Rosa 'William Shakespeare 2000' - English Rose

The Rosier 'William Shakespeare 2000' expresses in its crimson velvet dress all the dramatic intensity conveyed by the work of the eponymous English writer, poet, and playwright. Forming a bush full of strength, elegant, with a slightly upright regular habit, it produces delicious and large flowers in quarters, intense red when they bloom, gradually taking on equally intense purplish hues over the days. The scent of these large roses is that of dark flowers: intense, warm, sweet, typical of old roses. The reliable rose has excellent disease resistance and blooms in successive waves from summer until October. 

'William Shakespeare 2000' 'Ausromeo' is an English rose that stands out for the size, colour, and fragrance of its 12 cm (5in) diameter flowers, gathered in loose corymbs and produced abundantly from June until the frost. This variety has an upright, harmonious growth habit, bending gracefully outward at the top to form a bush with a regular habit, 1.10 m (4ft) tall and 80-90cm (32-35in) wide. It is a healthy, elegant, and floriferous rose. Its foliage is rather broad: the leaves have five to seven elliptical-ovate leaflets, and their colour is a fairly dark green, satin on the upper side and more cottony on the lower side. Its stems are armed with some thorns; they are quite resistant and do not require staking. The fragrance of the flowers is intense, with notes of myrrh and honey, and their colour is a deep, velvety, crimson red when they bloom, taking on more violet hues when fully ripe. When they bloom in a deep cup shape, the Rose opens into a flatter cup, organised in quarters. 

The English rose 'William Shakespeare 2000', theatrical and nostalgic, evokes the splendour of a bygone era and hides the strength of old roses under its generous red blooms. Like other English roses, it can be planted in a mixed flower bed, with perennials or annuals with light flowering. It is a reliable value in the garden that can, according to preferences, integrate into a small hedge, stand out on the short grass meadow of a small garden, or even in a very large pot on the terrace. Its roses last long, both on the bush and in a vase.

This Rose belongs to the English Rose family, a term coined by the breeder David Austin himself. These Roses are obtained by cross-breeding an old rose (gallica, bourbon, etc.) with a Hybrid Tea or a Floribunda. English Roses are well known for being highly repeat-flowering, and their flowers are renowned for being beautiful, well-formed, and highly fragrant rosettes.

Bred by David Austin in 2000.