Rosa Elisabeth- English Rose

The Rose 'Elizabeth' is an English rose created in 2022 by David Austin in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II. It is a rose of superlatives: the most floriferous, fragrant, and healthy. Its large, fairly flat roses, with numerous petals, open in generous clusters of flowers in a soft pale pink, warmed by an apricot heart, then fading to a white where a hint of pink can still be seen. They exude a powerful, sweet scent of old roses with fresher lemony notes. This floriferous variety fits well both in mixed borders and hedges.

The 'Elizabeth' Rose is a sturdy, fairly wide shrub rose that, when mature, reaches about 1.40 m (5ft) in all directions. It develops thorny stems adorned with beautiful dark green foliage, relatively resistant to diseases under good growing conditions. It blooms abundantly, reblooms regularly from June until the first frosts, and offers highly fragrant flowers. Its 9 to 11 cm (4in) wide roses are open and almost flat. Their colour is a soft pink when they bloom, gradually fading to white, offering a range of pale and rosy white.

The Elizabeth Rose has a bushy and fairly compact growth habit, ideal for shrub beds, borders, and flowering hedges. It forms beautiful associations with small shrubs, summer perennials, and wandering annuals in a romantic-inspired or cottage garden. Plant clumps of Alliums, vertical perennials like Foxgloves or Linarias, Phlox or Delphiniums, which are more robust. Carpet their base with perennial geraniums or Nepetas. Add some airy plants like Thalictrums or paniculate Gypsophila and ornamental grass foliage. Small annual climbing plants like Sweet Peas or perennial herbaceous Clematis are floriferous additions of great effect.