Rosa A Shropshire Lad - English Rose

The English rose A Shropshire Lad is a large rose, which can be grown as a bush or a climbing plant. It perfectly embodies the romance and freshness of English roses. It blooms its  deliciously round peach-pink flowers, with shades of cream and blush, in a perfumed cloud with fruity accents. Incredibly vigorous and healthy, it also has the advantage of being relatively thornless.

This tall rose, if grown as a climber, will reach a height of 3.50 m (11ft) and a spread of 1.50 m (5ft), although it can be contained by pruning to create a large bush to a height of 1.50 m (5ft) and a width of 1.25 m (4ft). Its growth is rapid and vigorous, as is often the case with roses from the Leander Group, and its thornless stems are covered with disease-resistant foliage. On this large, repeat flowering bush, dark pink buds are accompanied by slightly incurved rosette-shaped flowers. They are a more intense peachy pink in the centre and creamy white towards the outer part of the corolla. They exude a delicious fruity fragrance, somewhat reminiscent of bananas, but still with the traditional perfume of Tea roses.

With exemplary vigour, the rose A Shropshire Lad forms a small tree that will be magnificent as a backdrop, at the back of borders. It can also be mixed with flowering shrubs (buddleias, lilacs, spireas, deutzias, mock oranges, kolwitzias), in the background of the garden. In mixed borders, it can accompany perennial plants, bringing exuberance and fragrance, as well as delicate annuals and even grasses, whose tufted foliage will conceal its naked base. It can easily be trained on an arch, a pergola, or above an entrance or gate, for example alongside a clematis,

David Austin breeding 1996. English rose from the Leander Group.