Rosa Bishop’s Castle (English Rose)

Very robust and healthy, David Austin English Rose Bishop’s Castle (Ausbecks) is a repeat-flowering rose featuring profuse blooms of rich raspberry pink that pale as the flowers mature. The flowers are shallowly cupped and fully double (80 petals) with a central button eye. They offer a nice contrast with the glossy, leathery, deep green foliage and exude a very good ‘Old Rose’ fragrance. Abundantly produced over a long blooming season, ‘Bishop’s Castle’ forms a versatile and very attractive rounded shrub (introduced by David Austin in 2007).

• Blooming in flushes from late spring to fall, this rose is an excellent repeat bloomer
• Grows up to 4 feet tall (120 cm) and 3 feet across (90 cm).
• Featuring a lovely, neat, rounded and bushy habit, this ravishing rose bush is a superb addition to beds and borders, planted with roses or other shrubs and perennials. Vigorous, it would also make an excellent choice in terms of flowering hedge. Plant it where you will be able to enjoy its perfume daily: near a doorway, along a path, near your patio or deck. Excellent cut flowers.
• Best grown in full sun in rich, fertile, well-drained soils with adequate moisture.
• This rose was named after the small town ‘Bishop’s Castle’ whose castle was built in 1087 to protect the English border.

David Austin’s English Roses combine the flower forms and perfume of Old Roses with the color range and repeat-flowering habits of modern roses. As Rose breeder, David Austin’s achievement is in marrying the romantic “English Rose” look with reliable garden performance, vigorous growth, full bushes, disease-resistance and prolific season-long bloom. Over 200 English Roses have been released since 1961, many of them receiving the highest rewards.