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19th March 2025

Rosa Gertrude Jekyll is understandably one of the best-known and most popular of the David Austin roses; it has a beautiful shape and colour, a wonderful fragrance, is easy to grow and very reliable. It was introduced in 1986, and is named after one of the renowned English designer who created or advised on more than 400 gardens (and was the sister-in-law of Agnes Jekyll). 

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