Claire Austin David Austin English Rose

Claire Austin is David Austin's daughter. She has a nursery in the UK which specializes in hardy plants, including the country's finest collection of irises, peonies and day lilies. Her rose bears pleasingly cupped buds of a pale lemon shade which gradually open to form large, creamy-white flowers with an English Musk scent.

The petals are perfectly arranged in concentric circles, with a few more loosely arranged in the centre. They have a strong fragrance based on myrrh with dashes of meadowsweet, vanilla and heliotrope. Claire Austin forms an elegant, arching shrub with plentiful, medium green foliage. Strong and particularly healthy. Undoubtedly, it is David Austin's finest white rose to date. It can be grown as a climber (up to 8 ft, 2.4 m) which makes it particularly suitable for an arch or it can be pruned to grow as a shrub (5 ft, 1.5 m).

We're very proud to have our David Austin English Roses are imported directly from their growing facilities in the United States. Mr David C.H. Austin is a world-renowned rose breeder and writer who lives in Shropshire, England. His emphasis is on breeding roses with the character and fragrance of Old Garden Roses but with the repeat-flowering ability and the wide colour range of modern roses like Hybrid Teas and Floribundas. Since its founding in 1969, he and his firm David Austin Roses in Albrighton, near Wolverhampton have introduced over 190 rose cultivars.

Cultivars have been named in honour of his family, well-known rosarians, geographical landmarks in Britain, historical events, and British writers, particularly Shakespeare and Chaucer, and their works or characters. In 2003, David Austin was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the Royal Horticultural Society for his services to horticulture and the Dean Hole Medal from the Royal National Rose Society.