Rosa 'AUSkeppy' GRACE® hybrid tea shrub rose / English rose (AUSTIN)

GRACE® is an anglická růže by David Austin from 2001, named to celebrate all English roses and their key characteristics. It is a hybrid tea rose with fully double, 7-8 cm wide, pleasantly fragrant, apricot orange flowers, deeper in the centre, lighter towards the margins. There are up to 80 petals composed in a double-dahlia-like shape. It blooms repeatedly from June until October and forms rather a well-branched shrub about one meter tall and wide. Deciduous leaves are medium to dark green, matte, and disease resistant. This rose is very hardy (down to abt. -29 °C – USDA zone 5), and suitable for pots.

Planting instructions: Prepare a hole of size 30x30 cm. Put your rose in the way that the grafting point is 3 cm deep in the soil. Water well and cover new shoots with soil or bark mulch about 15 cm high. Roses tolerate wide range of soils but thrive in deep, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, in full sun.

Pruning: English roses don’t require hard pruning like tea hybrids. Just cut last year’s growth by one third to maximum one half in the spring (after frosts) to achieve desired shape, and strong and reliable framework. Cutting it back to 3-5 live buds is possible for re-juvenating. To support extra flowering during the season remove twigs past blossom: cut them off the first leaf with 5 leaflets. Mulch well before winter, preferably with leaf-mould.

Last update: 23-03-2021