses change throughout the season. I have one that has almost orange flowers in May/June, and much softer peachy-pink flowers later in the year.

Regardless the one you have is absolutely stunning!

I have Tranquility too. This time of year it is pale bronze yellow and later in the year it flowers much lighter. I think it is something to do with the light. My dining room table smell lovely as them this morning. It is not a very good photo but do yours look like this?

In size and shape they do @FLOrenze , but the buds on mine do have a pinky edge to them.

It is the first flower of the season, I'm just so happy I've not killed it! The one I've planted in memory of my little brother who I lost 9 months before is also about to bloom.

I quite like fiddling in the garden. I don't really know what I'm doing, but it's very therapeutic