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Many friends who love to raise flowers and plants should raise monthly flowers, but in fact, the monthly season has appeared on the earth for 40 million years, and its delicate posture and romantic aroma have conquered the hearts of all people in ancient and modern China and abroad.
Like the rose that now represents love actually belongs to the same genus as the moon season, some people say that they can't tell the difference between roses and the moon season, in fact, in the West, the word Rose itself does not just refer to roses.
And roses, moon seasons and roses, all belong to the three major groups of rose plants, the popular sense of "rose" has become a common name for a variety of rose plants, in fact, as Shakespeare said: "What does it matter what is the name?" Even if the rose is not called a rose, it is still fragrant. ”
But if you really love roses, there is a kind of rose and a person you must not ignore, he is the "father of the British moon season" - David Austin and his David Austin rose, his story with roses, called by flower lovers "beautiful stories to remember in a lifetime", put in the heart, can be fragrant for a lifetime.
01. Rose Life|Open
A book of "Classical Garden Season" plunged David Austen into the charm of ancient roses, and thus formed a lifelong fate with roses.
Legend has it that the hanging gardens of Babylon were planted with roses, the Romans believed that roses were the embodiment of Venus, the goddess of love, Shakespeare praised roses in his most famous sonnets, and wars in history over roses, which became the national flower of England.
Austin began his lunar career at the age of 21, and most of the ancient roses could only bloom for one season, which was not competitive with the hybrid tea moon season that could bloom repeatedly in many seasons that had already been born at the time, so he targeted new varieties with good ornamentation, attractive aroma, repeated bloom in multiple seasons, and the shadow of ancient roses.
But the beginning of things is always accompanied by many twists and turns, because of inexperience, his first roses died of fungus infection in the flower field, and after more than ten years of diligent work in the flower field almost went bankrupt.
Finally, in 1961, he bred Constance Spray, but unfortunately this variety did not amaze the eyes of the world at that time, and even the seedling merchants at that time were not optimistic about this fledgling small breeder.
But how could the persistent David Austin stop, he decided to become his own dream builder!
He then established his first monthly commercial sector in his native town of Šproshire: he produced and sold his own home, the kitchen became his distribution centre, and he began selling seasonal varieties such as ancient roses.
He called this new type of rose he cultivated "English rose" because roses have extraordinary significance in British history, and he believes that combining culture with roses is the true meaning of his dream.
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Success always favors those who keep trying, and in 1983, at the age of 57, David Austin took part in the Chelsea Flower Show for the first time and introduced three of his own breeds.
Among them, the classic monthly variety Graham Thomas, not only has the unique flower type and rich fragrance of classical garden roses, but also inherits the classic Gallic rose, Alba rose and Damascus rose, while combining the gorgeous multiple petals and rich color characteristics of modern roses, and the disease resistance is also very good.
Since then, he has become famous in the war, the unique British monthly season has received rave reviews, the classical monthly season has ushered in a revival, and David Austin has opened a new chapter of his rose.
It is said that Austin cultivates about 250,000 seedlings a year in experiments alone, and the most expensive rose variety in the world is Juliet, one of David Austin's masterpieces, and he spent $5 million to cultivate this rose over 15 years.
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Austen wasn't a dreamer, and his love for roses was reflected in "spending a lifetime nurturing the perfect rose you wanted" so that it could bloom all over the world.
To this end, he not only focused on the breeding of the monthly season, but also set his sights on redefining the British monthly season and the English garden.
He built a David Austin rose garden in Albrighton, which was awarded the title of "World's Best Rose Garden" by the World Rose Association Alliance in 2015, and has become the ultimate dream of rose lovers around the world, receiving hundreds of pilgrims every day.
In addition to his love of roses, he also loves literature, and most of Austin's varieties are named after English literature or in honor of famous British figures.
These carry his memories of the world, his country, and his hometown, and he harmonized the rose cultivation cause with the national culture to create a truly "rose kingdom" that belongs to him.
Although the Austin Season has never been officially recognized as a separate monthly variety, on many occasions or in British horticultural circles (such as the Royal Rose Society), it has become customary to refer to the month season he bred as the "English Month" or "English Month".
David Austin was awarded the Victorian Medal of Honour by the Royal Horticultural Society and the Dean Hole Medal from the Royal Rose Society in 2003 for his outstanding contributions to monthly breeding; In 2004 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Garden Centre Association; He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2007 and is considered one of the greatest breeders in the world.
He has bred more than 200 famous breeds and won 43 international awards, which no one can match, even the Queen of England is his big fan.
No one would have thought that the once immature boy would become the father of the British monthly season and promote the British monthly season to the world, so that the enthusiasm and persistence throughout his life created his successful rose life, and people were in awe of his tenacious spirit and unswerving original intention!
This "David Austin's Enchanting English Rose" is the only collection of his domestic books, containing the 100 most classic British roses in his life, which can be called the British rose bible.
The book not only describes his journey of combining classical roses with modern roses, but also tells the historical origin and naming origin of roses, and when you read this book, it is like flipping through the life of British roses.
Dr. Kuan's exclusive interpretation of this book, from David Austin's rose breeding road, on the other hand, Chinese's pursuit of inspiration and beauty of flowers seems to never stop, but in a subdivision field, how to connect a nation's heritage culture with the world, and form a sufficiently rational and tenacious centripetal force, will become a road behind every beautiful ideal, people explore a road, and it is also worth thinking about.
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