The story behind The King’s Rose (Ausa27a16) begins with a simple connection at the Chelsea Flower Show in the 1990s, when David Austin and His Majesty King Charles III discovered they’d both grown the same distinctive striped rose, Ferdinand Pichard. Years later, when a new rose bloomed with a similar pattern, that memory returned. It felt fitting to honour His Majesty’s work through The King's Foundation, not just with a name but with something that could support a much larger cause: a shared
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The story behind The King’s Rose (Ausa27a16) begins with a simple connection at the Chelsea Flower Show in the 1990s, when David Austin and His Majesty King Charles III discovered they’d both grown the same distinctive striped rose, Ferdinand Pichard. Years later, when a new rose bloomed with a similar pattern, that memory returned. It felt fitting to honour His Majesty’s work through The King's Foundation, not just with a name but with something that could support a much larger cause: a shared
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