Rosa Heritage

The English Rose 'Heritage' is a David Austin creation, flowering and highly recurrent, full of charm and romance. This beautiful bush has delicate flowers on its bushy growth, with a soft, slightly globular, double cup shape, pale pink in colour fading to white on the edges of the flowers. They emit a delicious fruity and sweet fragrance, with notes of honey and carnation over a myrrh base. It is perfect in a flowerbed or in a small hedge, alongside other English or old-fashioned roses.

This 'Heritage' Rose belongs to the group of English Roses, a term coined by David Austin himself. These roses are obtained by crossing an old-fashioned rose (gallica, bourbon, etc.) with a Hybrid Tea or a Floribunda. English Roses are well-known for being highly recurrent and their flowers are renowned for their beautiful, regular rosette shape and strong scent.

'Heritage' is a tall bush rose that forms a beautiful, free-standing, dense and balanced bush, averaging 1.10 m (4ft) in all directions. Its growth is rapid and vigorous, and its sturdy stems are covered with beautiful dark green foliage that is not very susceptible to diseases under proper growing conditions. On this highly recurrent bush, the pretty, rounded pink buds open gradually to form a slightly rounded, double cup flower, 9 cm (4in) wide, composed of numerous petals. Those in the centre are tightly packed and true pink in colour, while those on the edges, in the shape of shells, quickly evolve to a very pale, white-pink colour. Their intoxicating fragrance is very pronounced.

The 'Heritage' rose is a must-have in a romantic garden, both for the abundance and duration of its flowering and the fragrance of its flowers. It forms a charming bush at the back of flowerbeds or in front of large evergreen shrubs. It can also be mixed with flowering shrubs (buddleias, lilacs, spireas, deutzias, mock orange, kolkwitzias), near the house or, on the contrary, at the back of the garden, or even in a flowering hedge. In mixed borders, it will accompany perennial plants (nepeta, delphinium, foxgloves, perennial or shrubby salvias), bringing exuberance and fragrance, as well as light annuals and even grasses, whose clump foliage will hide its sometimes naked base. It can also be associated with a clematis, as they love to crawl through bushes, which provide them with a sturdy framework to cling to and the beneficial shade at their base.

English Rose hybrid of Musk Rose, David Austin creation 1984.