David Austin Boscobel Rose
David Austin Rosa Boscobel

Rosa Boscobel®

£33.00

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Features

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Flowering twice a season, Rosa Boscabel® (Auscousin) is a shrub rose with a medium habit and glossy foliage. Its red buds open into large rosette shaped blooms, packed with petals that shade from dark pink to coral, creating an attractive depth of colour. Notable too is the upward facing nature of the flowers.

Please note, our roses are available to purchase all year round, so depending on the time of year your rose may either arrive in bloom or have been pruned or deadheaded appropriately for the season.

Insights

The rose is named after Boscobel House in Shropshire (near the David Austin nursery), whose original owners, the Giffords, sheltered Charles II after the Royalist defeat at the battle of Worcester in 1651. Tradition suggests the future king hid in a nearby tree, an idea that spawned the name for numerous English pubs - The Royal Oak.

Details
  • English shrub rose grown for flowers and scent
  • Flowering period: repeat, from late spring to first frost
  • Fully hardy
Planting
  • Classic plant for herbaceous border, small gardens, and containers
  • Enriched, well-drained soil
  • South, west, east facing
  • Full sun
  • Exposed or sheltered
Care

Dig a hole larger than the root ball and loosen surrounding soil, sprinkle with Mycorrhizal Fungi to promote root growth, position rose, infill and water well. Deadhead spent blooms to promote new buds. Please see our Rose pruning guide - Shrub rose

Scent

Strong myrrh fragrance with hints of hawthorn blossom, elderflower, pear and almond

Image of thorns on David Austin Rosa Boscobel

Detail of raindrops on leaf of David Austin Rosa Boscobel