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Plant: Rose - David Austin Varieties
Rose · Rosa spp.
Size: 3 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
David Austin English roses combine the full petalled form and the old rose, fruity, tea, myrrh and musk fragrances of old garden roses with the wider colour range and repeat flowering habit of modern roses, and are selected for health, reliability and vigour. Shrub forms run from about 2 feet for the small varieties to 5 feet and more for the largest, with climbing forms reaching 8 to 10 feet or more. Their graceful shrubby habit suits mixed borders, large containers, rose gardens and hedges. Like all roses they want a full day of sun, at least six to eight hours, and loose, organically rich, well drained soil, with late winter pruning and regular deadheading.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 5 ft tall and 6 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer, fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
David Austin English roses combine the full petalled form and the old rose, fruity, tea, myrrh and musk fragrances of old garden roses with the wider colour range and repeat flowering habit of modern roses, and are selected for health, reliability and vigour. Shrub forms run from about 2 feet for the small varieties to 5 feet and more for the largest, with climbing forms reaching 8 to 10 feet or more. Their graceful shrubby habit suits mixed borders, large containers, rose gardens and hedges. Like all roses they want a full day of sun, at least six to eight hours, and loose, organically rich, well drained soil, with late winter pruning and regular deadheading.
- Flowers
- Flowers are often fragrant.
- Foliage
- Leaves are alternate and pinnately compound with serrate margins.
- Fruit
- Fruits are called hips, though the true fruits are the hard achenes inside the hips.
- Bark & stems
- The sharp structures on the stems are prickles, not true thorns, and they vary in size and abundance.
- Pruning
- Most roses require yearly pruning in late winter.
- Native range
- Native to the temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere, including North America, Europe and Asia.
