Rosa Port Sunlight - English Shrub Rose

English Rose Port Sunlight is a reliable variety, repeat flowering and vigorous. It produces medium-sized flowers, exuding a rich tea fragrance, of an intense apricot colour, gradually lightening to a pale apricot on the outer part of the corolla. The foliage is healthy and highly resistant to diseases. It is of medium size, suitable for the back of perennial borders and easily integrates into a flowering hedge.

This rather upright rose bush reaches a height of 1.50m (5ft) with a spread of about 1m (3ft), growing rapidly. Its foliage and young vigorous shoots emerge as bronze-red before turning a fairly dark green. It is remarkably healthy.

This rose forms a large bush, ideal for creating a backdrop, at the back of perennial borders or with light annuals such as gypsophila, phlox or love-in-a-mist. It tolerates competition from the roots of other plants, which allows it to be planted in a flower shrub border or even a landscaped hedge. It will be beautifully showcased in front of a boxwood or yew screen, or, alternatively, surrounded by a miniature hedge, as seen in Italian or French gardens. If you have enough space, English, Old or Shrub Roses are magnificent when planted in groups of three. They will grow together to form a single opulent bush that will bloom even more generously.

This variety is named after the miniature village built by William Hesketh Lever in the Wirral, where you can admire a magnificent English Rose garden.

English Roses are well known for being repeat flowering and their flowers are renowned for being beautiful, rosettes with a strong fragrance.

Bred by David Austin in 2007.