David Austin Roses For Canadian Gardens

David Austin roses are some of the most renowned and beloved roses in the world. Since the 1950s David Austin has been working to combine the beauty and romance of old roses with the performance of modern roses. More specifically his goal has been to bring together the flower forms and fragrance of old roses with the wider colour range and repeat-flowering of modern roses.

You need only look at the beautiful photographs and to grow and smell your first David Austin rose to understand that these English style roses are something special in the rose world. They will quickly grow into magnificent shrubs and climbers that will transform your garden with their old world charm, fragrance, and performance.

Characteristics of David Austin Roses:

  • Form: David Austin roses tend to grow as shapely shrubs with a bushy mounding or arching growth habit. The climbers are strong and vigorous usually with flowering down to the base.
  • Flowers: A wide range of colours with unique, cupped, old fashioned, multi-petaled, and often quartered blooms that change in colour beautifully as they age.
  • Fragrance: Renowned for their strong and diverse fragrances including old rose, tea, myrrh, fruit, and musk.
  • Repeat-flowering: Cultivars will repeat flower providing a long season of interest.
  • Design Potential: Highly versatile for different garden styles and uses including mixed flower beds, traditional rose borders, fragrant hedges, large pots and containers, for the cutting garden, and for large landscape plantings.
  • Health: Bred for vigour and garden performance with great disease resistance. Every cultivar is trialled under rigorous conditions for eight years before being introduced to the gardening public.

As with all roses, these cultivars prefer full to part sun for best flowering and overall performance. Some are tolerant of and will bloom reasonably in part shade which could describe a location with 3-4 hours of sun per day, a spot with dappled light throughout the day, or a position against a north wall that is open above with bright reflected light. Tolerance of part shade is noted in each of their descriptions below. Roses also prefer rich soils with added compost and fertilizer and ample deep waterings, especially during summer dry spells.

David Austin roses are rated as hardy to zones 4 or 5, depending on the cultivar. For tricks on how to grow these roses in colder zones than their official rating, read our article on “How to Grow David Austin Roses in Zone 3”.

And if you love the form and fragrance of these roses, remember that David Austin is certainly the most famous breeder of English style roses, but he is not the only one. Other breeders such as Kordes, Meilland, and Weeks have bred amazing English style roses with incredible forms, colours, and fragrance that very much deserve to rub shoulders with David Austin roses in your garden!

At Phoenix Perennials we offer one of Canada’s largest selections of David Austin roses with 50 or more cultivars each year for Canadian gardeners. We launch online pre-ordering as part of our Great Rose Pre-Order every fall or winter for the following spring with options for gardeners in Richmond, Greater Vancouver and beyond in British Columbia to pick-up your roses as potted plants at our Richmond, BC nursery or for bare root mail order shipping across Canada from March to early April as weather warms up in your region. You can also shop for roses in person at Phoenix Perennials through the spring, summer and fall.

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Have fun perusing the many cultivars of David Austin roses that we carry and selecting the perfect plants for your garden. Not all will be available each year but we’ll have most of them!

Thomas À Becket

Fragrant, informal rosettes combine with natural, shrubby growth

Light red, informal rosettes. Old rose fragrance with a distinct scent of lemon zest. Natural, shrubby growth. Particularly reliable and healthy. Very quick to repeat flower. Good disease resistance. Highly fragrant.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Crimson red
Fragrance Strength: Medium Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 5ftx4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 63 petals

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

A beautiful, red climbing rose with lovely old rose fragrance hardy to zone 4

Large, bright crimson blooms with beautiful old world charm. Good old rose fragrance. Flowers freely from early in the season until fall.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Climbing Rose
Sub Type: English Old Rose Hybrid
Color: Crimson red
Fragrance Strength: Medium Old Rose Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Average
Size: 6ft or allow to grow as a climber to 8-10ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 110 petals

Darcey Bussell

A compact shrub which flowers freely with excellent continuity

Beautiful, deep crimson rosettes with a delightful fruity fragrance. An exceptional variety which flowers freely and repeats well. Very healthy. Compact, bushy growth. Repeat flowering. Ideal for pots and containers. Ideal for hedging.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Shrub Rose
Color: Light red
Fragrance Strength: Light Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 4x3ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 80 petals

Munstead Wood

Luscious deep velvety crimson flowers with strong old rose and fruity fragrance

Light crimson buds gradually open to reveal very deep velvety crimson blooms. The flowers are large cups at first, becoming shallowly cupped with time. There is a strong Old Rose fragrance with warm, fruity notes of blackberry, blueberry and damson. The bushy, spreading growth forms a broad shrub.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Deep velvety crimson
Fragrance Strength: Strong, Old Rose/fruity
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 3×3.5ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 74 petals

Othello

Deep crimson flowers with a strong old rose fragrance

Othello is the classic English Rose with large, rich, deep crimson flowers with a strong Old Rose fragrance. The velvety crimson blooms of this well-known variety are produced in clusters and age to purple as they mature and are held atop upright stems, accompanied by dark-green foliage on bushy growth.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Deep crimson
Fragrance Strength: Strong, Old Rose
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 4×3.5ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 40+ petals

Gabriel Oak

Stunning deep pink to magenta red flowers with strong fruity fragrance, hardy to zone 4

Deep pink to magenta red blooms with strong fruity fragrance. The flowers are packed with 125 petals and can open to nearly four inches wide. This reblooming shrub has semi-glossy, medium green, leathery foliage. Hardy to zone 4.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Deep pink to magenta red
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 4ftx4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 125 petals

Sir John Betjeman

An amazing floral display of crimson red blooms packed with petals and light fragrance

Crimson red blooms with light fragrance that put on an amazing floral display. The striking rosetted flowers are packed with 130 petals. The flowers form in small clusters against dark green, leathery foliage.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Crimson red
Fragrance Strength: Light fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Very Good
Size: 4ftx4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 130 petals

Sophy's Rose

Classic old-fashioned English style elegance with two-tone flowers offering a light tea fragrance

A bold and beautiful reblooming cultivar with flowers opening to reddish pink aging to deep, glowing pink which creates a two-tone effect as these beautiful shrubs bloom and rebloom through the season. The flowers have a classic old-fashioned English style shape with masses of small petals at the centre gradually becoming larger towards the outer edges. Light tea fragrance.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Reddish pink to glowing deep pink
Fragrance Strength: Light fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Very Good
Size: 4ftx4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 80 petals

James L. Austin

A rose of great beauty, with large rosette blooms

Bears large, many petalled, deep pink rosettes, each with a button eye. There is a light-medium strength fruity fragrance. It forms a neat and tidy shrub with a bushy, upright habit. Named for the son of David Austin Senior and brother of David Austin Junior.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Deep pink
Fragrance Strength: Light to Medium Fruity Fragrance
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 4×3ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: High

Princess Anne

Multicolour, fragrant pink flowers change as they age, hardy to zone 4

Young flowers open glowing magenta-pink fading to rich pink and lavender pink. The petals are narrow with a substantial constitution and a hint of yellow on the undersides. Flowers are held in large, fragrant clusters produced liberally all season long. Excellent disease resistance with glossy, thick foliage.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Rich pink
Fragrance Strength: Medium Tea Fragrance
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 4×4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 85 petals

Boscobel

Perfectly formed, beautifully fragrant, upward-facing blooms

Perfectly formed, rich salmon rosettes. A beautifully complex myrrh fragrance. Very healthy, with vigorous, upright, bushy growth. Good for disease resistance. Repeat flowering. Exceptional fragrance.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Rich salmon
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 4x4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 78 petals

Benjamin Britten

A variety of unusual colouring with an intensely fruity fragrance and hardiness to zone 4

Glowing, deep red-pink rosette-shaped blooms. Lovely, intensely fruity fragrance with hints of wine and pear drops. Very healthy with vigorous, bushy growth. Repeat flowering. Highly fragrant. Ideal for pots and containers.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Red pink
Fragrance Strength: Medium Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 4.5×2.5ft or allow to grow as a climber to 8-10ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 60 petals

Brother Cadfael

Clear pink globular flowers with strong old rose fragrance 

Lovely clear pink blooms with a rounded, shape and lightly ruffled petals offering a strong old rose fragrance. It has deeply cupped flowers packed with 40 or more petals. This shrub rose is popular for its large, peony-like blooms and amazing fragrance.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Pink
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 5ftx4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 45 petals

Gertrude Jekyll

Twice voted England’s favourite rose with beautiful flowers and hardiness to zone 4

Beautiful, rich pink rosettes with the quintessential Old Rose fragrance: superb, strong and perfectly balanced. Very healthy and reliable. Repeat flowering. Exceptional fragrance. Voted England’s favourite rose by BBC Gardener’s World viewers.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Shrub or Climbing Rose
Color: Rich pink
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 5×3.5ft or allow to grow as a climber to 8-10ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 80 petals

Mary Rose

An old favourite amongst David Austin cultivars with ruffled, loose flowers with old rose fragrance, hardy to zone 4

Beautiful mid pink flowers open into lovely cups filled with ruffly petals. As the flowers age, the cups open more and the flowers become more ruffly for a more relaxed look in the garden. Delicious fragrance of old rose with hints of honey and almond blossom. Nice foliage.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Mid pink
Fragrance Strength: Medium to Strong Old rose Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 4x4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 60 petals

Harlow Carr

A tough little rose with strongly fragrant rosette blooms and hardiness to zone 4

Perfectly formed, pure pink rosette blooms, which are produced very freely and have a strong Old Rose fragrance. Attractive, bushy growth. Exceptionally healthy. Good for disease resistance. Repeat flowering. Exceptional fragrance.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Rose pink
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 4x3ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 120 petals

Princess Alexandra of Kent

Magnificent blooms with a delicious award-winning fragrance hardy to zone 4

A magnificent rose with large, deeply cupped blooms of warm, glowing pink. There is delicious fresh tea fragrance with aspects of lemon and blackcurrants. Very healthy and disease resistant. Repeat flowering. Highly fragrant. Ideal for pots and containers.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Sub Type: English Old Rose Hybrid
Color: Warm pink
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 5x4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 130 petals

Olivia Rose Austin

An all around excellent cultivar with fragrant rosette blooms, hardy to zone 4

Shallowly cupped, soft pink rosettes. Strong, pleasing, fruity fragrance. Vigorous growth and repeat flowers well. Exceptionally healthy with good disease resistance. Repeat flowering. Highly fragrant.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Sub Type: English Leander Hybrid
Color: Mid pink
Fragrance Strength: Light to Medium Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 6×5ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 90 petals

A Shropshire Lad

A gorgeous climbing rose with lovely tea scent. 

Large, cupped, light peach-pink rosettes, with a fruity tea scent. Vigorous, with plentiful dark green foliage.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Pale pink
Fragrance Strength: Strong, Old Rose
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 5×4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 140 petals

Queen of Sweden

A large shrub rose with apricot buds opening to soft pink flowers with a lovely myrrh fragrance, hardy to zone 4

Delicate apricot-pink buds open to pale pink flowers with apricot centres all becoming soft pink over time in wide, shallow, upward-facing cups with a beautiful old rose formality. Lovely myrrh fragrance.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Light pink with apricot
Fragrance Strength: Medium Myrrh Fragrance
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Very Good
Size: 5×3ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 140 petals

Strawberry Hill

An award-winning climbing rose bearing fragrant rosettes of superb quality with hardiness to zone 4

Beautiful at all stages; bearing pure rose pink, cupped rosettes of superb quality. Strong and delicious myrrh fragrance. Extremely healthy with vigorous, informal growth. Good for disease resistance. Repeat flowering. Exceptional fragrance.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Climbing Rose
Sub Type: English Leander Hybrid
Color: Rose pink with apricot
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 4×4ft or allow to grow as a climber to 8-10ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 120 petals

Englantyne

Incredibly beautiful with strong, old rose fragrance

One of the most beautiful David Austin roses. Perfectly formed, soft pink blooms with a charming, sweet Old Rose fragrance. An exceptionally healthy and reliable garden rose.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Pale pink
Fragrance Strength: Strong, Old Rose
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 5×4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 140 petals

Gentle Hermione

Perfect old rose blooms with a classic fragrance hardy to zone 4
Beautiful, pure pink blooms. Particularly resistant to rain. There is a strong, classic, Old Rose scent. Attractive, healthy growth. Good for disease resistance. Repeat flowering. Exceptional fragrance.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Shrub Rose
Color: Pink
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 4x3ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 90 petals

Heritage

Demure and beautiful pink flowers with a lovely myrrh fragrance

Bears soft pink, cupped blooms of delicate, shell-like beauty with a wonderful myrrh scent with overtones of fruit, honey and carnation. Well-rounded, bushy shrub.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Shrub Rose
Color: Soft pink
Fragrance Strength: Good Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 5x4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 70 petals

James Galway

A beautiful, nearly thornless, shade tolerant, climbing rose with romantic old world style and hardiness to zone 4

A strikingly beautiful climbing rose with warm pink rosettes packed with many, perfectly arranged petals. Delicious Old Rose fragrance. Very healthy and reliable. Almost thornless. Good for disease resistance. Repeat flowering. Ideal for shade.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Climbing Rose
Color: Warm pink
Fragrance Strength: Light-medium
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 5×3.5ft or allow to grow as a climber to 12ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 130 petals

Silas Marner

Mid pink blooms packed with petals and old rose fragrance, tolerant of part shade, hardy to zone 4

Mid pink blooms that fade to white at the petal edges with medium-strong old rose fragrance with hints of fruity lemon, green banana, and apricot. The flowers have a button eye and are packed with up to 100 petals. This repeat blooming shrub is rated as very disease resistant, part shade tolerant, and hardy to zone 4.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Pink
Fragrance Strength: Medium-strong fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Very Good
Size: 4ftx5ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 100 petals

Sceptr'd Isle

Pretty, fragrant flowers produced freely and almost continuously and hardy to zone 4

This pretty rose bears numerous, soft pink, cup-shaped flowers with clusters of yellow stamens. Powerful myrrh fragrance. Very healthy. Good for disease resistance. Repeat flowering. Highly fragrant.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Shrub Rose
Sub Type: English Musk Hybrid
Color: Soft pink
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 5x4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 45 petals

The Generous Gardener

A beautiful bush or climbing rose with highly fragrant light pink flowers and hardy to zone 4

This pretty rose bears numerous, soft pink, cup-shaped flowers with clusters of yellow stamens. Powerful myrrh fragrance. Very healthy. Good for disease resistance. Repeat flowering. Highly fragrant.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Shrub Rose
Sub Type: English Musk Hybrid
Color: Soft pink
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 5x4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 45 petals

The Albrighton Rambler

A lovely compact rambling rose to 10 feet with lightly fragrant cupped, multi-petaled pale pink flowers

A rambling rose with dense blush pink rosettes and light fragrance. ‘The Albrighton Rambler’ blooms are packed with 85 petals and considered a short rambler that can reach up to 10 feet high, so a fence or wall will be ideal for support. Tolerant of shadier sites.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Light pink
Fragrance Strength: Light fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Very Good
Size: 10ftx5ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 85 petals

Emily Bronte

Extremely beautiful with distinctive, strongly fragrant blooms

An exceptionally beautiful rose with distinctive neat, flat blooms. Each bloom is a lovely soft pink, the smaller central petals deepening to rich apricot and surrounding deep-set stamens. The strong Tea scent becomes more Old Rose, with delicious hints of lemon and grapefruit. It forms a bushy shrub with strong, healthy, upright growth. Named for the Brontë Society to celebrate the bicentenary of the novelist’s birth.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Shrub Rose
Color: Soft pink and apricot
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 4×3.5ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 106 petals

Eustacia Vye

Lovely bicolour mid pink and apricot blooms, tolerant of part shade, hardy to zone 4

Mid pink and apricot blooms with a strong fruity fragrance. The romantic old fashioned flowers are packed with 90 or more petals and are held in small clusters. Each beautifully rosetted flower opens up to 3.5 inches wide against medium green, leathery foliage. One of the few roses that can tolerate part shade and hardy to zone 4.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Pink, apricot
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 4ftx3ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 90 or more petals

The Alnwick Rose

Soft pink and apricot blooms form beautiful, fragrant cups of Old World beauty, hardy to zone 4

Dark red to dark pink buds open to gorgeous rich pink cups that soften to light pink filled with ruffles of apricot-pink petals. Medium to strong old rose fragrance with a hint of raspberry. Bushy and upright habit.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Light pink with apricot
Fragrance Strength: Medium to Strong Old Rose Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Very Good
Size: 4×3ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 120 petals

Jubilee Celebration

Unique coral-pink blooms are large with a strong, fruity fragrance

A gorgeous coral-pink rose with large, pink cups surrounding heavily ruffled centres in coral and apricot with hints of gold on the petal undersides. Strong, fruity fragrance with hints of fresh lemon and raspberry. One of the most fragrant cultivars.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Shrub Rose
Color: Coral pink
Fragrance Strength: Strong, Fruity Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 4×4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 90 petals

Abraham Darby

Large, deeply cupped blooms with a rich fruity fragrance

Large, deeply cupped blooms in shades of pink, apricot and yellow. Rich, fruity fragrance has a refreshing sharpness. Repeats well.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Shrub Rose
Color: Apricot
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Average. Performs best in hot sunny spots or climates.
Size: 5x5ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 70 Petals

Evelyn

Gorgeous apricot flowers with a strong, fruity fragrance

‘Evelyn’ is better suited to the warmer climates or warm, sunny microclimates in the garden. The blooms are particularly large and most attractive, the petals being beautifully arranged. The color is a glorious soft apricot, sometimes tinged with soft pink. It has few thorns. It has a wonderful fragrance, which is similar in style to an Old Rose, but with a sumptuous fruity note reminiscent of fresh peaches and apricot.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Apricot pink
Fragrance Strength: Strong, Fruity
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Height: 5×3ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 100 petals

Grace

An outstanding garden plant bearing neat and fragrant rosettes

Glorious, neatly formed rosettes of a lovely apricot-orange with a strong, fruity fragrance. A well-rounded, slightly arching growth. Repeat flowering. Highly fragrant. Ideal for shade.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Shrub Rose
Color: Apricot
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 4x4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 80 petals

Port Sunlight

An excellent, reliable rose with very fragrant rosette blooms

A charming rose with deep apricot, rosette-shaped blooms. There is a strong rich tea fragrance. An excellent and reliable variety. Repeat flowering. Highly fragrant. Ideal for pots and containers.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Shrub Rose
Sub Type: English Musk Hybrid
Color: Rich apricot
Fragrance Strength: Light-medium
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 5x4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 90 petals

Bathsheba

Large, many petalled apricot blooms. Superb myrrh fragrance with floral and honey character

A vigorous repeat-flowering short climber, bearing many petalled rosettes. The blooms are a beautiful blend of colours, giving the overall impression of rich apricot. They have a superb myrrh fragrance – floral and warm in character, with hints of honey.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Climbing Rose
Sub Type: English Leander Hybrid
Color: Rich apricot
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 10ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 170 petals

The Lady Gardener

Large, luscious apricot-orange and deep apricot-yellow flowers with lovely tea fragrance

Large, old world flowers forming four inch cups each divided inside the cups into four quarters of ruffled beauty. The flowers are apricot-orange to apricot-yellow with the outer petals paling at the edges to white. Lovely tea fragrance with hints of cedar wood and vanilla.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Climbing Rose
Sub Type: English Leander Hybrid
Color: Apricot and yellow
Fragrance Strength: Medium Tea Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 4.5×4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 65 petals

Carding Mill

Large, deeply cupped blooms with a rich fruity fragrance

Large blooms in shades of pink, apricot and yellow. Strong, beautiful myrrh fragrance. Repeats well.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Shrub Rose
Sub Type: English Leander Hybrid
Color: Apricot
Fragrance Strength: Medium Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 4×3.5ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 80 petals

Summer Song

A unique colour among the David Austin cultivars with burnt orange flowers and strong tea fragrance

Striking orange-red blooms with strong tea fragrance. The burnt orange tones of the flowers packed with 80 petals against dark green foliage and the wonderful fragrance make this a show-stopper.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Burnt orange
Fragrance Strength: Strong fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Very Good
Size: 4ftx4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 80 petals

Lady of Shallot

A striking rose, as well as one of our hardiest and most reliable to zone 4

Striking apricot-yellow, chalice-shaped blooms. Healthy with vigorous, bushy growth. Ideal for inexperienced gardeners. Repeat flowering. Good disease resistance. Ideal for poor soil. Grow as a shrub or a short climber.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Sub Type: English Leander Hybrid
Color: Orange yellow aging to outer pink petals
Fragrance Strength: Medium Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 5×4ft or allow to grow as a climber to 8ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 60 petals

Roald Dahl

Lovely peach and apricot blooms from red buds with tea fragrance, part shade tolerant

Peachy, apricot blooms with medium tea fragrance. The beautiful cupped flowers emerge from red buds and are packed with 40 or more petals. This repeat blooming shrub is rated very disease resistant and can be shade tolerant to boot.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Peach
Fragrance Strength: Medium fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Very Good
Size: 3ftx4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 40 petals

William Morris

A short climber with apricot-pink flowers and a strong tea and fruity fragrance

Cupped, loose petalled, rosette-shaped flowers in a lovely glowing shade of apricot-pink, paling slightly on the outside of the petals. Strong fragrance with elements of tea and fruit and good repeat flowering on vigorous plants. Reliable with good disease resistance. Nearly thornless.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose or Short Climber
Color: Apricot pink
Fragrance Strength: Strong, Fruity/tea
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Height: 5×4ft or grow as a climber to 8ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 40+ petals

Crocus Rose (syn. Emanuel)

A beautiful cultivar with ever changing colours of lightest apricot, cream, and yellow

Very free-flowering with large flowers that emerge with creamy yellow centres and pale apricot outer petals providing a blushed pink look in the garden. The apricot slowly fades to creamy white as the yellow deepens and then lightens with age, the show having now changed to a show of white and yellow. Blooms held in large clusters on elegant, arching stems. Bushy, well-rounded shrub.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Apricot aging to creamy white around yellow centres
Fragrance Strength: Light Tea Fragrance
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Height: 4×4ft or grow as a climber to 8ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 110 petals

Golden Celebration

Stunning golden yellow flowers are some of the largest of any English style rose

Very large, rich golden yellow blooms form giant cups with a strong tea fragrance with notes of Sauterne dessert wine, citrus, lychee, and strawberries. Lush foliage. Elegant arching stems hold the flowers perfectly poised. One of the finest English style roses.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Golden yellow
Fragrance Strength: Strong Tea/Fruity Fragrance
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Height: 5×5ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 55-75 petals

Molineux

A multi award winner, flowering with exceptional continuity

A healthy variety, which produces rich yellow blooms with exceptional freedom and continuity. There is a delicious musky tea rose scent. Good disease resistance. Ideal for poor soil.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Sub Type: English Musk Hybrid
Color: Rich yellow
Fragrance Strength: Light to Medium Fragrance
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Height: 6×5ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 120 petals

Crown Princess Margareta

Neatly arranged rosettes with a strong fruity fragrance

Glorious, neatly formed rosettes of a lovely apricot-orange with a strong, fruity fragrance. A well-rounded, slightly arching growth. Repeat flowering. Highly fragrant. Ideal for shade.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Climbing Rose
Sub Type: English Leander Hybrid
Color: Apricot
Fragrance Strength: Medium Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Height: 9-12ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 120 petals

Graham Thomas

A spectacular climbing rose voted the World’s Favourite Rose

An award-winning climbing rose with cupped blooms in an unusually rich shade of yellow. Lovely fresh tea fragrance with hints of violets. Upright, bushy and vigorous growth. Repeat flowering. Highly fragrant.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Climbing Rose
Color: Yellow
Fragrance Strength: Light Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Height: 12ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11

Teasing Georgia

A climbing rose of great beauty with delicious tea fragrance

A climbing rose of great beauty with rich yellow, rosette-shaped blooms. Lovely, strong tea fragrance. Very reliable, extremely healthy and easy to grow. Repeat flowers well. Good for disease resistance. Highly fragrant.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Shrub or Climbing Rose
Color: Deep yellow
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Height: 4×3.5ft or allow to grow as a climber to 12ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 110 petals

Charlotte

One of the most beautiful yellow English Roses

One of our most beautiful yellow roses with exquisite cup-shaped flowers. Pleasant tea fragrance. Attractive bushy growth. Excellent repeat-flowering. Good for disease resistance. Repeat flowering. Highly fragrant.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Shrub Rose
Sub Type: English Musk Hybrid
Color: Rich yellow
Fragrance Strength: Light to Medium Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Height: 4x3ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 100 petals

The Poet's Wife

Cheerful glowing yellow flowers with white outer petals and a strong, fruity fragrance, hardy to zone 4

A beautiful rich lemon yellow rose with informal cups of pale petals surrounding ruffled yellow centres. Wonderfully strong, fruity fragrance with hints of lemon that becomes sweeter and stronger as the flowers age. Nice bushy rounded shrubs with shiny foliage on arching branches.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Rich yellow
Fragrance Strength: Strong, Fruity Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Height: 4x4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 77 petals

Charles Darwin

Large, cupped blooms with a strong, delicious fragrance

Large, yellow, cupped blooms with a strong and delicious fragrance. Attractive, bushy growth. Vigorous and disease resistant. Repeat flowering. Exceptional fragrance.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Shrub Rose
Sub Type: English Leander Hybrid
Color: Rich lemon yellow
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Height: 4.5x5ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 140 petals

The Pilgrim

A beautiful bush or short climber with a strong, delicious fragrance

Large, perfectly formed, soft yellow rosettes produced freely. Delicious mixed fragrance of tea rose and myrrh. Very healthy and reliable with attractive, bushy growth. Repeat flowering. Highly fragrant. Ideal for shade.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Climbing Rose
Sub Type: English Musk Hybrid
Color: Soft yellow
Fragrance Strength: Medium Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Height: 4x3ft or grow as a climber to 8-12ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 140 petals

Vanessa Bell

A beautiful bush or short climber with a strong, delicious fragrance

Pink-tinged buds open to medium-sized cups held in large clusters. Pale yellow, paling to white at the edges; each with a rich yellow eye. The fragrance is similar to green tea with aspects of lemon and honey. It forms a bushy, upright shrub. Named for the artist, designer and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of the writer, Virginia Woolf.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Sub Type: English Musk Hybrid
Color: Pale yellow
Fragrance Strength: Medium to Strong Tea Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Height: 4x3ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: Medium

Imogen

Relaxed, informal flowers in pale yellow with a fruity fragrance 

Pale yellow blooms with light to medium fruity fragrance. It has loosely packed flowers with 25-40 ruffled petals. The flowers form in large clusters with a button eye of darker yellow on glossy green foliage.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Pale yellow
Fragrance Strength: Light to medium fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 3ftx3ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 40 petals

Malvern Hills

Masses of creamy white and pale yellow flowers climbing up to 15 feet

A rambling rose bearing creamy white and pale yellow flowers with medium musk fragrance. Blooms are packed with 40 petals and can climb up to 15 feet high. Provide strong support such as a wall or large arch to support this vigorous rose. It is also tolerant of a shadier spot and boasts medium musky fragrance.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Rambling Rose
Color: Pale yellow, white
Fragrance Strength: Medium fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 15ftx6ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 40 petals

Fair Bianca

A compact beauty with cupped, ivory white, strongly scented blooms

Romantic, cupped, double blooms in elegant white with a warm cream centre exude a strong old rose myrrh fragrance. The compact habit makes it great in containers. An early David Austin introduction, disease resistance is not as good as later cultivars but the the compact size, great fragrance, and large, repeat blooms make it worthwhile, especially in small spaces with heat, sun and good air circulation.
ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: Compact Shrub
Color: White
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Average
Height: 2.5×2.5ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11, possibly hardy to zone 4
Petal Count: 60 petals

Lichfield Angel

Pale peachy buds open to cream flowers hardy to zone 4

Pale peachy pink buds gradually open to form neatly cupped, cream rosettes. Each bloom has a perfect ring of waxy petals enclosing numerous smaller petals. Eventually the petals turn back to form a large, domed flower. It forms a vigorous, rounded, almost thornless shrub, its blooms nodding attractively on the branch.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Cream
Fragrance Strength: Light, Musk
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 5×5ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 4-11
Petal Count: 100 petals

Rose-Marie

Gorgeous, cupped, strongly fragrant double roses on nearly thornless stems

This is a white sport of ‘Heritage’ with cupped, double blooms of white to cream sometimes with a touch of pink at the centre produced repeatedly through the season with a beautiful, strong, myrrh fragrance with overtones of fruit, honey and carnation.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: White to Cream
Fragrance Strength: Very Fragrant
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 4-5×3-4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 60+ petals

Tranquility

Yellow-tinged buds open to pure white, cupped, rounded flowers

Beautifully rounded flowers, with neatly placed petals making up perfect rosettes. The buds are lightly tinged with yellow but as the flowers open they become pure white. A vigorous shrub; its growth is bushy and upright, clothed in light green foliage, curving outwards in a most attractive manner. With its pure white flowers, this rose lives up to its name.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Color: Deep crimson
Fragrance Strength: Strong, Old Rose
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 4×3.5ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 40+ petals

Claire Austin

A gorgeous, strongly fragrant bush or climbing rose

Bears large, cupped, creamy white blooms with a strong fragrance of myrrh, meadowsweet and vanilla. Vigorous and particularly healthy with elegant arching growth. Good disease resistance. Repeat flowering. Highly fragrant.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Climbing Rose
Sub Type: English Musk Hybrid
Color: Creamy white
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 4.5×4ft or allow to grow as a climber to 8-12 ft.
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 120 petals

Desdemona

Exquisitely beautiful flowers and fragrance with an exceptionally long flowering season

Pretty peachy pink buds open to reveal beautiful, pure white blooms, with an attractive hint of pink at the earliest stage of flowering.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Sub Type: English Musk Hybrid
Color: White with palest pink
Fragrance Strength: Strong Old Rose Fragrance
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Size: 4×3ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 52 petals

Winchester Cathedral

Produces masses of fragrant blooms throughout the summer, hardy to zone 4

Attractive, loose-petalled, white flowers. Delicious Old Rose fragrance with hints of honey and almond blossom. Very free-flowering.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Shrub Rose
Sub Type: English Old Rose Hybrid
Color: White with a touch of pink and palest yellow
Fragrance Strength: Medium Old Rose Fragrance
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Average
Size: 4×4ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 60 petals

Wollerton Old Hall

A beautiful climbing rose with rounded soft apricot petals fading to cream and strong fragrance

Beautiful, very rounded flowers of soft apricot fading to cream. Particularly strong fragrance. Bushy, upright growth. Extremely healthy. Repeat flowering. Exceptional fragrance. Ideal for an obelisk, fence or pergola.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Growth Type: English Climbing Rose
Sub Type: English Musk Hybrid
Color: Soft apricot fading to blush white
Fragrance Strength: Strong Fragrance
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance: Good
Size: 12ft
Suitable for zones: Zones 5-11
Petal Count: 45 petals