Abraham Darby Rose

David Austin English Roses

Abraham Darby Rose, are apricot pink English roses. These David Austin Roses are one of his best pink variety. The cupped blossoms have a unique fragrance, and are quite hardy in the garden. This is one that I personally grow in my garden I love it It has all the qualities I look for in a rose: Nice color, good fragrance, hardy in my zone, and disease resistant. Don't you love it when you find one you like, that has it all?

Hybridizer David Austin 1985

Growth Habits A well-disiplined rounded bush grows 4-6 feet tall, and higher in warmer climates. It can get around 4ft. wide.

Foliage Lovely foliage is dark green, glossy and also disease resistant

Blooms The color is a medium warm pink to apricot, that at times are touched with golden yelow. 100-plus petals 4-5".

Fragrance The pronounced fragrance is Intense, peachy/lemon fragrance

Hardiness zone 4/5-10

Old-fashioned cupped blooms on these David Austin roses are one of the best for repeat bloom, vigor, and especially freedom of rose diseases black spot on roses. The old-fashioned blooms have over a hundred petals. This vigorous, bushy rose is a consistent performer in nearly all climates.

The Abraham Darby Rose was named for one of the founders of the Industrial Revolution.

These Shrub Roses are ideal, low maintanence roses, that are a good choice for your garden, because of their long bloom time, and great fragrance. It is one of the more hardier of the Austin roses. Mine returns year after year. (Even one in another garden) that is a bit "neglected", returns and happily blooms each year.

The constant color make this rose good for a country garden look.

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