The Five Rose Fragrance Profiles

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Did you know there are roughly 5 ‘families of fragrance’ that roses fall into? Rebecca breaks them down, with variety suggestions. Connect with Rebecca Koraytem: Rebecca Koraytem is a horticulturist at David Austin Roses, where she provides retail and technical support across the USA and Canada. David Austin Roses In this episode, The Five Rose Fragrance Profiles featuring Rebecca Koraytem and, Kevin Espiritu, the founder of Epic Gardening. As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I haven't smelled the roses.
0:14.7	We hear it all the time.
0:16.1	As a kid, I just didn't understand it.
0:18.0	I don't know why you would do something like that, of course, as a gardener.
0:21.6	Not only do I stop and smell the roses, but I stop and smell pretty much any flower on
0:25.5	a walk just to see if there's a little fragrance going on there.
0:28.3	With roses, obviously, that is a primary feature of why many of us grow them.
0:33.0	And fortunately, we have Rebecca Carratton back on the show, Horticulturist at David
0:36.7	Austin, roses.
0:38.2	Today, Rebecca, it sounds like there are five different sort of major fragrance profiles
0:44.3	that you can get into with roses, is that correct?
0:47.2	That absolutely is correct.
0:49.5	And you know, we even have folks who collect David Austin's that are now collecting them
0:56.6	and putting them in their garden specifically for those fragrance profiles.
1:02.2	So within the fragrance profiles, we actually rank them from a one, which is a very light
1:10.3	fragrance, all the way up to a five, which is a very strong fragrance.
1:17.3	So you would kind of think if you take two very fragrant parents and cross them, you're
1:24.7	going to get the most amazingly fragrant rose in the world, right, wrong.
1:31.2	Breeding for fragrance is incredibly elusive, and it's difficult to breed for.
1:39.5	So let's start out by talking about Mr. Austin's favorite fragrance, and that was old rose.
1:47.1	That came from kind of the old species roses that he loves so much, and it smells exactly
1:52.8	like what we think a rose should smell like.
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