Rosa The Country Parson - shrub rose

The Country Parson is an English rose created in 2020 by David Austin. It offers deliciously scented, quite flat roses in a pure and gentle yellow, translucent at the edges on a medium-sized, rounded bush. They bloom in generous clusters with a fruity fragrance, delivering notes of sweet apricot, green apple, and honey. This floriferous variety integrates well in mixed borders as well as in flower beds or hedges.

The Country Parson shrub rose reaches approximately 1.10 m (4ft) in all directions at maturity. It develops thorny stems adorned with beautiful grey-green foliage, which is disease-resistant under good growing conditions. It blooms abundantly and perpetually from June until the first frost with a medium-intensity fragrance. Its 9 to 11 cm (4in) wide roses are open and almost flat, pure yellow at the centre of the flower, while the edges appear translucent and full of light.

The Country Parson Rose is bushy and fairly compact, ideal for shrub beds, borders, and small flowering hedges. It forms beautiful compositions with small bushes, summer perennials and creeping annuals, in a romantic-inspired garden or a cottage garden. Plant groups of Alliums, vertical perennials like Foxgloves or Linarias, Phlox or Delphiniums, which are more robust, with perennial geraniums or Nepetas at the base. Add some airy plants like Thalictrums or gypsophila and some grasses. Small annual climbing plants like Sweet Peas or perennial ones like small herbaceous clematis are a floriferous addition that can beautifully accompany this rose.