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Claire Austin (AUSprior)

Color: White/Cream Class: Hybrid Tea, Shrub Introduced: 2007 Best Zones: 5-11 Bloom Form: Rosette / Quartered Repeat Bloom: Yes

CLAIRE AUSTIN English Rose - bred by David Austin Shrub Rose Bears large, cupped, creamy white blooms with a strong fragrance of myrrh, meadowsweet and vanilla. Vigorous and particularly healthy with elegant arching growth.…

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Hybrid Tea, Shrub White/Cream
Breeder
David Austin
Seller
All My Thyme, Coast Farms, David Austin, Hortico, Rogue Valley Roses, Spotswood Greenery, Wildwood Nurseries, Heirloom Roses
Introduced
2007
Best Zones
5-11
12.3 ft Height
3.3 ft Width
3.5 in Bloom Size
120 Petals

Bloom Style

How It Shows Up in the Garden

Bloom Form
Rosette / Quartered
Repeat Bloom
Yes

Garden Fit

Where It Is Most Comfortable

Rose Class
Hybrid Tea, Shrub
Color Family
White/Cream

Background

Breeding and Source Notes

Seller Signals
All My Thyme, Coast Farms, David Austin

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Coast Farms
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All My Thyme
Claire Austin - OR
$66.75
Discount Code 5% • rosegeekanytime
David Austin
1-Gallon
$56.00
ARS Offer 10% • Only available with phone orders.
Rogue Valley Roses
Claire Austin Out of stock
$24.95
ARS Offer 10% • Only available with phone orders.
Out of Stock
Spotswood Greenery
#3 Pot
$84.99
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Wildwood Nurseries
Bare Root / Grafted
$79.99
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Heirloom Roses
Default Title
$67.00
Discount Code 20% • ROSELADY26

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Overview

CLAIRE AUSTIN

English Rose - bred by David Austin

Shrub Rose

Bears large, cupped, creamy white blooms with a strong fragrance of myrrh, meadowsweet and vanilla. Vigorous and particularly healthy with elegant arching growth.

  • Good for disease resistance
  • Repeat Flowering
  • Highly Fragrant
  • Highly Recommended by David Austin Roses
  • Suitable for zones 5 to 8

There is something a little special about white roses – they are all purity and light – and yet really good white roses are rare among English Roses and Hybrid Tea Roses alike. This is because white roses are very difficult to breed. ‘Claire Austin’ bears pleasingly cupped buds of a pale lemon shade which gradually open to form large, creamy white flowers of typical English Musk delicacy; their petals perfectly arranged in concentric circles, with a few more loosely arranged in the center. They have a strong fragrance based on myrrh with dashes of meadowsweet, vanilla and heliotrope. Strong and particularly healthy. Undoubtedly one of our finest white roses to date.

This vigorous, upright rose makes a very good climber in both beauty and performance. If grown against a warm wall, as we do here in the Lion Garden, it can easily reach a couple of extra feet in height.

ORIGINS

Claire Austin is David Austin’s daughter. She has a nursery which specializes in hardy plants, including the UK's finest collection of irises, peonies and day lilies.

ROSE CHARACTERISTICS

Rose Type English Rose
Growth Type Shrub Rose
Sub Type English Musk Hybrid
Colour Creamy white
Fragrance Strong Fragrance. Myrrh with dashes of meadowsweet, vanilla & heliotrope
Flowering Repeat Flowering
Disease Resistance Excellent
Height 4.5ft
Breeder David Austin
Year of Introduction 2007
Appellation Ausprior
Suitable for Zones Zones 5 - 8
Petal Count 120 petals
Patent 19465
Current Notes

There is something a little special about white roses – they are all purity and light – and yet really good white roses are rare among English Roses and Hybrid Tea Roses alike. This is because white roses are very difficult to breed. ‘Claire Austin’ bears pleasingly cupped buds of…

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