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Gertrude Jekyll®

The  apricot blend colored David Austin shrub rose named Gertrude Jekyll.
This rose's location in the garden is W 3.
This rose's location in the garden is W 3.
  • Classification: Shrub   
  • Flower Color: medium pink
  • Flower Size:  4 inches
  • Flower Form: very full, slightly flattened cup  
  • Petal Count:  80
  • Fragrance:  moderate, old-rose fragrance
  • Repeat Bloomer:  yes
  • Foliage: dark green, matte
  • Plant Height: 4-5 feet
  • Plant Width:  3.5 feet
  • Growth Habit: upright, shrubby
  • Disease Resistant: no
  • Hybridizer: David C. H. Austin (U.K.)
  • Registered: 1986 (U.K.)
  • Parentage:  ‘Wife of Bath’ x ‘Comte de Chambord’
  • ARS* Rating:  7.9 (a solid to very good rose)
    *American Rose Society Rating

Awards:
  • 1994   Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Garden of Merit Award
  • 2002  James Mason Award (Royal National Rose Society)
  • 2012  The Nation’s Favourite Rose conducted by the RHS

Notes:
  • This rose’s namesake, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), was a famous English garden designer and author.   “Through her designs, writings, and photographs, Jekyll did yeoman work to preserve the art of the cottage garden and to save old-fashioned plants from oblivion.  She was no slouch at flower arranging, either. ‘Bumps,’ as the architect Edwin Lutyens fondly nicknamed this doyenne of Edwardian gardeners, endures in the roses ‘Miss Jekyll’, a white rambler, and ‘Gertrude Jekyll’, a David Austin shrub with intensely perfumed deep pink flowers.”  ---  Brenner & Scanniello, (A Rose By Any Name, page 66).
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