• R. Rugosa Alba
  • R. Rugosa Alba
  • R. Rugosa Alba
  • R. Rugosa Alba
  • R. Rugosa Alba
Best For Fragrance
  • R. Rugosa Alba
  • R. Rugosa Alba
  • R. Rugosa Alba
  • R. Rugosa Alba
  • R. Rugosa Alba

R. Rugosa Alba

Rugosa Rose

Best For Fragrance

Colour: White
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Fragrance: Strong, Old Rose
Size: Very Large Shrub 150cm 150cm
Bloom Size: Medium

Single, white flowers of silky texture with a strong Old Rose fragrance. These are quickly followed by exceptionally large, orange-red hips that ripen together with the last of its blooms. It forms a vigorous, spreading shrub. Read more

Mixed Border

Rose Hedges

Shady Areas

Attracting Bees

Rose Hips

Wild Areas

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Description

Single, white flowers of silky texture with a strong Old Rose fragrance. These are quickly followed by exceptionally large, orange-red hips that ripen together with the last of its blooms. It forms a vigorous, spreading shrub.

Characteristics

Colour: White BLOOM COLOUR Colour may vary depending on growing conditions. Colour fade is a characteristic of some varieties.
Flowering: Repeat Flowering REPEAT or ONCE FLOWERING? REPEAT FLOWERING roses flower in flushes from late spring through to early winter. ONCE FLOWERING roses only produce a single flush of blooms lasting 3 to 4 weeks in mid summer
Fragrance: Strong, Old Rose
Bloom Size: Medium BLOOM SIZE GUIDE Bloom size varies over the life cycle of each bloom. Measurements refer to the average diameter of a bloom at its prime. LARGE BLOOM: 3.5-5" MEDIUM BLOOM: 2-3.5" SMALL BLOOM 1-2"
Family: Rugosa Rose
Size: Very Large Shrub SIZE GUIDE All measurements are approximate 'height x width' and refer to a 3 year old established rose, pruned once annually, measured during the first flush of flowers in June. 150cm 150cm
Year of Introduction: 1899

Ideal For

Mixed Border
Rose Hedges
Shady Areas
Attracting Bees
Rose Hips
Wild Areas

Growing Conditions

North, East, South, West Facing
All soil types
Full Sunlight
Partial Sunlight

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Rugosa Roses

These large shrubs are hybrids of R. rugosa and various garden roses. They are generally very beautiful and fragrant; their blooms varying from single to fully double. Most varieties are repeat-flowering and some bear large hips in the autumn. Rugosas are extremely hardy and disease resistant, and will thrive in poor sandy soils and coastal areas - even growing on sand dunes. They are usually very thorny; ideal for creating impenetrable hedges.

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The Story of

DAvid austin roses

In the early 1950s David Austin set out to create a more beautiful rose. Sixty years on, this simple objective remains at the heart of what we do. From one man's vision David Austin Roses has gone on to breed a collection of roses renowned across the world.

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