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'AUSquirk' rose Description
Photo courtesy of HonzaPM
HMF Ratings:
30 favorite votes.
Average rating:
EXCELLENT-.
ARS:
White, near white or white blend Shrub. Registration name: AUSquirk Exhibition name: Susan Williams-Ellis
Class:
Shrub. (Series: English Rose Collection)
Bloom:
Pure white. Strong, old rose fragrance. up to 135 petals. Average diameter 2.5". Medium, very full (41+ petals), in small clusters bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Pointed, ovoid buds.
Habit:
Medium, bushy, upright. Medium, matte, medium green foliage. 5 to 7 leaflets.
Height: 4' (120cm). Width: 3' (90cm).
Growing:
Can be used for beds and borders, container rose, garden or hedge. Very hardy. Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.
Patents:
European Union - Application No: 2010/2154 on 13 Oct 2010 United States - Patent No: PP 23,395 on 19 Feb 2013 VIEW USPTO PATENTApplication No: 13/065,126 on 13 Oct 2010 Inventors: Austin; David C. H. (Wolverhampton, GB)
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of shrub rose plant named ‘AUSquirk’, which was originated as a sport of the ‘AUStilly’ variety of Rosa hybrida....In the summer of 2005, on the nursery at David Austin Roses Limited in Albrighton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, on plant of the Rosa hybrida cv. ‘AUStilly’ grew a stem bearing one white flower. This flower was removed and propagated using the T-budding method onto a Rosa dumetorum ‘Laxa’ rootstock.
Notes:
Named after Susan Williams Ellis the designer who, together with her husband Euan Cooper-Willis, founded Portmeirion Pottery. Susan was a great enthusiast of the English Roses and painted some beautiful water colours of them.
Registration with the American Rose society indicates the lineage includes a cross of seedling x seedling. While the David Austin, Ltd. website describes the rose as a sport of Austin's rose 'Mayflower' (see REFERENCES)
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