Rosa Anne Boleyn - David Austin shrub rose

Rosa Anne Boleyn is a shrub rose with particularly generous flowering, offering a profusion of double and perfect rosettes in a warm and soft pink, gathered in large bouquets on a dense, trailing, disease-resistant bush. This flowering is also perpetual from summer to autumn and discreetly fragrant. This lovely variety can be used as a foreground shrub, as a ground cover rose or even in a large pot to decorate the terrace or balcony.

This particularly floriferous bush produces long gracefully arched branches, covered with disease-resistant foliage. This characteristic proves to be an advantage when integrating it into natural-looking flower beds, as it gives it a lot of flexibility and versatility. It is vigorous and fast-growing, capable of covering an area of more than 1 m² (11 in²) in just a few seasons. Anne Boleyn 'Ausecret' blooms abundantly and perpetually from summer to frost. Its flowers are quite short-lived, with a discreet musky rose fragrance. Its flowers are quite flat, very double and composed of many petals arranged in a rosette. The centre of the flower is a deepish pink salmon, while the edge is a very tender, fresher pink.

The Anne Boleyn rose, with the typical charm of English roses, is well-suited for romantic spots in the garden, with annual delphiniums or irises for example. It will also bring a flowery touch to perennial flower beds, and can thrive in a large pot where its silhouette gracefully trails. It will also work well on the slope of bank, with catmints, a true ground cover rose like pure white 'Opalia', or salmon pink 'Calizia'. Finally, you can plant it in front of taller shrubs or roses, use it to fill the base of a tree or even above a wall.

English hybrid shrub rose,  David Austin 1999.