Rosa 'MORNING MIST' shrub rose (David Austin)

THIS VARIETY HAS BEEN RETIRED BY DAVID AUSTIN, NO LONGER IN PRODUCTION.

Morning Mist is a striking shrub rose variety with large, truly single flowers. The colour is deep pink in the bud, opening to deep salmon-pink with yellow at the centre. Each flower has a large, complementary boss of prominent red stamens with golden anthers. It is repeat--flowering but also bears a superb crop of large orange hips through the winter. There is a light clove and musk fragrance. ‘Morning Mist’ will form a bushy, very healthy shrub. Its vigorous growth makes this an excellent choice for the back of a border or for wilder or more informal areas of the garden.

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 need 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: 04-02-2015.