A Shropshire Lad Rose: Growth Habit & Growing Tips

Key facts

Growth habit

Shrub

Flowering

Repeat-flowering

Breeder

David Austin

Listed for

United Kingdom

Overview

A Shropshire Lad is an English rose from David Austin, introduced in 1996 and grown as a shrub. Its flowers are a soft peach-pink and carry a strong scent. Expect a plant up to about 1.5 m tall and just as wide, so give it room at the back of a border. Its parentage is 'Heritage' crossed with an unnamed seedling. It gained the RHS Award of Garden Merit in 2012, and suits gardeners who want fragrance on a generous, rounded shrub.

A Shropshire Lad traits

• Peach-pink blooms with a strong fragrance
• Shrub habit reaching roughly 1.5 m in height and spread
• Bred by David Austin in Albrighton, England, in 1996
• Seed parent is the English rose 'Heritage'
• Holder of the RHS Award of Garden Merit (2012)

Good for

• Mixed and shrub borders
• Scented cut flowers
• Cottage-style planting

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A Shropshire Lad FAQ

Sowing, care and common problems

Sowing times, care and common problems are the same for every rose variety, so they are covered once in the growing guide.

• Rose growing guide
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• Types of Roses: How the Group Decides the Pruning
• Rose Problems: Black Spot, Powdery Mildew and Aphids
• How to Care for Roses: Feeding, Watering and Deadheading
• Rose Growing Calendar: What to Do in Each Season
• Overwintering Roses: Protecting the Graft and the Canes
• All 321 rose varieties

Source

Source: Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation)

The text on this page is our own summary written from the published variety record, not a copy of it.

Also listed in other countries

• Listed for United States: A Shropshire Lad

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.